Oil Sketches from Nature: Turner and His Contemporaries

by David Blayney Brown

Drawing from the Tate Gallery's extensive collection of oil sketches, this book investigates Turner's approach to outdoor painting, and his open-air sketches. It does so in the context of works by Constable and other contemporaries of Turner.

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

David Blayney Brown (9 April 1952 - ) is senior curator of British art, 1790-1850, at Tate Britain and is responsible for the Turner Collection. His books include Turner and Byron, Turner in the Alps, The "Lucerne" Sketchbook, and Romanticism.