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J.M.W Turner,
Keelmen Heaving Coals by Moonlight, 1835 |
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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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