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Who painted it?
Who painted “The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons”?
“The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons” was painted by J. M. W. Turner.
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J. M. W. Turner: light and weather dissolving everything: blazing sunsets, storms, steam and sea mist swallowing ships and trains into swirls of colour.
Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 23 April 1775 – London, 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter and is regarded as one of the greatest British painters of the 19th century. Wikipedia
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