J.M.W. Turner
Van Tromp's Shallop
c. 183292.3 x 122.5 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 587
Provenance
Purchased 1833 at the time of the Royal Academy of Arts (London) exhibition by Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1795-1865), Novar, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6 April 1878, nr. 101
bought by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, for Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Ashgrove, Kent
by descent to Robert Kirkman Hodgson, Gavelacre, Hampshire
sold 1893 to Thos. Agnew & Sons, London
purchased the same year by Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st bt. (1823-1906), The Glen, near Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland
by descent to his grandson, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd baron Glenconner (1899-1983), The Glen
sold July 1923 to Charles Carstairs for M. Knoedler & Co., London, from whose New York branch it was purchased November 1923 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
gift by 1937 to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901-1969), New York
bequest 1970 to NGA
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Harewood Castle from the south east
Keelmen Heaving in Coals
1835
1835
Venice: Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore
1834
1834
Approach to Venice
c. 1843
c. 1843
Antwerp: Van Goyen Looking Out for a Subject
1833
1833