The will and its codicils were so confused that all the legal ability of England was unable to decide what Turner really wanted to be done with his money, and after years of miserable litigation, during which a large portion of it was wasted in legal expenses, a compromise was effected, in which the wishes of the parties to the suits and others concerned, including the nation and the Royal Academy, were consulted rather than the wishes of the testator: his desire to found a charity for decayed artists, the only thing upon which his mind seems to have been fixed from first to last in these puzzled documents, was over—thrown, and his next of kin, the only persons mentioned in his will whom he certainly did not mean to get a farthing, got the bulk of the property (excepting the pictures). We have no doubt it was quite right; we are very glad the nation got all the pictures and drawings, finished and unfinished, and the Royal Academy £20,000; that there are a Turner medal and a Turner Gallery, and we think that the next of kin should have had a great deal of his money: but surely the greatest fallacy of all Turner’s hope was that his will would be construed according to his intentions.
Two of his wishes with regard to himself were, however, fully carried out—his desire to be buried in St. Paul’s and the expenditure of £1,000 on his monument. His funeral was conducted with considerable pomp and ceremony, his “gifted talents,” to use his own words, “acknowledged by the many,” and many of his fellow-artists and admirers followed him to the grave; nor amongst the crowd were wanting a few old friends who in their hearts still cherished him as “dear old Turner.”
INDEX.
(The Names of Paintings and Drawings are printed in Italics.)
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Y]
Academy, Royal, School of, [15]
Academy Club, [108]
Academy, in St. Martin’s Lane, [13]
Academy, in Soho, [15]
Almanacks, drawings for, [47]
Alps at Daybreak, [113]
Apollo and Python, [67], [107]
Apuleia and Apuleius, [69], [76], [93]
Army of the Medes, [49]
Artists’ Benevolent Fund, [139]
Arundel Park, [137]
Banks of the Loire, [111]
Basire, [44]
Battle of the Nile, [49]
Bay of Baiæ, [97]
Bible, Illustrations of, Finden’s, [98], [99]
Birmingham, [33]
“Blackwood’s Magazine”, [124]
Bonneville, [53]
Booth, Mrs., [131]
Boswell’s “Antiquities”, [14]
“Britannia Depicta”, [47]
Britton, John, [22]
Burnet, John, [50]
Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, [118]
Bushey, [18], [23]
Buttermere, Lake, [41]
Byron, Illustrations to, [98]
Calais Pier, [53]
Caligula’s Palace and Bridge, [97]
Canaletti, [114]
Carthage, [70]
Carthage, Decline of, [93]
Carthage, Dido building, [93], [113]
Chantrey, [108], [109], [110], [112]
Chateau de St. Michel, [53], [54]
Chester, [33]
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, [97]
Chryses, [48]
Claude Lorrain, [50], [61], [63], [113]
Collins, Wilkie—Description of Turner, [121]
Cologne, [99], [107]
Composition, Turner’s method, [105], [106]
Constable’s Opening of Waterloo Bridge, [100]
Constable’s Whitehall Stairs, [100]
Continent, Second Tour on the, [76]
Cooke, Dispute with, [58], [101]
Letter from, [101], &c.
