. A short history of art . 2 f^ Ij ^ rt bfi c: t:! <; o crt ed M Tl W OJ r^ n ./I +- y< bJJ ;3 H of) (T cC .0 lii -*- ^S a H ? rt ^ >% O j3 ?aa. 3 EARLY BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING 489 be marked by excessive miserliness. At his death, however,it was made clear that he had been jealously working forposthumous fame. His will bequeathed his property andvast accumulation of pictures to the nation for the purposeof founding a Turner Gallery. But the document was con-fused and led to litigation, the result of which was thatthe bulk of his funded property went to his next of kin,while the nat
. A short history of art . 2 f^ Ij ^ rt bfi c: t:! <; o crt ed M Tl W OJ r^ n ./I +- y< bJJ ;3 H of) (T cC .0 lii -*- ^S a H ? rt ^ >% O j3 ?aa. 3 EARLY BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING 489 be marked by excessive miserliness. At his death, however,it was made clear that he had been jealously working forposthumous fame. His will bequeathed his property andvast accumulation of pictures to the nation for the purposeof founding a Turner Gallery. But the document was con-fused and led to litigation, the result of which was thatthe bulk of his funded property went to his next of kin,while the nation received £20,000 and all his pictures anddrawings. Turners three periods, namely, the early topo-graphical landscape, the later Claude Lorrain classical type,and the final freely personal work, which terminated in abrief period of chaotic effort, cleft by gleams of brilliantimagination, can all be studied in the National Gallery andTate Gallery. CLASSICAL REVIVAL FRANCE During the last quarter of the eighteenth century a Classicalrevival spread over Europe. It had its origin in the writingsof the German critic Winckelmann, whose studies of Gr
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