Turner's Golden Visions

About this eBook

Author

Hind, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis), 1862-1927

Credits

Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues, Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.)

Language

English

LoC Class

ND: Fine Arts: Painting

Subject

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851

Category

Text

eBook-No.

56923

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56923

Release Date

April 5, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TURNER'S — GOLDEN VISIONS — BY
2. 2.C. LEWIS HIND — WITH FIFTY OF THE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS — OF TURNER REPRODUCED IN COLOUR — NOTE — PART ONE — A MEMORY: TELLS OF A BOY WHO LOVED TURNER'S 'VIEW OF ORVIETO' — THE BOY AND GOLDEN ORVIETO — THE BOY WONDERS AT TURNER'S ART LIFE — THE BOY WONDERS AT TURNER THE DUMB POET — THE BOY, HAVING BECOME A MAN, WONDERS AT THE 'INVENTORY' OF THE TURNER BEQUEST DRAWINGS — PART TWO — FROM 'FOLLY BRIDGE' TO 'CALAIS PIER' — BIRTHPLACE AND PARENTS — HE EXHIBITS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND IS DESCRIBED AS A LIGHT-HEARTED, MERRY CREATURE — THE DRAWINGS OF 'THE INGENIUS MR. TURNER' ARE STATED BY A NEWSPAPER OF THE DAY TO BE 'TINCTURED WITH TRUTH AND FIDELITY' — HIS FIRST OIL PICTURES AND EXTRACTS FROM HIS SKETCH-BOOKS — HE EXHIBITS GRANDILOQUENT 'JASON' AND A SIMPLE 'VIEW ON CLAPHAM COMMON' — THE YEAR OF 'CALAIS PIER' — PART THREE — FROM 'THE SHIPWRECK' TO AN EARLY GOLDEN VISION — HE STUDIES AN ECLIPSE AND PAINTS THE SUNSET — HE PAINTS 'THE SHIPWRECK' FOR FAME, AND BEGINS A SERIES OF 'DELIGHT STUDIES' FOR LOVE — THE CHAOS OF THE 'HESPERIDES' AND THE PEACE OF 'ABINGDON' — HE BEGINS THE 'LIBER STUDIORUM' AND EXHIBITS 'THE SUN RISING THROUGH VAPOUR' — HE WRITES P.P. AFTER HIS NAME AND PAINTS IN A GARDEN AT HAMMERSMITH — HE EXHIBITS THE GLOWING 'RIVER SCENE WITH CATTLE,' AND REFUSES TO SELL 'BLIGH SAND' — A QUIET YEAR AND AN EARLY GOLDEN VISION — PART FOUR — FROM A JOURNEY TO DEVONSHIRE TO HIS RETURN FROM ITALY — 'APOLLO KILLING THE PYTHON' AND A PICNIC — HE EXHIBITS 'HANNIBAL CROSSING THE ALPS,' SUGGESTED BY A SNOWSTORM HE HAD SEEN AT FARNLEY — HOAR FROST AT SUNRISE THAT HAS VANISHED FROM 'A FROSTY MORNING' — HE PAINTS MORE CLASSICAL PICTURES, TURNS AUTHOR, AND IS HAPPY AT SANDYCOMBE — 'A WONDERFUL YEAR' AND A TURNERIAN LOVE-LETTER — SKIES! SKIES! SKIES! — HE SELLS FIFTY WATER-COLOURS TO MR. FAWKES OF FARNLEY HALL — 'THE ABBOTSFORD TURNERS,' AND AN AUCTION PRICE OF A TURNER WATER-COLOUR — TURNER'S FIRST VISIT TO ITALY, AND AN EXHIBITION IN GROSVENOR PLACE — RETURN FROM ITALY: HE BEGINS TO SIGHT HIS MYSTICAL VISIONS — PART FIVE — FROM 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ TO 'ULYSSES DERIDING POLYPHEMUS' — HE THROWS OFF ANOTHER 'NORHAM CASTLE' AND PREPARES TO STARTLE THE WORLD WITH 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ' — 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ': A