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Unknown artist, Britain
Fragment a Composition A Ruin beyond a Lake with Cattle in Foreground
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
animals: mammals
architecture
building
cow
features
lake
ruins
tower
water: inland
painting oil paint canvas
Fragment of a Composition: A Ruin beyond a Lake, with Cattle in the Foreground
support: 201 × 152 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
<p>[from]<b> Works Formerly Attributed to Turner</b></p>
<p><b>Nos. 545–7a: Richard Wilson (1713 or 1714–1782) or his Studio</b></p>
<p><b>547a. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/unknown-artist-britain-fragment-of-a-composition-a-ruin-beyond-a-lake-with-cattle-in-the-d00899" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>D00899</span></a>]<b> Ruined Church beside a River, with Castle in the foreground</b></p>
<p>THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON (XXXIII-b)</p>
<p>Oil on canvas, a fragment of a larger whole, irregular, approx. 8 × 6 (20×15)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> ?Turner Bequest 1856 <i>or</i> Garnons Bequest 1854.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Finberg 1909, i, p. 68.</p>
<p>The attribution of this fragment on coarse <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> was already doubted by Finberg. In style it seems close to the work of Richard Wilson, though too broad and summary to rank with all but his weakest works. In the case of this work too, as in that of Nos. 546 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilson-valley-with-a-bridge-over-a-river-n01890" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01890</span></a>] and 547 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilson-niagara-falls-n01891" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01891</span></a>], a picture from the Garnons Bequest may have become absorbed into the so-called Turner Bequest.</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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2004-09-22T00:00:00
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animals: mammals architecture building cow features lake ruins tower water: inland
XXXIII b