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Joseph Mallord William Turner (artist) British, 1775 - 1851 Mortlake Terrace, 1827 oil on canvas Overall: 92.1 x 122.2 cm (36 1/4 x 48 1/8 in.) framed: 111.1 x 143.2 x 9.5 cm (43 3/4 x 56 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.109 |
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Provenance
Painted for William Moffatt [c. 1754/1755-1831], "The Limes," Mortlake. With William Bernard Cooke, the engraver, c. 1831-1838. Harriott, by 1838; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 23 June 1838, no. 111); bought by Allnutt. The Reverend Edward Thomas Daniell [1804-1842]; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 17 March 1843, no. 160); M.E. Creswick; sold 1851 to (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); purchased 1851 by Samuel Ashton;[1] by descent to Elizabeth Gair Ashton [Mrs. Hyde Ashton], Cheshire;[2] by descent to Captain Ashton; sold 1920 jointly to (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London) and (Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London); sold 1920 to (M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York); sold 1 December 1920 to 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] Ashton lent the painting in 1857 to the exhibition in Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, Paintings by Modern Masters, no. 256.
[2] She lent it to the exhibition, Pictures and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., and a Selection of Pictures by some of his Contemporaries, Corporation of London Art Gallery, Guildhall, 1899, no. 23.
Associated Names
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Allnutt
- Ashton, Captain
- Ashton, Elizabeth Gair
- Ashton, Samuel
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Cooke, William Bernard
- Creswick, M.E.
- Daniell, Edward Thomas, Rev.
- Harriott
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Mellon, Andrew W.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Moffatt, William
- Sulley & Co., Arthur J.
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