The Life of J. M. W. Turner by Walter Thornbury - 9781108059428

The Life of J. M. W. TurnerFounded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians\nAuthor(s): Walter Thornbury\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108059428, 978-1108059428\nSynopsis\nThis pioneering two-volume biography, first published in 1862, explores the genius of the groundbreaking Romantic landscape and historical painter J. M. W. Turner [tel]. As both journalist and historian, author Walter Thornbury [tel] 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-centu.