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in Wales Mountain Scene with Village and Castle  Evening
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
boat - non-specific
evening
features
landscape
man
mountain
people
places
river
River Wye
society
times of the day
tower
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
Wales
water: inland
wooded
<p>The tours Turner made to Wales in the 1790s were formative experiences, encompassing mountain scenery and picturesque ruins. By the end of the decade he had become an admirer of the Welsh artist Richard Wilson (1713–1782), who recorded his native landscape with a classical restraint. Turner even travelled to the earlier artist’s birthplace at Penegoes in Montgomeryshire. This work was painted at that time, but not exhibited. It may have been developed as an exercise in the manner of Wilson. Or perhaps Turner hoped to find a buyer among the amateurs who came to him for drawing or painting lessons.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2016</em></p>
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2012-04-28
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View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle - Evening
support: 594 × 730 × 23 mm
frame: 822 × 972 × 140 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<p>The tours Turner made to Wales in the 1790s were formative experiences, encompassing mountain scenery and picturesque ruins.  By the end of the decade he had become an admirer of the Welsh artist Richard Wilson (1713–1782), who recorded his native landscape with a classical restraint. Turner even travelled to the earlier artist’s birthplace at Penegoes in Montgomeryshire. This work was painted at that time, but not exhibited. It may have been developed as an exercise in the manner of Wilson. Or perhaps Turner hoped to find a buyer among the amateurs who came to him for drawing or painting lessons.</p>
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<p><b>29.</b> [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-view-in-wales-mountain-scene-with-village-and-castle-evening-n00466" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00466</span></a>]<b> View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle—Evening</b> <i>c.</i> 1799–1800
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<br/>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (466)
<br/>Canvas, 22 7/8 × 28 5/8 (58 ×72·5)
<br/><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (? 93, ‘Welsh Castle’ 2'4 1/4" × 1'1 1/2"); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1929.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Newcastle 1912 (54); Newcastle 1924 (158); Tate Gallery 1931 (8); <i>Welsh Landscape in British Art</i> Arts Council Welsh tour, August 1947–February 1948 (41); Cardiff 1951; Arts Council tour 1952 (1); Brighton 1957 (32); Swansea 1964 (155); Milan 1975 (148, repr.); Llandudno and Swansea 1984 (69, repr.).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Ruskin 1857 (1903–12, xiii, pp. 102–3); Armstrong 1902, p. 236; MacColl 1920, p. 3; Davies 1946, p. 187.</p>
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<p>One of a group of small Wilsonian <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> of the late 1790s and more conventionally Wilsonian in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> than No. 31 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-view-of-a-town-n00475" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00475</span></a>]. The identification with Wales dates back to the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> entering the National Gallery, if not to the Inventory of the Turner Bequest, though the exact site cannot be located; nor are there any directly comparable <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a>. On the other hand, Andrew Wilton has suggested a more direct influence from Wilson: the skyline and tower are very close to the right-hand side of Wilson's <i><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>Landscape</span></a> with Bathers, Cattle and Ruin</i>, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilson-landscape-with-bathers-cattle-and-ruin-n01290" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01290</span></a> in the Tate Gallery (another version, in the Huntington Art Gallery, San Marino, is repr. W.G. Constable, <i>Richard Wilson</i> 1953, pl. 99b). Turner copied this, or another version of the composition, in a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> in the Turner Bequest (XXXIII-I).
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<br/>Comparison with Turner's paintings of Kilgarran Castle (see No. 11) and discussions with Andrew Wilton have led to a slightly later dating for this picture than that of <i>c.</i> 1798 given in the first edition of this catalogue. Wilton (exh. cat. 1984) suggests that the picture shows a scene on the Wye.</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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2004-09-22T00:00:00
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adults architecture boat - non-specific evening features landscape man mountain people places river River Wye society times of the day tower townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water UK countries and regions UK natural features Wales water: inland wooded