| Contents |
Admiral Booth -- The beginning -- "A pleasant good tempered youth, not fond of society" -- A bee of the same hive -- The most liberal encouragers of watercolour art -- M'lord Turner -- "W Turner called" -- Gothick -- Charitable relief -- Politics -- Adventure -- A little reptile -- Reimagined pasts -- The eye and the intellect -- The overturner -- Summertimes -- Waterloo -- Earth and heaven -- In search of the King -- Brilliance -- Industry -- Indistinct, unintelligible, unstoppable -- To please himself -- "The morning march that flashes to the sun; the feast of vultures when the day is done" -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
The extraordinary life of J.M.W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his life. A near-mythical figure in his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells the story of the man who was considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-482) and index. |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Moyle, Franny, author. Turner New York : Penguin Press, 2016 9780735220935 |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2016043479 |
| ISBN | 9780735220928 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0735220921 (hardback) |
| Standard identifier# |
40026554446 |
