Hidden treasures at the National Gallery : a selection of studies and drawings by J M W Turner, now published for the first time : with some account of them . ced himself byexecuting plates for the magazines and mis-cellanies of that day, and with the proceedshe scoured the country, copying cathedralsand abbeys, with all the old bridges and millsand fishing villages in between, or else Stay- 71 ing by the way to bestow a five-shilling- lessonon some casual pupil. Girtin accompaniedhim, certainly on some of the excursionsaround London, and for some of these theyfound an excuse and an object
Hidden treasures at the National Gallery : a selection of studies and drawings by J M W Turner, now published for the first time : with some account of them . ced himself byexecuting plates for the magazines and mis-cellanies of that day, and with the proceedshe scoured the country, copying cathedralsand abbeys, with all the old bridges and millsand fishing villages in between, or else Stay- 71 ing by the way to bestow a five-shilling- lessonon some casual pupil. Girtin accompaniedhim, certainly on some of the excursionsaround London, and for some of these theyfound an excuse and an objective in the en-couragement of Thomas Monro. The worthydoctors history is identified with the Old Water-colour Society, and he was acute enough Jf$ - to see the genius that underlay the hopes of these two youngsters. Many a time, Turner told David Roberts once, Girtin and I have walked to Bushey and back to make drawings for good Dr. Monro at half-a-crown apiece and a supper. It was a far from tt WOP J mercenary arrangement in the older man, see- ft j|- J5*%jjf ing the slender probability of his ever living recoup himself, and the wretched prices ^urn*. ALCIPHRONS SWOON IN vignette for Moores The Epicurean and Alciphron. that ruled the water-colour market in thoseprimitive days. The suppers were given atthe doctors house in Adelphi-terrace (nextdoor to the one where Garrick haddied a few years before), and therethe young men met a group of also found a collection of master-pieces to copy, and it was here thatTurners fast-developing genius measureditself with the work of Paul Sandby andCozens ; Morland and Gainsborough andRichard Wilson ; Canaletto, Rembrandt,Claude, and Salvator Rosa. It was theperiod of his grey drawings, and hisfairylike silvery interiors. Finding that Girtinwas beating him by studies of JedburghAbbey, Turner set off for Yorkshire and the ALCIPHRON AND THE vignette for Moores The Epicurean and Alciphron. north,
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