Abingdon

This scene is blended ‘in all the golden colour of ambient vapour’, as Turner would admiringly say of Cuyp in 1811. But unlike his model, Turner depicted the sun in a prominent position. Something Cuyp would never have done.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Abingdon, c. 1806-1810, Canvas, 101.5 x 130 cm, London, Tate