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Joseph Mallord William Turner
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after <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
A Fresh Breeze after Sheerness and Isle Sheppey
Bequeathed by George Salting 1910
boat, sailing
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
transport: water
wave
painting oil paint canvas
3 February 2024 – 18 May 2025
2025-05-18
19 October 2024 – 12 January 2025
2025-01-12
2024-10-19
The Box (Plymouth, UK)
2024-02-03
Vija Celmins
Loan-out
A Fresh Breeze (after ‘Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey’)
support: 400 × 495 × 16 mm
frame: 645 × 735 × 107 mm
Bequeathed by George Salting 1910
<p>[from]<b> Works No Longer Attributed to Turner</b></p>
<p><b>No. 544: British School, Nineteenth Century</b></p>
<p><b>544. </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-a-fresh-breeze-after-sheerness-and-the-isle-of-sheppey-n02642" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02642</span></a>]<b> A Fresh Breeze, part Copy of ‘Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey’</b> </p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (2642)</p>
<p>Canvas, 15 5/8 × 19 (39·5 × 48)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> ...; George Salting, bequeathed 1910 to the National Gallery; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1919.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Brown 1975, pp. 721–2, repr. p. 718, fig. 39.</p>
<p>First catalogued by the National Gallery as by Crome, and by the Tate Gallery as School of Crome, this picture is in fact a part copy of Turner's <i>View off Sheerness</i> in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (No. 62); for two complete copies of that picture see Nos. 542–3. This picture is based on the left half of Turner's original, spacing out and altering 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/proportion" title="Glossary definition for 'Proportion'"><span>proportions</span></a> of the distant shipping, omitting the large buoy in the left foreground, and weakening the dramatic sky.</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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boat, sailing sea seascapes and coasts society transport: water wave