ID 991658
Lot 113 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
Estimate value
£ 600 000 – 800 000
Sunrise over the Sea, perhaps at Margate
watercolour
9 x 11 5/8 in. (22.8 x 29.4 cm.)
Provenance
Mrs Sophia Caroline Booth.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25 July 1956, lot 9 (part).
with Spink & Son, London, where purchased by
Denis Nahum; Sotheby’s, 23 November 1967, lot 81 (as Sunrise off Margate).
with the Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by
Dr Walter Brandt, and by descent.
Literature
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W.Turner, London, 1979, p.391, no. 784 (as Sunrise off Margate, c.1825-30).
Exhibited
Ickworth, The National Trust, Exhibition of English Watercolours of the Great Period, 1968, no. 70.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, 1976, no.31.
Sudbury, Gainsborough’s House, Drawings from the 18th Century, 1984, no. 1.
Sudbury, Gainsborough’s House, Home and Abroad: Drawings and Watercolours from a Private Collection, 2012, unnumbered.
| Artist: | Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Artist: | Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Address of auction |
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