Property from the Collection of William and Eleanor Wood Prince, Chicago, Illinois

Circle of Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)

A mountain lake at sunset, a sketch

Details

Circle of Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)
A mountain lake at sunset, a sketch
oil on panel (painted on the lid of a box)
the painted surface: 9½ x 6 3/8 in. (24.1 x 16.2 cm.); the panel: 13¾ x 10 5/8 in. (35 x 27 cm.)

Provenance

Earl of Arran.
with Agnew's, London.

Literature

M. Butlin and E. Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, New Haven, 1984, pp. 307-8, no. 526., pl. 352, as 'Joseph Mallord Turner'.

Exhibited

Leggatt Brothers, London, Autumn Exhibition 1960: J.M.W. Turner R.A., 14 October-4 November 1960, no. 36, as 'Joseph Mallord William Turner' (lent by the Earl of Arran).

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Lot Essay

Although published by Butlin and Joll (op. cit.), the attribution of the present work to Turner has not gained universal support in recent times. Butlin and Joll link it to a group of group of sketches on paper and card which also came from the Arran collection and most of which are now at the Yale Center for British Art. They note that these are no longer accepted as autograph by most Turner scholars.

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