CRITIC IS CRITICAL, AND A PAINTER IS ENTHUSIASTIC — A GLANCE AT SOME OF 'THE RIVERS OF ENGLAND' AND 'HARBOURS OF ENGLAND' WATER-COLOURS — A SOMEWHAT BARREN YEAR COMMENTED ON IN A BITTER LAMENT BY RUSKIN — ANOTHER UNIMPORTANT YEAR, IN WHICH HE LEAVES TWICKENHAM — HE PAINTS THE SEA IN THE OPEN, AND SOME THAMES-SIDE PICTURES — THE YEAR WHEN CONSTABLE DESCRIBED TURNER'S VISIONS AS 'GOLDEN, GLORIOUS, AND BEAUTIFUL' — THE YEAR OF 'ULYSSES DERIDING POLYPHEMUS' — PART SIX — FROM THE 'INTERIOR AT PETWORTH' TO THE PERIOD OF THE 'UNFINISHED' OILS — HE PAINTS THE 'INTERIOR AT PETWORTH' AND MOURNS THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, AND OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE — HE TURNS HIS 'MAGIC LIMELIGHT' ON 'CALIGULA'S PALACE AND BRIDGE'; VISITS SIR WALTER SCOTT, AND MAKES HIS WILL — HE PAINTS 'CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE' AND IS JOCULAR ON VARNISHING DAY — HE PAINTS HIS FIRST 'VENICE' PICTURE AND RE-PURCHASES SOME OF HIS OWN DRAWINGS AT AUCTION — SOME OLD STORIES AND SOME AGELESS COLOUR STUDIES — PART SEVEN — FROM A CONSIDERATION OF THE 'UNFINISHED OILS TO' RAIN, STEAM AND SPEED' AND THE LAST SKETCH-BOOKS — SOME REMARKS ON THE 'UNFINISHED' OILS, AND BLACKWOOD'S ATTACK ON HIS 'VENICE' PICTURE OF THIS YEAR — THE RECEPTION OF 'JULIET AND HER NURSE' PROCLAIMS THAT TURNER IS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAVOUR WITH THE PUBLIC — 'TROUBLES BEGIN TO GATHER ABOUT HIM. NOTHING WILL GO RIGHT' — A 'NONSENSE PICTURE' OF 1838 WHICH IN 1878 FETCHED £5460 AT AUCTION — 'THE FIGHTING TÉMÉRAIRE,' AND A SEA-PIECE ON A VISITING-CARD — A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TERRIFIC 'SLAVE SHIP' AND THE MILD 'NEW MOON' — HOW TURNER DID IT? HE 'GRASPED THE HANDLE AND PLUNGED THE WHOLE DRAWING INTO A PAIL OF WATER' — 'THE SNOWSTORM' AND SOME 'FAULTLESS' WATER-COLOURS — VISIONS OF VENICE AND THE FIRST VOLUME OF 'MODERN PAINTERS' — HE EXHIBITS 'RAIN, STEAM AND SPEED,' AND TWICE TRIES TO CROSS THE ALPS ON FOOT — PICTURES OF WHALERS, AND AN ENTRY ON THE LAST PAGE OF HIS LAST SKETCH-BOOK — PART EIGHT — THE YEARS OF DECLINE—AND THE END — THE BEGINNING OF TURNER'S DECLINE, AND A 'GREY, DIM DRAWING' — HE DISAPPEARS FROM HIS OLD HAUNTS, AND IS INTERESTED IN OPTICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY — HIS LAST FOUR PICTURES PAINTED IN HIDING AT CHELSEA — THE MYSTERY OF THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE REVEALED TO HIS FRIENDS: AND HIS DEATH — PART NINE — AFTER TURNER'S DEATH TO THE OPENING OF THE TURNER GALLERY IN 1910 — VICISSITUDES OF THE TURNER BEQUEST — 1906: EXHIBITION OF THE 'UNFINISHED' TURNERS AT THE TATE GALLERY — 1908: FIFTY-TWO MORE 'UNEXHIBITED' TURNERS SHOWN AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY — 1910: THE NEW 'TURNER GALLERY' AT MILLBANK — TURNER AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY—AND CLAUDE. A LAST LOOK

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