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The Dance Lesson Claude-Joseph Vernet  
       
Keelmen Heaving Coals by Moonlight by J.M.W. Turner
J.M.W Turner, Keelmen Heaving Coals by Moonlight, 1835
Vernet died in 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution and the many social and cultural changes it would engender. While he was an artist of eighteenth-century sensibilities, his feeling for atmosphere, combined with his attention to detail, foreshadowed the romanticism of the next generation.


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