“Copper-plate Magazine,” drawings for, [32]
Cozens, J., [21], [26], [27], [67]
Crossing the Brook, [80], [84], [93], [94]
Crowle, Mr., early patron of Turner, [14], [16]
Danby, Mrs., [134]
Daniell, [26]
Dartmouth, [122]
Datur hora quieti, [113]
Dayes, [26], [28]
De Loutherbourg, [27], [38], [39], [49], [86]
Devonshire, Tour in, [79]
Dido and Æneas, [93]
Dragons, [70-74]
Eastlake, Sir Charles, [83]
Edridge, [15], [23], [27]
Egglestone Abbey, [94]
Egremont, Lord, [76], [108], [109], [110]
“England and Wales”, [104]
Engravings coloured at Brentford, [14]
Exeter, Turner’s visit to, [84]
Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen, [53]
“Fallacies of Hope”, [130]
Falls in Valombrè—Illustration of “Jacqueline”, [114]
Farnley, [45], [46], [108]
Fawkes, [44], [45], [76], [112]
Festival of the Vintage of Macon, [53]
Fifth Plague, [49]
Finden’s Illustrations of the Bible, [98], [99]
Fishermen at Sea, [34]
Fishermen Coming Ashore, [34], [35]
Fishing Boats in a Squall, [50]
Fonthill, drawings of, [48]
Frosty Morning, [89]
Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence, [111]
Gainsborough, [23], [24], [27], [38]
Gawthorpe, drawing of, [45]
Girtin, [15], [21], [23], [24], [26], [27], [28]
Glacier and Source of the Arvèron, [53]
Glover, [27]
Goddess of Discord, [52], [72]
Greene, Thomas (extract from Diary), [35]
Griffiths, [132], [133]
Hakewills, The, [109]
Hakewill’s “Picturesque Tour”—Illustrations to, [98], [99], [103]
Hamerton, [31], [39], [48], [104], [128]
Hammersmith, Turner’s life at, [86]
Hand Court, Turner’s Studio in, [32]
Hannibal Crossing the Alps, [66], [76]
Harbour of Dieppe, [99]
Hardinge, Lord, [133]
Hardwick, Architect, [15], [25]
Harpur, Henry, executor, [8]
Harpur, Mrs. Turner’s aunt, [8]
Harrison, employed by, [32]
Haydon, [139]
Hearne, [15], [23], [26]
Heath, C., [109]
Helvoetsluys, [100]
Henderson, Mr., [16], [26], [28]
Heysham Village, [94]
Higham, T., [94]
Hornby Castle, [64], [94]
Howard (R.A.), Portrait by, at Heston, [88]
Hunt, W., [15]
Italy, First Visit to, 92
Italy, Picturesque Tour of, Hakewill’s, [98], [99], [103]
Jason, [48], [74]
Johns, Ambrose, [83]
Jones, [108]
Letter to, [109], [112]
Juliet and her Nurse, [118], [124]
Jumièges, [116]
Kingsley, Rev. W., Notes of, [129]
Lambeth, Archbishop’s Palace at, [32]
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, Turner’s generosity to, [99]
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, death of, [111]
Lectures on perspective, [133], [138]
Leslie’s Autobiographical Recollections, [100]
Lewis, Engraver, quarrel with Turner, [57]
“Liber Studiorum”, [52], [55], [66], [89], [107]
Light-towers of the Hève, [115]
Little Devil’s Bridge, [62]
Loretto Necklace, [111]
Lowson, Newby, [22]
Maiden Lane, [10]
Malton, Thoma, [15], [20], [25]
Margate Church, early drawing of, [13]
Margate, School at, [15]
Marlow, [23]
Marshall, Mother’s maiden name, [6]
Marshall, Uncle, [8], [13]
“Mawman’s Tour”, [47]
Mayall, Mr., [132]
Mercury and Argus, [118]
Messieurs les Voyageurs on their return from Italy, [111]
Miller, T., [23]
“Modern Painters”, [124]
Monro, Dr., [15], [18], [23], [24], [25], [27], [112]
Moonlight, [34]
Morland, [27], [38]
Morning on the Coniston Fells, [41]
Munro of Novar, [118], [132]
Narcissus and Echo, [48]
Narraway, [18], [32]
National Gallery, Drawing in, [94]
Neptune’s Trident, [103]
Norham Castle, [41]
