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...composition first, then concentrate on light and shadow, and finally fill in the color. In time, other artists freed themselves from the necessity of drawing. Compared with Greenwich Hospital or Wheatley's Donnybrook Fair, the watercolors of Louis Thomas Francia, Peter de Wint, and the great Joseph Mallord William Turner seem to have been dipped in the atmosphere. There is no missing the cold dampness of De Wint's Cowes Castle, the warmth of Turner's Weymouth, or the misty majesty of Francia's Mousehold Heath...
According to a lady who met him in Bristol during one of his sketching trips through England, Joseph Mallord William Turner was not the sort of visitor a hostess would want to have more than once. He was "uninteresting" in manner and "slovenly" in appearance. "He is not at table polite; he would be helped, sit and lounge about, caring little for anyone but himself, or about any subject except his drawing." Turner's dedication may have been hard on those around him, but it produced some of the most delicate and influential works of art ever to come...
...pamphleteering and caricature. The talent Gainsborough showed for catching the majesty of England's landscape became Britain's prime contribution to painting in the hands of his successors: John Constable, who lavished the same care on cloud formations that Italian Renaissance masters gave the nude, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, who analyzed the tricks of light and atmosphere to produce a new, revolutionary art a whole generation ahead of the French impressionists...
When the doors of Christie's opened in London one day last week, a full-house crowd was waiting to squeeze into the auction room. Up for sale was a collection of 166 pictures, including Joseph Mallord William Turner's seascape of Helvoetsluys, the Dutch port. For the fourth time in a century, Londoners would get a chance to buy the painting that had become a legendary symbol of the rivalry between England's two greatest painters: Turner and John Constable...
When Joseph Mallord William Turner died in London a century ago, he left 200 of his oils and no fewer than 19,000 water-colors and drawings to the British nation. Last week the British Museum put 300 of the watercolors on display. The lot showed, as no single picture can, that Turner stands among the greatest artists who ever lived...