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Turneresque, a.|-ˈɛsk| [f. the name of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), landscape painter + -esque.] Partaking of the character of the pictures of Turner.
1846Lady Trevelyan Let. 7 Oct. in J. Brown Lett. (1912) 417 It is in his boundless prodigality of thought that Turner differs from other painters, and that the more Turneresque he was..the more full of meaning every bit of his work became. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. App. xi. 369 The peculiarly Turneresque characters of the earlier pictures. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xv, A water-coloured sketch of an impossibly beautiful Italian peasant, in an impossibly Turneresque atmosphere. 1877Contemp. Rev. Feb. 351 The Turneresque splendour of sunset in a great city. So Turˈnerian a., characteristic of or resembling the work of Turner; ˈTurnerism, the manner or school of Turner; ˈTurnerize v., trans. to render Turnerian.
1851Turnerism [see Raphaelite]. 1857Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life (1858) II. 87 Her cheeks..loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work. 1889Ruskin Præterita III. ii. 90 Turnerian mist effects of morning, and Turnerian sunsets at evening. 1893W. G. Collingwood Ruskin (1911) II. i. 79 The father was more or less converted to Turnerism and lined his walls with Turner drawings. 1903Daily Chron. 3 July 3/2 ‘Blackwood’..foretold that the pictorial world would never be Turnerised. |