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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 2
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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 2 fills out the record by detailing the
artist's relationships with patrons such as Lord Egremont of
Petworth House, and such fellow Royal Academicians as the sculptor
Sir Francis Chantrey. Among the topics covered here are Turner's
love of poetry, dealings with buyers, miserliness (or otherwise),
the tailing off of his powers, and his final mysterious
metamorphosis into 'Admiral Booth'. Advised by Ruskin not to try to
'mask the dark side' of his subject, Thornbury presents a rounded
but still admiring picture of his hero.
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