National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore
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Provenance

Painted for Henry McConnel [1801-1871], The Polygon, Ardwick, Manchester; sold 1849 to John Naylor, Leighton Hall, Liverpool;[1] passed to his wife; purchased 1910 through (Dyer and Sons) by (Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London); re-entered April 1910 in Agnew's stock in joint ownership with (Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London); purchased 13 June 1910 from (Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London) by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park.

[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 (NGA 1942.9.86, Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight). 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).

Exhibition History

1834
Modern Artists, Royal Manchester Institution, 1834, no. 53.
1834
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1834, no. 175.
1854
Pictures Exhibited at a Soirée Given by John Buck Lloyd, Esquire, Mayor of Liverpool, Town Hall, Loverpool, 23 September 1854, no. 2.
1914
Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. and J.M.W. Turner, R.A., M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1914, no. 35.
1997
Venezia Da Stato a Mito [Venice: From a State to a Myth], Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1997, no. 66, repro.
1998
"Near Turner's Point of View": Paintings by J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Moran, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, 1998, no. 2, fig. 32.
2003
Turner and Venice, Tate Britain, London; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2003-2004, no. 37, repro.
2003
Turner: The Late Seascapes, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Manchester Art Gallery; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 2003-2004, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 22, repro. (shown only in Williamstown).
2007
J.M.W. Turner, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007-2008, no. 105, repro.

Bibliography

1834
Athenaeum 341 (10 May 1834): 355.
1834
London Literary Gazette, no. 903, 10 May 1834: 331.
1834
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 10, no. 512, 18 October 1834.
1834
Manchester Guardian, 30 August 1834.
1834
Morning Chronicle, 26 May 1834.
1834
Spectator, 7, no. 306, 10 May 1834: 447.
1861
Athenaeum 1781 (14 December 1861): 808.
1915
Roberts, William. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia, 1915: unpaginated, repro.
1923
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro.
1931
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 14, repro.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 7.
1948
Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 98, repro.
1960
Cooke, Hereward Lester. British Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Eight in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 40, color repro.
1964
Rothenstein, John and Martin Butlin. Turner. London, 1964: 52, pl. 98.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 132
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 119, repro.
1971
George, Hardy. "Turner in Venice." The Art Bulletin 53, no. 1 (March 1971): 84-87.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 354, repro.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 603, color repro.
1984
Butlin, Martin and Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W. Tuner. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1977. (2d rev. ed., 1984): 1: no. 356; 2: color pl. 362.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 413, no. 588, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 405, repro.
1986
Treuherz, Julian. "The Turner Collector: Henry McConnel, Cotton Spinner." Turner Studies 6 (1986): 38-39, 40-41, 42, fig. 2.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 274-277, color repro. 275.
1998
Townsend, Richard P., J.M.W. Turner: The Greatest of Landscape Painters. Oklahoma, 1998: 34, no. 32, repro.
2008
Schwander, Martin, ed. Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet. Ostfildern, 2008: 61, fig. 3.

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