Starting around 1835, when he was 60 years old, Turner entered the "late phase" of his life and work. Despite society's view at the time that he was on the edge of senility"it is said that Queen Victoria thought him quite mad"Turner still travelled extensively. He witnessed new cultures and social scenes, exhibited a supreme confidence in his tools, and created work that was so different from that of his contemporaries that they often didn"t know what to make of it. [3:36]