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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

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Lot 153 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Pope's Villa at Twickenham

signed 'IMW Turner RA PP' (lower left)

oil on canvas

36 1/4 x 48 1/4 in. (92 x 122.5 cm.)





Provenance

Bought from the artist by Sir John Leicester, 1st Baron de Tabley (1762-1827), for 200 gns. on 1 September 1808; (†) his sale, Christie's, on the Premises, 24 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, 7 July 1827, lot 24, where acquired for 205 gns. by,

James Morrison (1789-1857), by descent; Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2008, lot 91, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

J. Landseer, Review of Publications of Art, London, 1808, pp. 151-159.

W. Carey, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings by British Artists, in the possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart., London, 1819, pp. 52-54, no. 17.

J. Young, A Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists, in the Possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart., London, 1821, pp. 8-9, no. 17, illustrated (engraving).

G.F. Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England, IV, London, 1857, p. 302.

W. Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., II, London, 1862, pp. 235-236.

W. Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London, 1877, p. 333.

Sir W. Armstrong, Turner, London, 1902, p. 227.

C.F. Bell, 'Turner and His Engravers', in The Genius of J.M.W. Turner, C. Holme, ed., London, Paris and New York, 1903, p. iv.

W.G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., I, London, 1908, pp. xxv-xxvi, 33.

C. Clare, J.M.W. Turner. His Life and Work, New York, 1951, p. 82.

A. Livermore, 'J.M.W. Turner's Unknown Verse Book', The Connoisseur Year Book, 1957, pp. 78-86.

A.J. Finberg, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1961, pp. 144-145, 149, 157, 184, 302, 469 and 478, no. 203.

D. Hall, 'The Tabley House Papers', Walpole Society, XXXVIII, 1960-1962, pp. 93, 120, no. 93.

J. Lindsay, J.M.W. Turner, His Life and Work, A Critical Biography, Greenwich, 1966, p. 128.

J. Gage, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, New York, 1969, p. 42, illustrated (engraving).

M. Butlin and E. Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, I, New Haven and London, 1977, p. 47-48, no. 72; II, pl. 60.

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London, 1979, p. 111, no. P72, pl. 112.

J. Gage, ed., Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner, Oxford, 1980, p. 264.

M. Butlin and E. Joll, L'Opera Completa di Turner 1793-1829, Milan, 1982, p. 90, no. 135, illustrated.

P. Youngblood, 'The Painter as Architect: Turner and Sandycombe Lodge’, Turner Studies, II, no. 1, Winter 1981, pp. 21-22.

R. Paulson, Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable, New Haven and London,1982, p. 78, pl. 42.

B. Venning, ‘Exhibition Review [of JMW Turner at the Grand Palais, in Paris]’, Turner Studies, III, no. 2, Winter 1983, p. 54.

M. Butlin and E. Joll, The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner, New Haven, 1984, revised edition, p. 55-56, no. 72, pl. 82.

J. Ziff, ‘William Henry Pyne’s J.M.W. TURNER, R.A.; A Neglected Critic and Essay Remembered’, Turner Studies, VI, no. 1, Summer 1986, pp. 18, 19 and 25, fig. 2.

S. Whittingham, ‘A Most Liberal Patron: Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart., 1st Baron de Tabley 1762-1827’, Turner Studies, VI, no. 2, Winter 1986, pp. 28-29 and 34-35.

L. Herrmann, 'John Landseer on Turner, Reviews of Exhibits in 1808, 1839 and 1840 (Part I)', Turner Studies, VII, 1987, pp. 26-33.

J. Gage, J.M.W. Turner: A Wonderful range of mind, New Haven and London, 1987, pp. 189-192, fig. 266.

J. Gage, ‘Turner and John Landseer: Translating the Image’, in Turner Studies, VIII, no. 2, Winter 1988, p. 11.

A. Wilton, Turner in His Time, New York, 1990, pp. 77, 93, 107, 230 and 234.

E. Shanes, Turner's England 1810-38, London, 1990, pp. 62-63.

E. Shanes, Turner’s Human Landscape, London, 1990, pp. 24-26, 28, 75, 206, 291, 321, fig. 9, fig. 10 (engraving).

B. Venning, ‘Exhibition Review [of The Painting and Poetry exhibition at the Tate]’, Turner Studies, X, no. 2, Winter 1990, p. 49.

D. Hill, Turner on the Thames, London and New Haven, 1993, p. 148.

A. Lyles and D. Perkins, Colour into Line: Turner and the Art of Engraving, exhibition catalogue, London, 1993, p. 31.

E. Joll, in The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, E. Joll, M. Butlin, and L. Herrmann, eds., Oxford, 2001, p. 232.

J. Hamilton, Turner's Britain, London and New York, 2003, p. 82, pl. 59.

E. Shanes, Turner: The Life and Masterworks, New York, 2004, pp. 88-89, illustrated.

L. Herrmann, ‘JMW Turner’s “Pope’s Villa at Twickenham”: A case study’, British Art Journal, VIII, no. 1, Summer 2007, pp. 20-23.



Exhibited

London, Turner's Gallery, 1808.

London, Sir John Leicester's Gallery, 1819, no. 17.

London, South Kensington, International Exhibition, 1862, no. 334.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, 1882, no. 175.

London, The Grosvenor Gallery, Winter Exhibition: A Second series of a Century of British Art from 1737-1837, 1889, no. 41.

London, Grosvenor Gallery, III National Loan Exhibition: Pictures from the Basildon Park and Fonthill Collections, 1914-1915, no. 72.

London, Country Life Exhibition, 1937 (uncatalogued).

Twickenham, Marble Hill, Views of Pope’s Villa, Grotto and Garden: A Microcosm of English Landscape, July-September 1980 (cat. by Prof Morris R Brownell).

London, Tate Gallery and Royal Academy, Turner 1775-1851, 16 November 1974-2 March 1975, no. 148.

Paris, Grand Palais, J.M.W. Turner, 14 October 1983-16 January 1984, no. 14.

London, Tate Gallery, Painting and Poetry: Turner's Verse and his Work of 1804-1812, 27 June-16 September 1990, no. 35.

Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Turner's Britain, 7 November 2003-8 February 2004, no. 43.

Washington, National Gallery of Art; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, JMW Turner, 1 October 2007-21 September 2008, no. 27.

Eugene, Oregon, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2009, on loan.
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