The Life of J. M. W. Turner
Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface
1. The curtain rises
2. The London of Turner's boyhood
3. The sky painter
4. Love and ambition
5. Turner's contemporaries in water and oil
6. Turner and Girtin at Dr Munro's
7. Turner's friendly rival, Girtin
8. Turner, the drawing-master
9. Rise and progress of water-colour painting in England
10. Turner in Yorkshire
11. Turner in Scotland
12. Turner's home and foreign tours
13. Turner's work for the engravers
14. Turner's art life (1)
15. The 'Liber studiorum'
16. Turner's art life (2)
17. Turner's art life: second period, 1820–35
18. The Polyphemus:
1829
19. Turner's art life, continued
20. The old Téméraire
21. Turner's art life: concluded
22. Turner's note-books and sketches
23. Turner's prices. Volume 2:
1. Turner at Petworth
2. Turner's poetry
3. Turner's friends and contemporaries
4. Turner and the Royal Academy
5. Turner's character
6. Turner at Queen Anne Street
7. The origin of several pictures
8. Turner on varnishing days
9. Mr Ruskin and the Turner critics
10. Turner as a correspondent
11. Turner's Venetian pictures
12. The business man
13. Turner and Chantrey
14. Thirst for knowledge in old age
15. The Artists' Benevolent Fund
16. Twilight
17. The Turner portraits
18. Turner's genius
Appendix.