a. [f. the name of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), landscape painter + -ESQUE.] Partaking of the character of the pictures of Turner.
1835. Morn. Chron., 6 May, 3/3. It [Keelmen heaving in Coals by Night] has little Turneresque about it, beyond that power which gives evidence of a mind endowed with the rarest gifts of genius.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven., I. App. xi. 369. The peculiarly Turneresque characters of the earlier pictures.
1862. Miss Braddon, Lady Audley, xv. A water-coloured sketch of an impossibly beautiful Italian pensant, in an impossibly Turneresque atmosphere.
1877. Contemp. Rev., Feb., 351. The Turneresque splendour of sunset in a great city.
So Turnerian a., characteristic of or resembling the work of Turner; Turnerism, the manner or school of Turner; Turnerize v., trans. to render Turnerian.
1847. Daily News, 6 April, 3/6. The savages in the fore-ground give an air of reality to the scene, though the rest of the picture tends rather to the Turnerian.
1848. Berrow’s Worcester Jrnl., 1 June, 4/4. Turner, both in the time when he was as distinct as Canaletti and when he was in a misty state of ‘Turnerism.’
1889. Ruskin, Præterita, III. ii. 90. Turnerian mist effects of morning, and Turnerian sunsets at evening.
1893. W. G. Collingwood, Ruskin (1911), II. I. 79. The father was more or less converted to Turnerism and lined his walls with Turner drawings.
1893. D. V. Urrabieta, in Century Mag., XLVI. 191/2. It was no more absurd … than for Mr. Ruskin to ask every artist to Venetianize or Turnerize.
1903. Daily Chron., 3 July, 3/2. ‘Blackwood’ … foretold that the pictorial world would never be Turnerised.
