Abstract
A Final Voyage Framed by Balance and Contrast
Highlights
Considered among Britain’s greatest artists, Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner completed The Fighting Temeraire, this month’s cover image, in 1838, at the zenith of his career, and the painting was displayed at the Royal Academy in 1839
Behind the ghostly lit Temeraire, a square-rigged sailing vessel and other faintly visible ships head down the river toward the setting sun
Summary
Considered among Britain’s greatest artists, Joseph Mallord William Turner Before admission to the Royal Academy of Arts when he was 14 years old, Turner had received little formal education. Soon acknowledged as a prodigy, Turner became the youngest painter to have works featured in the Academy’s annual exhibition, and at Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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