Turner and Italy - Softcover

James Hamilton is University Curator and Honorary Reader at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of the biographies Turner - A Life (1997), and Faraday - The Life (2002). His book setting Turner and Faraday into the wider context of nineteenth century London, London Lights: The Minds that Moved the City the Shook the World 1805-51, was published in 2007 by John Murray. He has been guest curator for a number of Turner exhibitions, notably Turner and the Scientists (Tate Gallery 1998), Turner: The Late Sea Paintings (Williamstown, Manchester and Glasgow, 2003/04) and Turner's Britain (Birmingham, 2003/04).