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 . BRISTOL CATHEDRAL (BEFORE THE NEW NAVE WAS BUILT).(An Example of Turners Earliest Work.) TURNER: THE MAN AND THE PAINTER. A Character Sketch, with many Storks and Anecdotes. utterly alone in the world from its not beingunderstood. Turner was sixty years of agewhen Ruskin met him first, and his character,never a lenient one, was set too hard to receivethe impressions of new friendships. His wasnot the gift if intimacy. But the man .vh
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 . BRISTOL CATHEDRAL (BEFORE THE NEW NAVE WAS BUILT).(An Example of Turners Earliest Work.) TURNER: THE MAN AND THE PAINTER. A Character Sketch, with many Storks and Anecdotes. utterly alone in the world from its not beingunderstood. Turner was sixty years of agewhen Ruskin met him first, and his character,never a lenient one, was set too hard to receivethe impressions of new friendships. His wasnot the gift if intimacy. But the man .vhoanalysed his art could hardly fail, even at adistance, to detect the main points of hischaracter, and the more we know of it, themore truth appears in Ruskins lack of the social sense was due, likemany of his other traits, to the hard con-ditions of his birth and upbringing, and trulythey were as uninspiring for the creation of 1great artist as the livery stables and the galli-pots were in the case of Keats. II. Turner was born on April 23, 1775—thesame day as Shakspeare, the same year asCharles Lamb — and his father was a
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