The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume 1 |
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... Turner was eighteen . The Palace drawing is inscribed , " Done by J. M. W. Turner , when a lad about sixteen or seventeen years old , " but this is evidently a mistake , as the fact of its exhibition in 1790 is well known and undisputed ...
... Turner was eighteen . The Palace drawing is inscribed , " Done by J. M. W. Turner , when a lad about sixteen or seventeen years old , " but this is evidently a mistake , as the fact of its exhibition in 1790 is well known and undisputed ...
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George Walter Thornbury. 72 THE PORTRAIT . Now Turner did not make his first tour till he was twenty - seven , yet the story comes to me from one who heard it from relations of Miss she told it . to whom Perhaps the date of the lovers ...
George Walter Thornbury. 72 THE PORTRAIT . Now Turner did not make his first tour till he was twenty - seven , yet the story comes to me from one who heard it from relations of Miss she told it . to whom Perhaps the date of the lovers ...
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... Turner's senior by thirty - three years . He became a pupil of Paul Sandby , and in 1772 he exhibited a view of Temple Bar , which was sidered meritorious . Loutherbourg was the scene- painter to Garrick at Drury - lane , and Rooker ...
... Turner's senior by thirty - three years . He became a pupil of Paul Sandby , and in 1772 he exhibited a view of Temple Bar , which was sidered meritorious . Loutherbourg was the scene- painter to Garrick at Drury - lane , and Rooker ...
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... Turner began to exhibit , the lad's own productions at Somerset House would have been quite enough to attract an exhibition - haunting amateur . His other great patron in the Adelphi - terrace , Mr. Henderson , probably heard of Turner ...
... Turner began to exhibit , the lad's own productions at Somerset House would have been quite enough to attract an exhibition - haunting amateur . His other great patron in the Adelphi - terrace , Mr. Henderson , probably heard of Turner ...
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George Walter Thornbury. 104 DAYES ' OPINION OF TURNER . long illness , in the twenty - eighth year of his age . Biography is useful to stimulate to acts of industry and virtue ; or by exhibiting the contrary , to show the fatal ...
George Walter Thornbury. 104 DAYES ' OPINION OF TURNER . long illness , in the twenty - eighth year of his age . Biography is useful to stimulate to acts of industry and virtue ; or by exhibiting the contrary , to show the fatal ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbey admirable afterwards architectural artist artist's proofs barber beautiful blue boats born Brentford Bridge Calais Carthage Castle Claude clouds Coast colour copy Cozens dark Dayes death died distance early effect England English engraver eyes father figures foreground Gallery Garden genius Girtin grey guineas Hearne hills imitation Italy J. M. W. TURNER lake landscape Liber light lived London looking Lord Loutherbourg Maiden-lane Malton Margate mezzotint mind mountain Munro never numbers once painter Palace Paul Sandby pencil perhaps Petworth picture Plague of Egypt plates portrait proofs river Rome Royal Academy ruins Ruskin sails says scene scenery Scotland Scott seen shadows ship Sir Charles Eastlake sketch-books sketches skies Somerset House studies sunset Téméraire Thames tints touch tour trees Trimmer Turner exhibited Turner painted Twickenham Ulysses Venice visited water-colour drawings yellow Yorkshire
Passagens conhecidas
Página 296 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Página 189 - Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Página 190 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high...
Página 190 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor ought of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
Página 185 - Cowdenknowes,' the pastoral valley of the Leader, and the bleak wilderness of Lammermoor. To the eastward the desolate grandeur of Hume Castle breaks the horizon, as the eye travels towards the range of the Cheviot. A few miles westward, Melrose, " like some tall rock with lichens grey...
Página 316 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility : Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Página 159 - But the most impressive scene, which formed the finale of the exhibition, was that representing the region of the fallen angels, with Satan arraying his troops on the banks of the Fiery Lake, and the rising of the Palace of Pandaemonium, as described by the pen of Milton.
Página 333 - Temeraire: so that these four ships formed as compact a tier as if they had been moored together, their heads lying all the same way. The lieutenants of the Victory...
Página 153 - Itspecullar , , v , , . ,.6 manifestation in of the Yorkshire series have the most heart in them, the most affectionate, simple, unwearied, serious finishing of truth. There is in them little seeking after effect, but a strong love of place, little exhibition of the artist's own powers...