Chichester Canal
Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1828 - 1829
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
635 x 1320 mm
Place of origin
Chichester
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486626
Caption
The 3rd Earl of Egremont invested at least £55,000 in the Portsmouth and Arundel Canal. It was finished in 1823 but proved unprofitable. The 3rd Earl withdrew from the company in 1826, but still commissioned this painting.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Chichester Canal by Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851). A circa 1830 landscape by J.M.W. Turner. (TATE/T03885). The water is receding to the centre distance where the sun sinks in a bank of grey. In the mid-distance lies a schooner with bare masts and to the right can be seen the Cathedral towers against the sky. In the left foreground is a row boat with one figure and on the right is a wild duck. Across the left mid-distance is a line of elms and cattle on the left bank.
Provenance
Commissioned from Turner by George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837). Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by HM Treasury. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax. Allocated to Tate in 1984 and on long-term loan from Tate to the National Trust at Petworth.
Credit line
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of tax and allocated to the Tate Gallery 1984. In situ at Petworth House
Makers and roles
Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851), artist