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How did John Ruskin first discover the paintings of J.M.W. Turner?
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John Ruskin, tinted lithograph published in London, c. 1880.
John Ruskin first discovered the work of J.M.W. Turner in 1833. He was introduced to the artist's paintings through the illustrations featured in an edition of Samuel Rogers’s poem Italy, which had been given to him by a business partner of his father.1