The Life of J. M. W. Turner - Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians - Walter Thornbury - Paperback Bog -
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
This pioneering two-volume biography (1862) explores the genius of the groundbreaking Romantic landscape and historical painter and printmaker J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). In Volume 1, the author Walter Thornbury (1828–76) traces Turner's 'art life' from cockney prodigy to Royal Academician, and creator of such masterpieces as The Fighting Temeraire.
