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Turner (FREDERICK JACKSON an American)

FREDERICK JACKSON, an American educator; born in Portage, Wis., Nov. 14, 1861; was graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1884.

From 1885 to 1888 he was tutor in oratory in the university and from 1885 to 1910 professor 1910 F. J. Turner became professor TURNIP born in London, England, April 23, 1775.

Early evincing a marked predilection for art, he, in 1789, entered as a student at the Royal Academy, where he studied assiduously for three years, and produced some of his minor pictures. In 1799, he was elected A. R. A., and, in 1802, became R. A. Down to this period he was principally known as a painter in water-colors. Turning his attention to oils, he, during the next half century, exhibited more than 200 pictures, including some reproductions of nature of marvellous skill and beauty. Among his best works are: "The Wreck"; "The Old Temeraire"; "The Burial of Wilkie"; "The Death of Nelson"; "Ulysses Derid- "Venice"; "Sun ing Polyphemus"; "Crossing the Brook"; Rising "Rome"; "Rome"; "Venice"; "Sun Rising Through a Mist"; "Wreck of the Minotaur"; "Bay of Baie "; "Dido Building Carthage"; "Calais Pier," etc. Turner , who has been styled the "English Claude," combined in his works comprehension and truth to nature. As a colorist, Turner ranks among the best painters of modern times. Unsocial and peculiar in his habits -penurious indeed -Turner, in all that related to art, exhibited the most extended munificence. He bequeathed the greater bulk of his large fortune to found almshouses for the benefit of reduced artists, and left his unsold pictures-many of them among his choicest examples-to the British nation. These works, about 100 in number, form the contents of the "Turner Room," in the National Gallery , London. He died in London, Dec. 19, 1851.