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 . rc beingtowed upstream to her destruction. Clark-son urged it on Turner as a subject, andthe result was one of the most popular amonghis pictures. Blackwood, in a tremendousonslaught, expressly excepted this work, andthe public ear was tilled with outcries againsthis wanton tricks with paint. The loancollection of his works at (iuildhall three orfour vears ago, contained an example of had painted a glowing sunset across theri
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 . rc beingtowed upstream to her destruction. Clark-son urged it on Turner as a subject, andthe result was one of the most popular amonghis pictures. Blackwood, in a tremendousonslaught, expressly excepted this work, andthe public ear was tilled with outcries againsthis wanton tricks with paint. The loancollection of his works at (iuildhall three orfour vears ago, contained an example of had painted a glowing sunset across theriver from the Barnes road, and in a momentof mischief or inspiration (it is hard to saywhich) he conceived the idea of a dog againstthe light. Instead of painting it :n fairly, liecut it out of black paper en silhouette, andstuck it on the parapet, where it remains tothis day, a cheap disfigurement. Stantieldcomplained of the blackness of the ships sailsin the picture of Wilkies burial by night, and 76 0 f fit*, faM&n ? k^tC Ph. ilt4r~~i **** **-> /win A^«/*iI|m^ furor > HjtC Strf, tit. /UlOifiJl(/?(A£(,L (iCu ^**v ?f/itkisu, (tcl^Lj 6r**/{^. Turner brusquely retorted, If I could findanything blacker than black Id use it. Butto shield him against the arrows of criticism,imagined or real, Providence sent him JohnRuskin ; and instead of turning him from thedoor, as he had done Carlyle, he received him amiably,literature. The sequel is great and familiar TURNER AS POET . A PAGE FROMHIS NOTE BOOKS. VI. But his temper and habits were growingworse. He had no home companionnow his father was dead, and eventhen his house, in a way, was dividedagainst itself. He still had his housein Queen Anne-street, but he took anotheron the river-edge at Chelsea, near Cre-morne Gardens, and brought his goodold Margate landlady to keep it going. Withhis whimsical love of mystery in all domesticaffairs, he took her name of Booth. Hisfriends, missing him from his town house,tried to penetrate hi
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