对透纳非常重要的最后几年的探索，包括对他最重要的一些画作的新解读。约瑟夫•马洛德•威廉•透纳（Joseph Mallord William Turner，1775年-1851年）从1835年到1851年去世期间创作的绘画和素描作品被许多人视为他**胆、最引人注目的作品，是 "晚期风格 "的典型范例。在这项研究中，萨姆•斯迈尔斯超越了晚期风格，因为它关注的是形式品质和关于个人表达的假设，这些是解释特纳晚期作品的框架。相反，他认为，透纳在他最后的15年里，是一个完全与自己的时代接触的艺术家。Smiles研究了这位画家在这些年里的批判性接受，并仔细研究了那些假定透纳的身体和精神健康在七十多岁时崩溃的说法，看看随着他的年龄增长，他的作品有什么可以讨论并且是可靠的。从这项研究中发现，这位艺术家利用他最后的岁月巩固了推动他整个职业生涯的原则。

An exploration of Turner's final, vital years, including new readings of some of his most significant paintings The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced from 1835 to his death in 1851 are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a typical example of "late style." In this study, Sam Smiles goes beyond late style, with its focus on formal qualities and assumptions about personal expression, as an explanatory framework for Turner's late works. Instead, he argues that Turner, in his final fifteen years, was an artist entirely engaged with his own times. Smiles examines the artist's critical reception in these years and scrutinizes accounts that presumed Turner's physical and mental health collapsed in his seventies, to see what can be reliably said about his work as he aged. Emerging from this study is an artist who used his final years to consolidate the principles that had motivated him throughout his career.