Rotterdam Ferry-Boat
1833
Artist, British, 1775 - 1851


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 57
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 92.3 x 122.5 cm (36 5/16 x 48 1/4 in.)
framed: 115.6 x 146 x 7.6 cm (45 1/2 x 57 1/2 x 3 in.) -
Accession
1970.17.135
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased 1833 at the time of the Royal Academy of Arts (London) exhibition[1] by Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro [1795-1865], Novar, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6 April 1878, no. 101); bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London), for Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Ashgrove, Kent; by descent to Robert Kirkman Hodgson, Gavelacre, Hampshire; sold 1893 to (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); purchased the same year by Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st bt. [1823-1906], The Glen, near Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland; by descent to his grandson,[2] Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd baron Glenconner [1899-1983], The Glen; sold July 1923 to (Charles Carstairs for M. Knoedler & Co., London), from whose New York branch it was purchased November 1923 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; gift by 1937 to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1] The painting was number 8 in the catalogue of the exhibition.
[2] On the Tennant family see James Dugdale, "Sir Charles Tennant, the Story of a Victorian Collector," The Connoisseur, 178 (September 1971): 11.
Associated Names
- Munro, Hugh Andrew Johnstone
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Hodgson, Kirkman Daniel
- Hodgson, Robert Kirkman
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd.
- Tennant, Charles Clow, 1st bt., Sir
- Tennant, Edward Priaulx, 1st baron Glenconner
- Tennant, Christopher Grey, 2nd baron Glenconner
- M. Knoedler & Company
- Mellon, Andrew W.
- Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
Exhibition History
1833
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1833, no. 8.
1894
Works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1894, no. 103.
1901
Works by British Artists Deceased Since 1850. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1901, no. 82.
1924
Ten Paintings from the Tennant-Glenconner Collection, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1924, no. 9.
2003
Turner: The Late Seascapes, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Manchester Art Gallery; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 2003-2004, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 20, 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. 114, repro.
Bibliography
1833
London Literary Gazette, no. 851, 11 May 1833: 299.
The Times (London), 1 July 1833.
Athenaeum 289 (11 May 1833): 297.
Arnold's Magazine of the Fine Arts, n.s., 1 (June 1833): 187.
1862
Thornbury, Walter. The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A.. 2 vols. London, 1862: 2:400 (2d ed., 1877).
1865
Frost, William. Revised by Henry Reeve. A Catalogue of the Paintings ... in the Collection of the late Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, ... 6 Hamilton Place, London; with some additional paintings at Novar. London, 1865: no. 40.
1888
Redford, George. Art Sales. 2 vols. London, 1888, 1:270, 272.
1952
Cunningham, C.C. "Turner's Van Tromp Paintings." The Art Quarterly 15 (1952): 325-329.
1971
Dugdale, James. "Sir Charles Tennant: The Story of a Victorian Collector." The Connoisseur 178 (1971): 8, 12, repro.
1974
Bachrach, A.G.H. Turner and Rotterdam 1817-1825-1841. Deventer, n.d. [1974]: 20, repro. 21.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 356, repro., as Van Tromp's Shallop.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 602. color repro.
1981
Bachrach, A.G.H. "Turner, Ruisdael and the Dutch." Turner Studies 1 (1981): 26, pl. 13.
1984
Butlin, Martin, and Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1977. (2d. rev. ed., 1984): 1:no. 348; 2:pl. 351.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 413, no. 587, color repro., as Van Tromp's Shallop.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 407, repro.
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: 272-274, repro. 273.
Wikidata ID
Q20185784