WHEN TURNER REFUED £25,000 FOR HIS PICTURES.
We are told by Mr W. P. Frith in his autobiography that Turner's pictures had larely s=old until Ruskin opened the eye of the public to his morit«. A great gallery at the back of his house in Queen Anne street was filled with unsold works, now the property of the nation. Mr Munro, ot Novar. paid the painter a vi«it, when he found Turner with a heavy cold, shivering over a morspl of fire, surrounded, a^ Turner remarked himself, '"by my unsaleable things." Munro told Fiith that, after a glance round the gallery, ho offered Turner a Cheque for £25,000 for the conteuie. "Turner's light blue eyes glittered. ' After some moments' thought, he begged his visitor to go for an hour's walk and come back for an answer. Then the answer was : '•No, I won't— [ can't. I believe I'm going to die, and I intend to be buried in these two" (pointing to the "Carthapc" and "Sun Ri-ing Through Mist." which now hang near the Claudes m the National Gallery, being placed in this proximity by Turner's special iequ<-st). "So I can't; besides, I can fc be bothered. Good evening."'
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Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 66
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198WHEN TURNER REFUED £25,000 FOR HIS PICTURES. Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 66
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