[16] Down to 1851 the Exhibition, in common parlance, always meant the Exhibition of the Royal Academy.
[17] His first exhibited oil picture, according to Mr. S. Redgrave. See “Dictionary of Artists of the English School.”
[18] According to most accounts his first exhibited oil picture.
[19] See Whitaker’s “Parish of Whalley,” vol. ii. p. 183.
[20] See also Willis’s “Current Notes” for Jan. 1852.
[21] In a letter from Andrew Caldwell to Bishop Percy, dated 14th June, 1802, printed by Nicholls in his “Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century,” vol. viii. p. 43, Turner is spoken of as beating “Loutherbourg and every other artist all to nothing.” “A painter of my acquaintance, and a good judge, declares his pencil is magic; that it is worth every landscape-painter’s while to make a pilgrimage to see and study his works. Loutherbourg, he used to think of so highly, appears now mediocre.”
[22] The names of these pictures are given as printed in the Catalogue.
[23] Rawlinson.
[24] See saying of Turner’s reported by Mr. Halstead, and printed in note in Mr. Rawlinson’s “Turner’s Liber Studiorum, Macmillan and Co., 1878,” from which excellent work most of the above information is derived.
[25] Not issued till the 10th part, or over five years from the publication of the first.