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 . sidue to thenext-of-kin. His long-cherished scheme, there-fore, of endowing a charity for male decayedartists living in England, came to naught ;but the nation was enriched with 362 pictures,135 finished drawings in water-colour, overseventeen hundred studies in colour, andnearly twenty thousand sketches and scrapsin every state of decay. This mass ofnational treasure would establish his fame inperpetuity even if Ruskins works and al
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 . sidue to thenext-of-kin. His long-cherished scheme, there-fore, of endowing a charity for male decayedartists living in England, came to naught ;but the nation was enriched with 362 pictures,135 finished drawings in water-colour, overseventeen hundred studies in colour, andnearly twenty thousand sketches and scrapsin every state of decay. This mass ofnational treasure would establish his fame inperpetuity even if Ruskins works and all otherpicture collections perished. But it is im-possible to forget that he was happy in find-ing an exponent of his marvellous powers,capable even during his life of forcing us toacknowledge him as the greatest landscapepainter of all time. B. P. 76 SOME CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLES OF TURNERS FINISHED WORKS On the following pages are given a number of some characteristic examples of Turnersfinished work for the purpose of comparison with the drawings and are after photographs placed at our disposal by Mr. George Allen andMessrs. H. Dixon and 77
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