{"product_id":"the-life-of-j-m-w-turner-founded-on-letters-and-papers-furnished-by-his-friends-and-fellow-academicians-paperback-9781108059428","title":"The Life of J. M. W. Turner; Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108059428","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Life of J. M. W. Turner\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFounded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA pioneering two-volume biography (1862) exploring the genius of this Romantic landscape and historical painter, printmaker and Royal Academician.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWalter Thornbury (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108059428, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 February 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e442 pages, 3 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis pioneering two-volume biography, first published in 1862, explores the genius of the groundbreaking Romantic landscape and historical painter J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). As both journalist and historian, author Walter Thornbury (1828–76) has a light touch, yet he draws on a wide range of correspondence, sketchbooks, watercolours and etchings to give a detailed picture of Turner's artistic development and connections, and his increasingly eccentric character. Volume 1 traces the artist's progress from humble cockney beginnings, through youthful friendship and rivalry with Thomas Girtin and a stint as a drawing-master, to his establishment as a Royal Academician at the heart of the nineteenth-century art world. Thornbury sees Turner from all angles, covering his travels at home and abroad, his watercolour and printmaking techniques, his love of sea and sky and colour gradations, and even his fraught monetary dealings. The author also fully contextualises great works like Ulysses Deriding Polythemus and The Fighting Temeraire.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. The curtain rises\u003cbr\u003e 2. The London of Turner's boyhood\u003cbr\u003e 3. The sky painter\u003cbr\u003e 4. Love and ambition\u003cbr\u003e 5. Turner's contemporaries in water and oil\u003cbr\u003e 6. Turner and Girtin at Dr Munro's\u003cbr\u003e 7. Turner's friendly rival, Girtin\u003cbr\u003e 8. Turner, the drawing-master\u003cbr\u003e 9. Rise and progress of water-colour painting in England\u003cbr\u003e 10. Turner in Yorkshire\u003cbr\u003e 11. Turner in Scotland\u003cbr\u003e 12. Turner's home and foreign tours\u003cbr\u003e 13. Turner's work for the engravers\u003cbr\u003e 14. Turner's art life (1)\u003cbr\u003e 15. The 'Liber studiorum'\u003cbr\u003e 16. Turner's art life (2)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Turner's art life: second period, 1820–35\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Polyphemus: 1829\u003cbr\u003e 19. Turner's art life, continued\u003cbr\u003e 20. The old Téméraire\u003cbr\u003e 21. Turner's art life: concluded\u003cbr\u003e 22. Turner's note-books and sketches\u003cbr\u003e 23. Turner's prices.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The arts: general issues [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts: general issues\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts:%20general%20issues%20%5BAB%5D%22\"\u003eAB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266135839000,"sku":"9781108059428","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108059428i_2a22a1b2-42a0-4b7b-8d7c-3cbb85fa415e.jpg?v=1696747440","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-life-of-j-m-w-turner-founded-on-letters-and-papers-furnished-by-his-friends-and-fellow-academicians-paperback-9781108059428","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}