Oil paint on canvas
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Seascape with a Yacht 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
boat, yacht
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
transport: water
painting oil paint canvas
Seascape with a Yacht (?)
support: 502 × 660 mm
frame: 568 × 722 × 48 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><b>274. </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-seascape-with-a-yacht-n05485" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05485</span></a>]<b> Seascape with a Yacht?</b> <i>c.</i>
1825–30</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5485)</p>
<p>Canvas, 19 3/4 × 26 (50 × 66)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (164, one of 2 each 2'2" × 1'8" with No. 273; identified 1946 by chalk number on the back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 159, 188.</p>
<p>The picture is more thinly and freely painted than those here dated to the later 1820s (e.g., Nos. 268 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-study-of-sea-and-sky-isle-of-wight-n02001" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02001</span></a>], 271–3 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-three-seascapes-n05491" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05491</span></a>, <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-sandy-beach-n05521" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05521</span></a>, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-rocky-coast-n05499" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05499</span></a>] and 327 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-seascape-n05481" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05481</span></a>]), but with its lack of drama and small size probably dates from much the same period.</p>
<p>There are some losses down the left-hand edge and particularly at the top corner. The picture has not yet been restored.</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
2004-07-21T00:00:00
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boat, yacht sea seascapes and coasts society transport: water