William Turner of Oxford, O.W.S. (Blackbourton 1782-1862 Oxford)

View of the Vale of Festiniog, North Wales

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William Turner of Oxford, O.W.S. (Blackbourton 1782-1862 Oxford)
View of the Vale of Festiniog, North Wales
watercolour heightened with touches of white
10½ x 15½ in. (26.7 x 39.4 cm.)

来源

Artist's sale; Christie's, London, March 9, 1863, lot 106. (5gns to Wyatt).
Stephen Redgrave Esq.; Christie's, London, March 23, 1877, lot 290. (6gns to Rev. Turner, a descendant of the artist) and thence by descent.

展览

London, Oild Water-colour Society, 1832.
Oxford, Oxford University Gallery, The Work of William Turner of Oxford, 1895, no.43a, lent by Rev. Turner.

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拍品专文

This highly competent and highly finished view of the Vale of Festiniog in North Wales was shown at a posthumous retrospective exhibition in 1895 at the Oxford University Gallery (now the Ashmolean Museum), no. 43a. A similar view of the Vale of Festiniog, owned by the Ashmolean Museum was shown as part of the Oxford Museum's 1984 exhibition of the artist's work, as no. 31, and was fully illustrated in the accompanying catalogue by T. Wilcox and C. Titterington, William Turner of Oxford (1789-1862), Wisbech, 1984, p. 20 and 43. That view was executed in the same year as his first visit to North Wales in 1817, and it is likely the work offered here probably dates to about the same time. A generation later than Constable and J.M.W.Turner and a contemporary of Cox and De Wint, Turner worked at the cornerstone of change in British art as the theories on the Picturesque, that had been advanced in the late 18th century, were taken up and it became fashionable for both artists and the wealthy alike to tour Wales and Scotland exploring Britain's rugged and romantic wild land. This watercolour clearly highlights Turner's desire to capture both the topography, but also the beauty of the English landscape and pre-figures the sort of landscapes he executed in Scotland on his tour of the west coast in 1838.