color-composer

Updated: June 19, 2025

And in thus beginning Turner has placed his works above the level of prosaic painting of Nature, just as verse is placed above prose by the unanimous consent of mankind. From these simple presages of Art we may diverge and follow his development as a poet by his engravings, without ever making reference to him as a colorist. But beside being a poet, he was a great color-composer.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858