. Thackerayana;. keen appreciation of the beauties of hiscontemporary artists. Years after—in 1848—when, as he says,the revolutionary storm which raged in France drove manypeaceful artists, as well as kings, ministers, tribunes, and socialistsof state for refuge to our country, an artist friend of his earlyParis life found his way to Thackerays home in London. Thiswas Monsieur Louis Marvy, in whose atelier the former had IMPRESSIONS OF TURNER. 117 passed many happy hours with the family of the French artist—inthat constant cheerfulness and sunshine, as his English friendexpressed it, which the
. Thackerayana;. keen appreciation of the beauties of hiscontemporary artists. Years after—in 1848—when, as he says,the revolutionary storm which raged in France drove manypeaceful artists, as well as kings, ministers, tribunes, and socialistsof state for refuge to our country, an artist friend of his earlyParis life found his way to Thackerays home in London. Thiswas Monsieur Louis Marvy, in whose atelier the former had IMPRESSIONS OF TURNER. 117 passed many happy hours with the family of the French artist—inthat constant cheerfulness and sunshine, as his English friendexpressed it, which the Parisian was now obliged to exchange fora dingy parlour and the fog and solitude of London. A fine andskilful landscape-painter himself, M. Marvy, while here, as ameans of earning a living, made a series of engravings after theworks of our English landscape-painters. For some of these hisfriend obtained for M. Marvy permission to take copies in thevaluable private collection of Mr. Thomas Baring. The pub-. lishers, however, would not undertake the work without a seriesof letter-press notices of each picture from Mr. Thackeray; andthe latter accordingly added some criticisms which are interestingas developing his theory of this kind of art. The artists whoseworks are engraved are Calcott, Turner, Holland, Danby, Cres-wick, Collins, Redgrave, Lee, Cattermole, W. J. Miiller, Harding,Nasmyth, Wilson, E. W. Cooke, Constable, De Wint, and Gains-borough. Of Turner he says : Many cannot comprehend thepictures themselves, but stand bewildered before those blazingwonders, those blood-red shadows, those whirling gamboge suns—awful hieroglyphics, which even the Oxford undergraduate (), Turners most faithful priest and worshipper, cannot 118 THA CKERA YANA. altogether make clear. Nay, who knows whether the prophethimself has any distinct idea of the words which break out fromhim as he sits whirling on the tripod, or of what spirits will comeup as he waves his wand and deli
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