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Turner
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In 1846 on of his Academy exhibits was a painting called The Angel Standing in the Sun. Turner found this passage for the Academy catalogue in the Book of Revelation:
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that
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― Standing in the Sun: A Biography of J.M.W.Turner
― Standing in the Sun: A Biography of J.M.W.Turner
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It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844)
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― Standing in the Sun: A Biography of J.M.W.Turner
― Standing in the Sun: A Biography of J.M.W.Turner
