Turner is my great favourite of all the painters here. He combines the highest poetical imagination with an exquisite feeling for all the truth and i… - Charles Robert Leslie

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Turner is my great favourite of all the painters here. He combines the highest poetical imagination with an exquisite feeling for all the truth and individuality of nature; and he has shown that the ideal, as it is called, is not the improving of Nature, but the selecting and combining objects that are most in harmony and character with each other.