The Life of J. M. W. Turner

Ian Warrell’s expert, amply illustrated arrangement of Walter Thornbury’s illuminating biography of England’s greatest painter, the enigmatic and intensely private J. M. W. Turner.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) is without contest England’s greatest painter – as his contemporaries were quick to admit, even when they could not understand his increasingly abstract art. Yet, despite achieving fame young, the man himself was so intensely private as to be almost unknown. Both brusque a...