SUNSET

Sunset ?c.1830-5

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Sunset ?c.1830-5

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Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Sunset

Date?c.1830-5

MediumOil paint on canvas

Dimensionssupport: 667 x 819 mm frame: 905 x 1067 x 120 mm

Collection

Tate

AcquisitionAccepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

N01876

Not on display

Catalogue entry

525. [N01876] Sunset c. 1830–5

THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (1876)

Canvas, 26 1/4 × 32 1/4 (67 × 82)

Coll. Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1928.

Exh. Newcastle 1912 (55).

Lit. Burnet 1852, p. 58; Thornbury 1862, i, p. 169; 1877, p. 121; Armstrong 1902, p. 232; Gage 1969, pp. 36–7, 231 n. 92 (mistakenly as No. 469).

Possibly the work referred to by the younger Trimmer as being among the rolled canvases in the Turner Bequest (Thornbury, loc cit.,; see p. 104): ‘There is a red sunset (simply the sky) among these rolls, the finest sky, to my mind, ever put on canvas.’ The other works mentioned by Trimmer are the larger Thames sketches of c. 1806–7 but this painting was probably painted considerably later, perhaps in the early 1830s. It is however darkened by discoloured megilp which makes assessment difficult