Happy Birthday to you dear J M W TURNER, Squashed tomatos and stew

  Happy birthday to Joseph Mallord WilliamTurner 1775 –  1851 What can you say about Turner that hasn’t been said?  Squashed tomatoes and stew refers to John Ruskin‘s ‘Two Boyhoods’ where he writes about Giorgione  1477 – 1510 and Turner.1775 1851.  Ruskin’s writing is so clever, informative and passionate – never dry: the man cares