Lot Essay
William Turner de Lond, presumably so named in order to avoid confusion with William Turner of Oxford and perhaps presumptuously, with the great Joseph Mallord William Turner. Indeed when an album of Lithographs of the Great Fire of Edinburgh produced by Turner de Lond in 1824 turned up in 1906 there was a four page article written in 'The Connoisseur' arguing why they were by the 'Great Artist himself' although clearly inscribed 'W. Turner de Lond delc et fecit'.
Little is known of Turner de Lond's movements although he did exhibit in Limerick in 1821, alongside this lot, some twenty-four other pictures including portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington, landscapes in Italy and France and 'The King's Entrance into Dublin' which was the arrival of George IV into Dublin earlier that year which now hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland. This important picture was also purchased at the 1821 exhibition by H.W. Russell as both pictures were lent by him again to Limerick in 1858 when they were re-exhibited.
The artist then moved to Scotland where as well as recording the great fire of 1824 he also executed in lithography 'Six Views of the New Line of Road communicating between Stirling and Carlisle' as well as busy oil paintings of the arrival of long distant carriages into Edinburgh.
Little is known of Turner de Lond's movements although he did exhibit in Limerick in 1821, alongside this lot, some twenty-four other pictures including portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington, landscapes in Italy and France and 'The King's Entrance into Dublin' which was the arrival of George IV into Dublin earlier that year which now hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland. This important picture was also purchased at the 1821 exhibition by H.W. Russell as both pictures were lent by him again to Limerick in 1858 when they were re-exhibited.
The artist then moved to Scotland where as well as recording the great fire of 1824 he also executed in lithography 'Six Views of the New Line of Road communicating between Stirling and Carlisle' as well as busy oil paintings of the arrival of long distant carriages into Edinburgh.