European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse I lot so rep of beam by consider Turner off port att Britain s greatest artist. Turner finds a Home by the thames it Worth House and me in suss � plinth a by to Terr. By Val Austin special to stripes Magazine jigs lift i unit1, Rosc winks be on h so in a up rpm Bill i Ondon gallery Bee ame .1 professional Aill at in Early age. While still .1 boy tumor Larj n to he la his work publicly hanging water colors in thu window of his father s shop in Maiden Lane. Convent Garden London and Selling Ihm for a few shillings . At 1 5, one of his works was accepted for the Academy summer exhibition at 27 hi1 was made .1 Royal academician an exceptionally Young age fur such in Honor. At 29 lie opened his first private Rollery. And at 32 he became the a s professor of there was never any double i Bort Hii de i h w.15 ,1 tireless it r iral would venture ouf in Aji into lie Countryside tilling hundreds of sketchbooks Wilh his impressions. He is said to Hwe Lud himself pushed to the new a of a ship for several hours during 3 snowstorm not expecting to survive in order to capture the scene. Now the wide ranging works of his prolific innovative imaginative artist can be seen in a new permanent Home of their own 1 36 years after Turner 1 775 1 85 1 willed the con Unis of i Ludw to England. The Turner bequest is housed in Ift Clore gallery an Extension of the tale which was funded with the help of a Grant from the Core foundation. Ii was designed by one of Britain s Foremost architects Imei Stirling. His previous work includes the museum in Stuttgart. The Clofe gallery shows the great variety of Turner s work from his earliest to his latest and most ribs Luck from i makes of Hannibal crossing ii Alps to 3 contemporary View of the scenes on the morn Iii after a fire he witnessed in Oxford Street Lorton. The a not of he galleries changes from peaceful views of Venice to women wandering the of Waterloo looking for their menfolk among the dead and from the sad sight of the ship Mir pulling , of the e of , being Lowed Lihe breaker s Yard to the exhilarating rain. Steam and Sperl showing a train racing Over a viaduct. Almost All of the bequest s 300 Oil paintings and a selection of the 1 9,000 Wali colors and drawings Are on show it the Clare and the National gallery loaned seven major ivors including the fighting , one of Turner s in Poriles to the f Ion Enlil october Lowmark i s opening. Besides the nine main rooms there ii three others Thovie Ingle Reserve collection plus study and Reading rooms. And alongside the Art the Clore Callery examines Tho Man with a room devoid cd to his life with effects including the Model ships and a nah ii used. The Early self portrait on show is a re one since he disliked having he likeness taken. He was self conscious about his . One conc Morary in Jere no y run rented that nature in endowing his mind appears to have been indifferent to his he never married although his mistress Sarah Dinky bore him to daughters and in later years became something of a Recluse. I be was the Sun of a Barber. In Mother was Denully unstable and died in in Asylum. Turner lived frugally and had amassed a Large Fortune by the Lime he died. He wanted to leave his Money to Aid impoverished painters but his Wil was overturned. He lived All his life in London Spe King Wilh a pronounced Cockney accent and residing at � number of addresses mostly close to the thames. He died in a House in what Isnow Cheyne walk beside tin thames at Chelsea and not far from the Sileos tin1 Clore. He is Iurii d in 51. Paul s Cathedral. But while keeping his base in the , a inv i mli1 , frequently Louring Britain and later i Europe Sketchbook in hand among Thi pictures on show at the Clure Are Iii Gas of Sunrise at Norham Castle in the River i Weevil near the scottish Border Ami tin 1 3th Century Crutis Abbot near i a Wales. Both Sites can be seen today. In fut Many places Turner vim i til that fiume in his works a High on the list of Imlay i turn so. In pc lie visited the Highlands and1 is Nifa in Luehrig see and i in als Cave on , which he Ina ii. La climb Minlu despite a Slinia and Rlyn Bury a Tiili he from 1 Lill. The . Us in Tsu Lily. Wales played an 6 it Pitt Mufti int Jaty 1, im7
