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The Life of J. M. W. Turner - Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians (Paperback)
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The Life of J. M. W. Turner - Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture, Volume 1
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This pioneering two-volume biography, first published in 1862,
explores the genius of the groundbreaking Romantic landscape and
historical painter J. M. W. Turner (1775 1851). As both journalist
and historian, author Walter Thornbury (1828 76) has a light touch,
yet he draws on a wide range of correspondence, sketchbooks,
watercolours and etchings to give a detailed picture of Turner's
artistic development and connections, and his increasingly
eccentric character. Volume 1 traces the artist's progress from
humble cockney beginnings, through youthful friendship and rivalry
with Thomas Girtin and a stint as a drawing-master, to his
establishment as a Royal Academician at the heart of the
nineteenth-century art world. Thornbury sees Turner from all
angles, covering his travels at home and abroad, his watercolour
and printmaking techniques, his love of sea and sky and colour
gradations, and even his fraught monetary dealings. The author also
fully contextualises great works like Ulysses Deriding Polythemus
and The Fighting Temeraire.
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