The Fighting Temeraire

[Nearly Sane]

Watching the BBC4 programme on Turner, and that is a stonkingly brilliant painting

[Harrowby Hall]

I must find it on iPlayer.

In my personal pantheon, there are four great Englishmen of transcendent genius: William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and William Turner.

Turner is the greatest of all landscape artists and also the greatest impressionist - 50 years before the French started dabbling with impressionism.

[Nearly Sane]

I must find it on iPlayer.

In my personal pantheon, there are four great Englishmen of transcendent genius: William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and William Turner.

Turner is the greatest of all landscape artists and also the greatest impressionist - 50 years before the French started dabbling with impressionism.

Link below


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s50kn

[Gonnagle]

Dear Sane,

Thanks, got it on my to watch list, The Fighting Temeraire is a hauntingly beautiful painting.

Gonnagle.

[Harrowby Hall]

Link below


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s50kn

Many thanks.