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Rotterdam Ferry-Boat
J. M. W. Turner1833
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Rotterdam Ferry-Boat
- Creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Date Created: 1833
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 92.3 x 122.5 cm (36 5/16 x 48 1/4 in.) framed: 115.6 x 146 x 7.6 cm (45 1/2 x 57 1/2 x 3 in.)
- Provenance: Purchased 1833 at the time of the Royal Academy of Arts (London) exhibition[1] by Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro [1795-1865], Novar, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6 April 1878, no. 101); bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London), for Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Ashgrove, Kent; by descent to Robert Kirkman Hodgson, Gavelacre, Hampshire; sold 1893 to (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); purchased the same year by Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st bt. [1823-1906], The Glen, near Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland; by descent to his grandson,[2] Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd baron Glenconner [1899-1983], The Glen; sold July 1923 to (Charles Carstairs for M. Knoedler & Co., London), from whose New York branch it was purchased November 1923 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; gift by 1937 to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] The painting was number 8 in the catalogue of the exhibition. [2] On the Tennant family see James Dugdale, "Sir Charles Tennant, the Story of a Victorian Collector," _The Connoisseur_, 178 (September 1971): 11.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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