Excerpt from Turner<br><br>When you shall have finished reading this little book you may not know what to think of Turner, the man, but do not blame the story for that, because the more closely its subject's character is studied, the more perplexing and contradictory has it ever seemed, even to those whose opportunities were the best for analyzing and comprehending it. If there is much to blame, there is also much to pity; and if sometimes even scorn is excited against the sensualist and miser, still, in the main, we must bear the highest honors due to modern art to his studio, and crown that stubborn, homely, wrong bent, yet inwardly illuminated head with wreaths of imperishable laurel.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.