Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley HallFinberg, A. J. (Alexander Joseph)
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Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley Hall
Finberg, A. J. (Alexander Joseph)
Fawkes, Walter Ramsden Hawksworth, 1769-1825 -- Art collections; Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
_Rembrandt’s Daughter_ is the only picture in the Farnley Collection
which was bought by Mr. Walter Fawkes’s son, Mr. Hawksworth Fawkes. It
was not well chosen. It shows Turner as an imitator and humble admirer
of other artists, rather than as the great creative genius he was. It is
not a typical work of the artist, but it throws an interesting
side-light on the moods of hesitation and tentative experiment in which
he occasionally indulged. Rembrandt and his wife are supposed to be
surprising their daughter--an entirely mythical personage--while she is
reading a love-letter. There are some fine passages of colour in the
girl’s dress. The picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1827.
EARLY SWISS DRAWINGS.
9. Glacier and Source of the Arveiron, going up to the Mer de
Glace. Exhibited R.A. 1803. 27” × 40".
10. The Great Fall of the Reichenbach; in the valley of Hasle,
Switzerland. Signed and dated “J. M. W. Turner, R.A., 1804.”
Exhibited R.A. 1815. 40” × 27". (Plate IX.)
11. The Passage of Mount St. Gothard; taken from the centre of the
Teufels Broch (Devil’s Bridge), Switzerland. Signed and dated “J.
M. W. Turner, R.A., 1804.” Exhibited R.A. 1815. 40½” × 27".
12. Blair’s Hut on the Montanvert, and Mer de Glace, Chamounix. 11”
× 15".
13. The Valley of Chamounix. Signed and dated “J. M. W. Turner,
R.A., p.p., 1809(?).” 11¼ × 15⅝". (Plate III.)
14. Lake of Thun. 11” × 15½".
15. The Staubbach, Valley of Lauterbrunnen. Signed and dated “J. M.
W. Turner, 1809.” 11” × 15".
16. The Lake of Brienz: Moonlight. Signed “J. M. W. Turner, R.A.”
11” × 15½". (Plate XII.)
17. Bonneville, Savoy. 11” × 15⅜". (Plate I.)
18. Vevey, Lake of Geneva. 11” × 15½". (Christie’s, 1890; Sir
Donald Currie.)
19. Sallenches. 11” × 15½". (Christie’s, 1890; Humphrey Roberts’s
sale, May, 1908.)
20. Chamounix; Mer de Glace. 11” × 13½". (Christie’s, 1890;
Humphrey Roberts’s sale, May, 1908.)
21. Lausanne and Lake of Geneva. 11¼” × 15½". Signed and dated “J.
M. W. Turner, R.A., 1807.” (Christie’s, 1890; A. J. Forbes-Leith,
Esq.)
22. Source of the Arveiron. 11” × 15½". (Christie’s, 1890; Turner
House, Penarth, Pyke-Thompson Bequest.)
23. Lake of Lucerne, from Flüelen. 26½” × 39½". (Christie’s, 1890;
Sir Donald Currie.)
24. MontBlanc, from the Vald’Aosta. 26” × 39½". (Christie’s, 1810;
Sir Donald Currie.)
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