STANDING IN THE SUN

Joseph Mallord William Turner is arguably Britain's greatest and most mysterious painter, whose range of work encompasses seascape a nd landscape, immensely powerful oil paintings and intimate watercolours. His friend and colleague C.R. Leslie remembered him thus: 'Turner was short and stout, and had a sturdy, sailor-like walk. He might be taken for the captain of a river steamboat at first gla nce/ but a second would find more in his face than belongs in any ordinary mind. There was that peculiar keenness of expression in h is eye th...[Read more]