Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)

Finchley Church

with inscription on the reverse of the mount 'Original drawing by Turner/of Finchley Church made for my/Father/in 1793 or 4-/Charles Monro'; pencil and watercolour
9½ x 12 1/8in. (241 x 309mm.)

Provenance

Thomas Monro
by descent Dr Charles Monro
Mrs Stothard
Lady Howard Dobson and R.A. Mills, sale Sotheby's, 22 March 1979, lot 132, repr., #3,600

Literature

Sir Walter Armstrong, Turner, London, 1902, p. 253
A. Wilton, The Life and Works of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg and London, 1979, p. 489 no. 40a, repr.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Old Masters and deceased Masters of the British School, including a Collection of Watercolour Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1887, no. 14

Lot Essay

The parish church of St. Mary in Finchley, originally a village north of Hampstead but now part of Greater London, was built in the 15th Century on the site of a previous 12th Century church; it was considerably enlarged in the 19th Century.

Andrew Wilton, who includes this watercolour in his Addenda, dates it c. 1793-4

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