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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1917.214
People
Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)
Title
Rembrandt's Daughter
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Rembrandt's Daughter Reading a Letter
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1827
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231931

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
121.9 × 89.5 cm (48 × 35 1/4 in.)
framed: 159.4 × 127 × 11.4 cm (62 3/4 × 50 × 4 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • exhibition label: back of canvas, paper
  • exhibition label: back of canvas, paper
  • exhibition label: back of canvas, paper

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Royal Academy, London, sold; to Francis Hawksworth Fawkes, Farnley Hall, 1827, sold; to [Agnew and Knoedler], 1912, sold; to Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1917

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
1917.214
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Burnet and Peter Cunningham, Turner and his Works, D. Bogue (London, England, 1852), pp. 25-26, 29, 115, no. 140
  • George Walter Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Hurst and Blackett (London, England, 1862), ii, 85, 89-90, 165, 393
  • Walter Thornbury, The life of J. M. W. Turner, R.A.: founded on letters and papers furnished by his friends and fellow-academicians, Chatto & Windus (London, England, 1877), 237, 240, 312, 575, 589
  • Catalogue of the Farnley Hall Collection of Pictures and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. etc. Exhibited at Messrs. Lawrie & Co.'s Galleries, 159, New Bond Street, W.; The Proceeds to be Given to the King's Hospital Fund, Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co. (London, England, 1900 - 1901), p.4, no. 6
  • C. F. Bell, A List of the Works Contributed to Public Exhibit by J. M. W. Turner, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1901), p. 108, no. 153
  • Sir Walter Armstrong, Turner, T. Agnew and Sons/C. Scribner's Sons (London, England and New York, NY, 1902), pp. 57, 85, 119-120, 227
  • Alexander Joseph Finberg, Turner's Watercolors at Farnley Hall, The Studio, Ltd. (London, England, 1912), pp. 20, 21, no. 8
  • Edward Waldo Forbes and Laura Howland Dudley, "The Fogg Museum of Harvard University: Primitive Italian Pictures Recently Acquired by the Fogg Museum", Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, August 1913), Vol. 11, No. 64, p. 39
  • [Unidentified article], The International Studio (February 1916), repr. in color facing p. 278
  • William Thomas Whitley, Art in England, 1821-1837 (Cambridge, England, 1930), p. 131
  • A. F. Cochrane, [Unidentified article], Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, March 28, 1931), repr.
  • Bernard Falk, Turner the Painter: His Hidden Life, Hutchinson and Co., Ltd (London, England, 1938), p. 159
  • Alexander Joseph Finberg, The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A., The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1961), pp. 301, 487, no. 313
  • John Rothenstein and Martin Butlin, Turner, G. Braziller (New York, NY, 1964), p. 40, 44
  • Jack Lindsay, J.M.W. Turner, his Life and Work: a Critical Biography, New York Graphic Society (Greenwich, CT, 1966), pp. 165, 170
  • John Gage, Color in Turner: Poetry and Truth, Praeger (New York, NY, 1969), pp. 91, 167, 262, no. 116
  • Graham Reynolds, Turner, Harry N. Abrams and Co. (New York, NY, 1969), pp. 127-128
  • John Gage, Turner: Rain, Steam and Speed, Viking Press (New York, NY, 1972), pp. 50-51, fig. 30
  • Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner [1st ed.], Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1977), v.I: no. 238, pp. 132-3,253; v.II, repr. in b/w pl. 244
  • Andrew Wilton, J. M. W. Turner, His Art and Life, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1979), p. 272; no. P238 repr. b/w and text p. 205
  • Patrick Youngblood, "'That House of Art': Turner at Petworth", Turner Studies (Winter 1983), vol. II, no. 2, pp. 16-33, p. 17
  • Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner [2nd ed.], Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1984), vol I: no. 238, pp. 146-7, 185,187,281; v.II: repr., b/w pl. 244
  • Andrew Wilton, Turner in his Time, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1987), p. 166
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 132, 152, repr. b/w cat. no. 51
  • Silvia Ginzburg, Turner, Arch Cape Press (New York, NY, 1990), p. 43; color repro pl 23
  • Fred G.H. Bachrach, Turner's Holland, exh. cat., Tate Britain (London, England, 1994), repr. in color plate 12, p. 48
  • Marcia R. Pointon, Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2009), pp. 283-285, pl. 298, pls. 300-303 (details)
  • David Solkin, ed., Turner and the Masters, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, 2009), pp. 80, 170, 171, fig. 37
  • Francesca Bewer, A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA, 2010), p. 67, fig. 2.5

Exhibition History

  • Annual Exhibition, 1827, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1827 - 12/31/1827
  • Exhibition of Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1877 - 12/31/1877
  • The Farnley Hall Collection of Pictures and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, Lawrie & Co., London, 01/01/1902 - 12/31/1902
  • 3rd Exhibition of Fair Women, Grafton Galleries, London, 01/01/1910 - 12/31/1910
  • Turner and Gainsborough, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 01/14/1914 - 01/31/1914
  • A Survey of British Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 05/10/1938 - 06/12/1938
  • 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/12/2018 - 03/19/2019

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