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by Martin Jefferies

The opening of Margate's Turner Contemporary art gallery is a deserved honour for one of the country's greatest ever artists.

That's according to the curator of the internationally-renowned National Gallery in London.

Dr Susan Foister described the £17 million Turner Contemporary as a "fitting" tribute to JMW Turner.

She said much of his inspiration came from the landscapes - especially the sea and the skies - around Margate.

Many of his most famous works including The Fighting Téméraire now hang in the National Gallery, in Trafalgar Square.

In the first of a week-long series of reports, KentOnline's Martin Jefferies looks back over Turner's life, from his place of birth in Covent Garden to his place of rest at St Paul's Cathedral.