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His experimental sketches are undoubtedly closer to the flame that inhabited his soul.
Imbued with that unique poetry that guided his enchanted hand, they were made «for his own pleasure» to quote the writer John Ruskin, who was one of the first to study the whole of this fabulous heritage.
Indeed, after the artist’s death, the British nation in 1856 received an im- mense bequest comprising a hundred oil paintings, unfinished studies and sketches, as well as thousands of works on paper consisting of watercolors, drawings and sketchbooks.
