Round 5: Tossup 16

A critic of this artist called his painting Angel Standing in the Sun indicative of “mental disease” after previously championing him in the book Modern Painters. A bright yellow sunrise appears in an Aeneid-inspired work by this artist which was hung next to several paintings by Claude Lorrain. This artist of Dido Building Carthage had lines from his “Fallacies of Hope” accompany a painting which depicts a chained leg thrown overboard from a ship. (10[1]-5[1])In a hazy 1844 painting by this artist, a rabbit appears in the way of a black train (10[1])on a bridge (10[1])over a river. For 10 points, name this English artist of The Slave Ship and Rain, Steam, (-5[1])and Speed. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[4])

ANSWER: J. M. W. Turner [or Joseph Mallord William Turner]
<Editors, Painting and Sculpture> | Packet G
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