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Joseph Mallord William Turner (artist) British, 1775 - 1851 Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, 1834 oil on canvas Overall: 91.5 x 122 cm (36 x 48 1/16 in.) framed: 125.7 x 156.5 x 14 cm (49 1/2 x 61 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.85 |
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Provenance
Painted for Henry McConnel [1801-1871], The Polygon, Ardwick, Manchester, who sold it 1849 to John Naylor, Leighton Hall, Liverpool;[1] passed to his wife, from whom it was purchased 1910 through (Dyer and Sons) by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London. Re-entered in joint ownership with (Arthur J. Sulley & Co.), London, April 1910; purchased from (Arthur J. Sulley & Co.), London, 13 June 1910 by P.A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
[1] McConnel, acclaimed as "the pioneer of art collecting in Lancashire," subsequently commissioned a contrasting companion picture of an industrial scene at a seaport in the north of England (1942.9.86). In 1861 he tried, unsuccessfully, to buy back from John Naylor one or other of these canvasses, which he had sold to him in 1849. McConnel to John Naylor, 28 May 1861 (quoted in Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, 2 vols., rev. ed., (New Haven: 1984) I: 205).
Associated Names
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Dyer and Sons
- McConnel, Henry
- Naylor, John
- Naylor, John, Mrs.
- Sulley & Co., Arthur J.
- Widener, Joseph E.
- Widener, Peter Arrell Brown
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