Orvieto, [110], [111]
Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, [66], [68], [69], [108]
Oxford, Pictures of, [86]
Oxford, Scene near, early drawing, [14]
Palice, Mr., Drawing Master, [15]
Pantheon, After Fire, [34]
Peace, Burial at Sea, [128]
Pearce, Miss, [83]
Peel, Sir Robert, [133]
Pembury Mill, [62]
Perspective, Professor of, [75]
Petworth, [76], [108], [109]
Phryne, [130]
Pindar, Peter, [82]
Pine, [23]
“Pocket Magazine,” drawings for, [32]
Poetry, Turner’s, [67], [68]
Porden, [15], [16]
Poussin, Nicolas, [63]
“Provincial Antiquities,” Illustrations to, 92
Pye, John, [94]
Radcliffe, Engraver, [94]
Rain, Steam, and Speed, [128]
Rawlinson’s “Turner’s Liber Studiorum”, [60]
Redcliffe Church, Bristol, [84]
Redding, Cyrus, [78], [82]
Reeve, Lovell, description of Turner when young, [31]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [25]
Richmond, [94]
“Richmondshire, Dr. Whitaker’s History of”, [94]
Rising Squall, [34]
Ritchie, Leitch, [116]
“Rivers of England”, [94], [96]
“Rivers of France”, [115], [116]
Roberts, David, [23], [133]
Rogers, Illustrations to, [99], [113], [114]
Rome, [109], [110]
Rome, from the Vatican, [97]
Rooker, [23]
Rouen Cathedral, [137]
Ruskin, J., [39], [40], [48], [61], [73], [121], [122], [124], [132]
Ruskin, J., his Collection of Turner’s Drawings, [94], [129]
Sandycombe Lodge, [85], [86], [101]
St. Vincent’s Rocks, Bristol, View near, [34]
Sandby, Paul, [23]
Sandby, Tom, [23]
School, First, at New Brentford, [13]
Scott, Sir Walter, [92], [99]
Shaw, Dr., [8]
Shipwreck, The, [50], [54]
Slave Ship, The, [129]
Smith, John Raphael, [15], [23]
Snowstorm, [128]
Society of Artists, [13]
Solus Lodge, [86]
Solway Moss, [62]
“Southern Coast”, [47], [84], [99]
Spithead, [54]
Stanfield, [120], [128]
Sun rising through Vapour, [54], [113]
Switzerland, Sketches in, [54]
Téméraire, The Fighting, [118]
Temple of Jupiter, [93]
Tenth Plague, [49]
Thomson, of Duddingstone, [92]
Tomkison, [13], [16]
Tornaro, [113]
Totnes, [94]
Townley, [45]
Trimmer (Vicar of Heston), [86], [87], [88], [91], [101], [108], [111]
Trimmer, Miss, attachment of Turner to, [89], [90]
Troyes, [137]
“Turner’s Cribs”, [85]
“Turner Gallery” in Harley Street and Queen Anne Street, [85]
“Turner and Girtin’s Picturesque Views”, [32]
Turner’s Gift, [78], [112]
Turner, Charles, engraver, quarrel with Turner, [58]
Turner, Price, uncle, [84]
Turner, Thomas Price, first cousin, [84]
Ulysses and Polyphemus, [70], [107]
Vandevelde, [28], [50]
Varley, [23], [24]
Varnishing days, [99], 108
Venice, First pictures of, [114]
Sketches in National Gallery, [114]
Venice from Madonna della Salute, [124]
Venice, later pictures of, [126]
Venus and Adonis, [52]
Vergil, [70]
Vignettes, [113]
Vision, from “Voyage of Columbus”, [114]
Wales, First Tour in, [32]
Walker, J., [32]
War, the Exile and the Rock Limpet, [130]
Warkworth Castle, [43]
Waterloo, [130]
Watts, Alaric, [23], [31]
Wedmore’s “Essay on Girtin”, [24]
Wells, W. F., [18], [55], [112]
Westminster Abbey, early drawing of, [14]
“Whalley, Parish of,” drawings for, [41]
What you Will, [97]
Wheeler, Mrs., [18]
Whitaker, Dr., [41], [44]
Wilkie, Sir D., [112], [128]
Will, Turner’s, [112], [139], [140]
Wilson, [23], [27], [38], [49]
Wolcot, Dr., [82]
Wreck of the Minotaur, [50]
Wyatt, Print Publisher, of Oxford, [86]
Wycliffe, [94]
Yorkshire, Tour in, [34], [40]