The Life of Jmw Turner Author:George Walter Thornbury General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: Hurst and Blackett Subjects: Art / General Art / History / General Art / European Art / Individual Artist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy... more » the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE SKY PAINTER. It is to this period of Turner's life that we may safely refer some of the many visits paid to Bristol, to a Mr. Harraway, an old friend of his father's, and a fishmonger and glue-boiler in Broadway. I like to associate that dirty and venerable old legendary city with Turner. I can see him looking at the Exchange, where the great West Indian merchants are pacing, discussing the prices of sugar and rum; in Queen-square, where the great magnates lived; at Redcliffe church, looking up at the dark sad room over the north porch where poor Chatterton wove those lies so fatal to his peace; in the Pithay, looking at the knightly escutcheons over the doors of frowsy old- clothes-shops ; on the river in a boat, hearing the nightingales in Leigh woods; on the cliffs, among the Mayflowers, looking down upon the chasm. Many of his large drawings executed at this time, and given to Mr. Harraway, are extant. They were executed at different periods, and show the various Whose niece, Miss Dart, of St. James's-square, Bristol, still has the first picture Turuer ever exhibited at Somerset House. Mr. Buskin possesses his first sketch-book. 44 DRAWING ONESELF. stages of maturity that his mind successively attained. The same family once possessed another rude and early drawing of Turner's, " Cote House, Durdham Down," the seat of Sir Henry Lippincotte, with Sir Henry, Turner himself, and old Mr. Harraway all in the foreground. Perhaps the boy had been seen dra...« less