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Sheerness and Isle Sheppey after JMW Turner
Bequeathed by John Meeson Parsons 1870
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agriculture and fishing
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boat, rowing
boat, sailing
England
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England, Southern
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fisherman / fisherwoman
Isle of Sheppey
Kent
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<p>Visiting Turner’s Gallery in 1807, the President of the Royal Academy, Benjamin West, found ‘views on the Thames, crude blotches, nothing could be more vicious’. Among them was the original of this composition (National Gallery, Washington DC), in fact one of the finest of Turner’s breezy Thames marines.</p><p>Turner’s <i>Sheerness</i> was bought by Thomas Lister Parker, who seems later to have sold it and asked Callcott, a friend and admirer of Turner, to paint him a copy. This smaller version is probably a study for Callcott’s copy.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
24 October 2003 – 25 January 2004
2004-01-25
24 October 2003 – 25 January 2004
2004-01-25
2003-10-24
Barber Institute of Fine Arts (Birmingham, UK)
http://www.barber.org.uk
2003-10-24
J.M.W Turner: The Sun Rising Through Vapour
Loan-out
12 August 2009 – 26 July 2010
2010-07-26
12 August 2009 – 26 July 2010
2010-07-26
2009-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-12
Turner on the Thames
Collection based display
Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey (after J.M.W. Turner)
support: 698 × 895 mm
frame: 1007 × 1205 × 84 mm
Bequeathed by John Meeson Parsons 1870
<p>Visiting Turner’s Gallery in 1807, the President of the Royal Academy, Benjamin West, found ‘views on the Thames, crude blotches, nothing could be more vicious’.  Among them was the original of this composition (National Gallery, Washington DC), in fact one of the finest of Turner’s breezy Thames marines.
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<br/>Turner’s <i>Sheerness</i> was bought by Thomas Lister Parker, who seems later to have sold it and asked Callcott, a friend and admirer of Turner, to paint him a copy.  This smaller version is probably a study for Callcott’s copy.
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2010-02-18T00:00:00
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<p>[from]<b> Works No Longer Attributed to Turner</b></p>
<p><b>Nos. 542–3: Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844)</b></p>
<p><b>542. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/callcott-sheerness-and-the-isle-of-sheppey-after-j-m-w-turner-n00813" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00813</span></a>]<b> Copy of ‘Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey’</b> <i>c</i>. 1807–8 </p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (813)</p>
<p>Canvas, 27 1/2 × 35 1/2 (70 × 89·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> ...; John Meeson Parsons, bequeathed 1870 to the National Gallery; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1912.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> <i>Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery; ...British School</i> 1878, p. 168; MacColl 1920, p. 28; Mary Chamot, <i>The Tate Gallery: British School, A Concise Catalogue</i> 1953, p. 261; Brown 1975, pp. 721–2, repr. p. 719, fig. 40.</p>
<p>A copy of the picture now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (No. 62); there is a still smaller, more freely handled version in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (No. 543). Accepted in 1878 as a genuine Turner of about 1801 and retained as such by MacColl, though by then the relationship with the Washington and Oxford pictures had been noticed, the date amended to about 1808, and a note added that ‘Doubts have been cast on the authenticity of the picture, because of the construction of one of the sails’. Mary Chamot, in 1953, relegated the picture to ‘ascribed to J. M. W. Turner’, and it was recognised as a copy in the Tate Gallery catalogues from 1967. David Brown was the first to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/attribute" title="Glossary definition for 'Attribute'"><span>attribute</span></a> this and the Oxford version to Callcott, as works done for his own instruction a little before he painted the life-size replica still at Browsholme Hall, the home of Thomas Lister Parker, who bought the original in 1807.</p>
<p><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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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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adults agriculture and fishing boat, fishing boat, rowing boat, sailing England England, South East England, Southern figure fisherman / fisherwoman Isle of Sheppey Kent people places sea seascapes and coasts Sheerness society storm transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features wave weather work and occupations