A. J. Finberg, who catalogued the Turner Bequest, uses the painter’s own sketch-books and drawings from nature to retrace his career in stages: seven years of apprenticeship, the topographical draughtsman, the pursuit of the sublime, the sea-painter, the return to simple nature, the Liber Studiorum, and the splendour of his later success.
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