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JOSEPH MAlLORD WILLlAM TURNER

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B""'ford on

Tbamn

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,hulling tiJilTJ in

Britain

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by GaUtk UJrTai"

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gallny

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a' bl<v:o..,b and

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Dj" in limt/""

Crossing the Brook (/815)

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'X'f"Y'/y tba! ruml England ,()ll}d .nril), k ",inllnn fiT Italy. Tt,mff

bad /.anud t. drtrQ and colour "'p"grapbjro/ ,in".,,-in tb. mid·/791J,

;;,bm N and Ginin "'"' ""rJ",ro "'g,,1m-by Tho,"", iIIollnJ

T

hc n.me of J.M.\V. T urner .. closely

as!'()c;.,ed with London·s Royal

A<=l<IClllr. Ilc l><C1me • full men~,er

when only twenty-<L~·en. neH" mi.,,-,I sJ.:,wing

at the ""nu.1 ""hil,;ti"" •. "d ",,,,<,1 as 1 member

hoth of the Cuuncil 1nd the hanging

comminee. lie e,,,n lectun:d in hndsC1pc

painting for ",,'entL"Cn rC1rS. Ah'>gL~her. Turner

sounds like • thomughly n:sp<"t:1I~e

AC"Adcmidan who could he n:lied upon to

P'''''u"" tl>< son of·bmwn gr."y· I" inting"! that

the Impressionists n:jter,,1 half a ""nlU'y bter.

Ilow<~'er. Turners fellow ,\i;::.demicians

on V.mishing Days could tell. w'y different

sto'y. V.mi.hing 1b.}'S allow,,1 exhil:oitorS to

n:touch tl><i' work bctore the ,.,nish wL·rll on.

TurnLT would .niH:. "'ml~etl: with top hat. to

.trend to """ I"1II',lIid C1m'",",' th., I,)()k,,] ·Iike

ch1<" !rcto.-e the cn:ation·. and "'t to work ·with

.11 tl>< Ilrightest pigments hc could 11r hi. h.nd.

on .. until they liter.lly bhzed with colour."

Many iu:adt"lician< lo,,l,,l :.;b.n"" ., TUr'n<T·S

'I,,,rent bd of social gru:.::. !rut to h.ng next n,

him.nd ri,k bt;ng <"I~l"'l by his ""00 was 1 littl:

they aD dn::t,k:d. ben Cr_t:tl~e. rJO Sb"lngt:r n,

criti""", ofh .. own t.ight .n:t>ty grttn·. w'" h",,,,1