Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.

John Green of Blackheath;

His sale, Christie's, London, 26 April 1830, lot 82, for 83 guineas to Munro;

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar (1830–1878);

His sale, Christie's, 6 April 1878, lot 103, for 1850 guineas, to E. Benjamin;

Christoher Becket-Denison, M.P. (1825–1884); 

His sale, Christie's, 13 June 1885, lot 892, for 1450 guineas to Agnew;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;

Sir William Cuthbert Quilter, 1^st Bt., M.P. (1841–1911);

Offered in his sale, Christie's, London, 9 July 1909, lot 82, where unsold;

Thence by descent to his grandson, Sir Raymond Quilter, 3^rd Bt. (1902–1959);

With Leggatt Brothers, London, 1960;

By whom sold to Huntington Hartford (1911–2008) and exhibited at his Gallery of Modern Art, New York, 1964–1969;

By whom sold (‘The Property of Mr. Huntington Hartford of New York City’), London, Sotheby’s, 17 March 1971, lot 56, to Hodge for £7,000;

With Christopher Gibbs, London, 1972;

By whom sold to The Fine Arts Society, London;

With Alberto Jaimes-Berti, London, 1978;

Private collection, South America;

From whom acquired by the late owner.

London, Royal Academy, 1849, no. 206;

London, Royal Academy, 3 January – 12 March 1887, no. 149;

London, Guildhall, 1897, no. 65;

London, Royal Academy, 1 January – 10 March 1906, no. 28;

London, Tate Gallery, on loan 1955–60;

London, Leggatt Brothers, Autumn Exhibition, J. M. W. Turner, R.A., 1960, no. 29;

New York, Huntington Hartford Museum, New York, 1960–1971;

London, Christopher Gibbs Ltd., Painting in England, 1799–1900, 1973–1974, no. 3;

London, Tate Gallery and Royal Academy, Turner: 1775–1851, 1974–1975, no. 78;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975;         

London, Tate Gallery, Turner and the Masters, 23 September 2009 – 31 January 2010, no. 36;

Paris, Galaries Nationales, Grand Palais; and Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Turner and the Masters, 22 February – 19 September 2010, no. 36;

J. Burnet and P. Cunningham, Turner and His Works, London 1852, pp. 30, 44 and 121, no. 247;

A.A. Watts, Fluviorum or River Scenery of France, 1853, p. xxx;

G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols, London 1854, vol. II, p. 140 (recorded in H.A.J. Munro’s collection);

W. Thornbury, The Life of J. M.W. Turner, R.A., 2 vols, London 1862, vol. I, p. 58; vol. II, pp. 190, 327, 345, and 400.; second ed., 1877, pp. 33, 300, 395, 526, 547 and 597;

W. Frost, A.R.A. (revised by H. Reeve), A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Water-Colour Drawings, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of the late Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro Esq of Novar, at the time of his Death deposited in his House No. 6 Hamilton Place London with some Additional Paintings at Novar, privately printed 1865, p. 94, no. 120;

W.C. Monkhouse, Turner, New York 1879, p. 52;

F. Wedmore, Turner and Ruskin, 2 vols, London 1900, vol. I., reproduced opposite p. 62;

C.F. Bell, A List of the Works Contributed to Public Exhibitions by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London 1901, p. 158, no. 264;

Sir W. Armstrong, Turner, London 1902, pp. 104, 105, 107, 108, 161, and 217, reproduced as the frontispiece;

A.J. Finberg, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Oxford 1961, pp. 98, 118, 425 and 510, no. 583;

J. Rothenstein and M. Butlin, Turner, New York and London 1964, pp. 18 and 73, reproduced plate 24;

Anon., Catalogue of Paintings from the Huntington Hartford Collection in the Gallery of Modern Art, New York 1964, acc. no. 60.5, reproduced pl. 4;

J. Lindsay, J.M.W. Turner, His Life and Work: A Critical Biography, London 1966, p. 245, no. 3;

J. Gage, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, New York and London 1969, p. 141, reproduced pl. 62;

G. Reynolds, Turner, London 1969, pp. 56, 62 and 204, reproduced fig. 38;

M. Butlin & A. Wilton, Turner, 1775–1851, exh. cat., London 1974, pp. 151–2, no. 78;

L. Herrmann, Turner: Paintings, Watercolours, Prints and Drawings, London and New York 1975, p. 235;

M. Butlin and E. Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, 2 vols, New Haven and London 1977, text vol., p. 100, no. 150, plates vol., reproduced pl. 161; revised ed., 1984, pp. 113–115, no. 150, reproduced plate 49;

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London 1979, pp. 84 and 223, reproduced plate 77, no. P150;

J. Gage (ed.), Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 1980, p. 272;

R. Paulson, Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable, New Haven and London 1982, p. 72;

A. Wilton, Turner in his Time, London 1987, pp. 57–8, 85–6, and 233–4, reproduced plate 73;

M. Butlin and E. Joll, L'opera completa di Turner, 2 vols, Milan 1982, vol. I, p. 78, no. 53;

J. Ziff, 'Turner et les grands maîtres,' in J.M.W. Turner, exh. cat., Paris 1984, pp. 28–29, reproduced;    

C. Powell, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence, New Haven 1987, pp. 193–4, reproduced;

J. Gage, J.M.W. Turner: A Wonderful Range of Mind, New Haven 1987, p. 100, reproduced plate 125;

K. Nicholson, Turner's Classical Landscapes: Myth and Meaning, Princeton 1987, pp. 62–3, 74 and 275, reproduced plate 35;

A. Bailey, Standing in the Sun; A Life of J.M.W. Turner, London 1997, pp. 329–30;

J. Hamilton, Turner. A Life, London 1997, pp. 82 and 238;

G. Finley, Angel in the Sun. Turner’s Visions of History, Montreal and Kingston 1999, pp. 48, 49 and 55, reproduced;

D. Solkin et al., Turner and the Masters, exh. cat., London 2009, pp. 138 and 141, no. 36, reproduced in colour p. 139, and p. 28 (detail); 

I. Warrell, Turner’s Secret Sketches, exh. cat., London 2012, pp. 60–1, reproduced p. 62.