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Tomkisson, the pianoforte-maker of Dean Street, Soho, who was in several ways connected with artists, and interested in art. 'The major part of my labours are now at an end, having since my arrival made an entire copy of the Transfiguration; the next was a composition of my own, of fifteen figures which created no small sensation here.
His ideas were adopted and continued by the London maker, Tomkisson, who acquired Pape's rights for this country. The iron framing in a single casting is a distinctly American invention, but proceeding, like the overstringing, from a German by birth.
Turner was tempted to exclaim now and then about his arch-critic 'He knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do. He puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended. A silver salver, engraved with heraldic devices, seen at the house of Mr. Tomkisson, the famous piano-forte-maker, is said to have first inspired the boy Turner with a love for art.
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