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Joseph Mallord William Turner (artist) British, 1775 - 1851 Approach to Venice, 1844 oil on canvas Overall: 62 x 94 cm (24 7/16 x 37 in.) framed: 88 x 118.4 x 12.4 cm (34 5/8 x 46 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.110 |
Object 11 of 11
Provenance
William Wethered [d. 1863], King's Lynn, Norfolk, and by 1849, London. Benjamin Godfrey Windus [1790-1867],[1] Tottenham, after 1847;[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 20 June 1853, no. 5); (Ernest Gambart, Paris, Brussels, and London). Charles Birch, Edgbaston and London; (sale, Messrs. Foster, London, 28 February 1856, no. 57); bought by Wallis. Joseph Gillott, Edgbaston, by 1860. (Ernest Gambart, Paris, Brussels, and London); purchased 1863 by (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1863 to James Fallows, who exchanged it later that year (for pictures by Alfred Elmore and P.F. Poole) with (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); sold to J. Smith.[3] Bought 1870 from the executors of Smith's estate by (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1871 to W. Moir; passed to Mrs. Emma Moir; sold 1899 to (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); purchased the same year by Sir Charles Tennant, Bt. [1823-1906], Glen, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland; by descent to his grandson, Christopher Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner [b. 1899];[4] sold July 1923 to (Charles Carstairs for M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York); purchased November 1923 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, 2 vols., 2nd rev. ed., (New Haven and London, [1977] 1984), I: no. 412, begin their provenance with Windus.
[2] The picture is not mentioned by Thomas Tudor, who visited Windus on 21 June 1847, as being among the latter's collection of Turners at that time (Butlin and Joll, as per n. 1 above, I: 259).
[3] Possibly John Smith, the picture dealer of 137 New Bond Street, author of the catalogue raisonné of Dutch pictures, who dealt frequently with Agnew's.
[4] The addition of the 1st Baron Glenconner to the former owner table in the NGA collection database is per NGA curatorial files and The Getty Provenance Index.
Associated Names
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Birch, Charles
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Fallows, James
- Gambart, Ernest
- Gambart, Ernest
- Gillott, Joseph
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Mellon, Andrew W.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Moir, Emma, Mrs.
- Moir, W.
- Smith, J.
- Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, Edward Priaulx, Sir
- Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner, Christopher Grey
- Tennant, Bt., Charles, Sir
- Wallace, Neil W., Mr.
- Wethered, William
- Windus, Benjamin Godfrey
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