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1) Mr. Turner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 508 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Description
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...
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