George Walter Thornbury

George Walter Thornbury (1828 – 1876) was a British author and the first biographer of JMW Turner. He worked as a journalist but also wrote poetry, novels and art criticism. His first success came with the publication in 1851 of Lays and Legends; or, Ballads of the New World. He also wrote about London which was the city where he was born and spent all his life.