FILE: 09_Marly-sur-Seine_Turner.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - Marly-sur-Seine - ENGLISH ROMANTIC

DESCRIPTION: TURNER. Same subject, LATER THAT SAME YEAR as #8. This one VERY different = ABSTRACT. He was a man before his time, 100 years before Abstractionism. Trained at Royal Academy. Had disturbed life (opposite of Constable's stability). Had an insane mother, was loner, lived in squalid conditions, indifferent to luxury, cleanliness & social graces. Very wealthy. Travelled extensively.