The Life of J. M. W. Turner

"The Life of J. M. W. Turner" is a fascinating biography of the seminal landscape-painter, diligently composed by Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Of all the great landscape-painters, Turner was most comprehensive in his study of nature. Always the artist rather than the naturalist though, he understood the difference between art and nature - an important characteristic often lacking from his contemporaries and brothers-in-craft. This fascinating biography of one of the most seminal landscape-paint...