The 'Sun of Venice' going to Sea
after Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1843 - 1899
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
318 x 470 mm (12 1/2 x 18 1/2 in)
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Knightshayes Court, Devon
NT 541113
Caption
The painting shows a hazy harbour scene, the lagoon of Venice, with a boat, a ‘bragozzo’, a Venetian fishing boat, in full sail,. The name emblazoned on the sail is the ‘Sol di Venezia’ (Sun of Venice) in the centre. It is a sketch, once owned by the artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson, RA (1832 –1910) after the original painting now in Tate Britain which Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1843 with an accompanying poem, 'The Fallacies of Hope', in which is an unexpected premonition of doom suggesting that anyone who ventures out to sea faces dangers, a ‘demon in grim repose’.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The 'Sun of Venice' going to Sea after Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA, (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851). It shows a hazy harbour scene, the lagoon of Venice, with a boat in full sail, a ‘bragozzo’, a Venetian fishing boat. The name emblazoned on the sail is the ‘Sol di Venezia’ in the centre. It is a sketch after the original painting now in Tate Britain which Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1843 with an accompanying poem, 'The Fallacies of Hope' in which is an unexpected premonition of doom suggesting that anyone who ventures out to sea faces dangers, a ‘demon in grim repose’. One of the last Sir John's 'Old Masters' collection.
Provenance
Sir William Orchardson, RA; Thos. Agnew & Sons 1902; Sir George Drummond, Montreal 1919; John A MacAulay Q.C; bequeathed to the Knightshayes Garden Trust by Sir John Heathcoat Amory in 1972. Exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada ,1954, no 25.
Makers and roles
after Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851), artist