Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.

Probably acquired from the artist by Sir John Fleming Leicester, later 1st Baron de Tabley (1762–1827);

Probably his sale, London, Christie’s on the premises, 7 July 1827, lot 17, to Butterworth, on behalf of J.M.W. Turner (as reported in The Times); 

Probably re-sold by Turner to Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar (1797–1864);

His sale, London, Christie’s, 6 April 1878, lot 104, to Agnews for Sir William Armstrong, later 1st Baron Armstrong (1810–1900), Cragside House, Northumberland;

By inheritance to his nephew, William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1863–1941);

Thence by descent to the present owners.

   

C.F. Bell, A list of works contributed to public exhibitions by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London 1901, pp. 74–76;

Sir W. Armstrong, Turner, London 1902, p. 53 n.;

B. Beckett, ‘“View of Kilgarren Castle”: A link between Turner and Wilson,’ in Connoisseur, vol. CXX, September 1947, pp. 10–15;

M. Butlin and E. Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, rev. ed., 2 vols., New Haven and London 1984, text vol., p. 316, no. 550, plates vol., reproduced pl. 542 (listed under ‘Works no longer attributed to Turner’).

Possibly London, Sir John Leicester’s Gallery, 1819, no. 27;

London, Corporation of London Art Gallery, Guildhall, Loan Collection of Pictures, 1892, no. 93;

London, Corporation of London Art Gallery, Guildhall, Loan Collection of Pictures and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., and a selection of pictures by some of his Contemporaries, 1899, no. 3.