Turner - Couverture souple

In later years Turner sappearance was far from engaging. Short, stout, and bandylegged, his hat always brushed the wrong way, his sleeves long enough to hide the smallest and dirtiest hands on record, his nose hooked and prominent, his blue-gray eyes staring, his face as red as a boiled lobster, he looked like the captain of a river steamer. A ware of his unprepossessing aspect, Turner would never have his portrait taken, although several furtive sketches were made of him. In his youth, however, he once sat for a profile drawing, and painted three likenesses of himself, the most important of which, reproduced above, shows him at about twenty-seven.
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Michael Bockemuhl (b. 1943) studied art history, philosophy and ecclesiastical history in Munich and Bochum. He qualified as a professor in 1984 at the Ruhr University, and lecturered in the history of the art of late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern age. In 1990 he was awarded a chair in the science of art, aesthetics and art education by Witten Herdecke University. His TASCHEN monographs include "Rembrandt" (1991) and "William Turner" (1991).