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Archbishop of Canterbury
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Aubrey Beardsley
Christopher Le Brun
Peter Cockroft
John Constable
André Derain
Michael Fish
William Powell Frith
Adam Hart-Davis
William Hazlitt
Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell
Siân Lloyd
Sue MacGregor
Tim Marlow
Henri Matisse
Michael Palin
Cornelia Parker
Leslie Parris
Ezra Pound
Richard Redgrave
David Roberts
John Ruskin
James Wilson

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Michael Fish
Broadcast
Meteorologist

Michael Fish on Turner

'Turner is one of the greatest British Artists of all times. His paintings have a special significance for me, not least of all for his depiction of the weather but also for the highly sentimental View of Richmond Hill and bridge, a view which is still virtually the same today.

Some of his earlier works depicted lovely vivid sunrises, sunsets, rainbows and cloud formations. I do feel, however, that some of his later ones 'went off' and weren't really meteorologically correct, often being strangely wishy-washy.'