Turner
Turner names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Turner FREDERICK JACKSON, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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 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"; 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.
Turner CHARLES TENNYSON, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES TENNYSON, an English poet; brother of Lord Alfred Tennyson; born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, July 4, 1808. He assumed the name of Turner by royal license, having inherited some property from his great uncle, Rev. Samuel Turner. Besides "Poems of Two Brothers," written in collaboration with Alfred, he wrote: "Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces" (1830); "Sonnets" (1864); " Small Tableaux" (1868); "Sonnets, Lyrics , and Translations" (1873); " Collected Sonnets, Old and New" (1880). He died in Cheltenham, England, April 25, 1879.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, Frederick Jackson Turner was described simply as a Wisconsin professor lately moved to Harvard; his 1893 "frontier thesis" then dominated American historical writing, but since the 1980s the "New Western History" of scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick has attacked it for treating the West as empty land and ignoring conquest, race and gender. Turner died in 1932 and was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer in 1933 for The Significance of Sections in American History. The other Turner here, J. M. W., has risen rather than fallen: the roughly 100 pictures Collier's places in the National Gallery's "Turner Room" were part of a Turner Bequest of some 300 oils and tens of thousands of drawings and watercolours, rehoused in 1987 in the purpose-built Clore Gallery at Tate Britain, and the Turner Prize, founded in 1984, has made his name a byword for new British art rather than for "truth to nature." His "Old Temeraire" was voted Britain's favourite painting in a 2005 BBC poll. Charles Tennyson Turner's sonnets, by contrast, remain where 1921 left them: a minor pleasure beside his brother's fame.
Written for this edition, 2026.