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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, Watercolorist & Draftsman
1775 - 1851
Buttermere Lake - A Shower: ca 1798
Turner had visited the Lake District in 1797. This view of Buttermere could be described as an exercise in a moderate version of the Sublime. The portrait painter John Hoppner rather snootily said the picture was that of 'a timid man afraid to venture'. However, it might instead be seen as an attempt to explore the Sublime effects of stillness and grandeur, instead of more obvious sensationalism. The dark tonalities reflect the influence of Edmund Burke, who associated somber colors with the Sublime.
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