NAVIGATION ~O~ The discovery of JMW Turner's oil on canvas exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1793 ~O~ NAVIGATION

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00_10 A list of documents required for continuing research

00_20 Personal comments

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01_50 Opinions

02_00 St. Vincent's Rock (Rock-Complex Evidence)

05_00Sources, Sizes and Dates

06_00Rock-Complex Summary

06_50 Turner's Pre 1793 Oils were Stylistically Different from his Later Oils

07_10 To Determine The Identity of JMW Turner's 1793 Exhibit In The Anti-Room (Literary Evidence)

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07_20 Chronology of Literary Evidence

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07_30 1793 July to August: Evidence that the Rev. Robert Nixon of Foots Cray took posession of 'The 1793 Hotwells Oil'.

07_40 1852 Cunningham 'Memoir' preface to Burnet 'Turner and his Works': Evidence that 'The 1793 Hotwells Oil' was an oil which Cunningham called 'Rising Squall over St. Vincent's Rocks at Bristol'

07_50 1862 Thornbury, 'The Life of JMW Turner RA'

07_60 Christie Sale of 27th April 1864, Redford, CF Bell & Huskisson

07_70 Christie Sale of 9th July 1864, Redford, CF Bell & Hogarth

. . . . . 07_71 Reconstruction of 9 July 1864 Christie Sale Catalogue

07_80 September 1864 The Art Journal & 'Dr Nixon'

07_90 After September 1864, Loss Of 'The 1793 Hotwells Oil'

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08_00 Redgrave & CF Bell Sequence 1866 to 1905

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08_10 1877 Thornbury Second Edition

08_20 1878 Daryl

08_30 1887 Brockhaus

08_40 1879 Monkhouse

08_50 1896 Tennant

08_60 1902 Armstrong

. . . . . 08_61 1902 Armstrong - Notes

08_70 1902 Chignall

08_80 1905 Gilbert Redgrave

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09_00 1905 Wyllie

09_10 1910 Finberg 'Turners Sketches and Drawings'

09_20 1925 Purchase of the 'Bristol Watercolour'; Its history & e-mails for provenance information.

. . . . . 09_21 Notes on Courtauld Watercolour (see also 08_61)

. . . . . 09_22 Notes on Bristol Watercolour (see also 08_61)

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10_00 1793 Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue Evidence

10_05 1793 Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue Evidence - Anti-Room and Library

. . . . . 10_06 UNDER CONSTRUCTION List of 1793 Anti-Room pictures

. . . . . 10_07 UNDER CONSTRUCTION List of 1792 Anti-Room pictures

10_10 1793 Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue Evidence - Turner's Three Exhibits

10_15 1793 Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogues - The Three Catalogue Entries

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10_20 Combined Literary Evidence and the 1793 Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue

18_00 Review - St. Vincent's Rock, Style and 1793 RA Catalogue
. . . . . List of Turner's works at RA exhibitions 1790-1799
. . . . . List of Exhibition rooms and allocation of exhibit numbers 1788-1799

18_02 Review, continued - Evidence Arising From the Literary Study

. . . . . 18_04 Note on Persons who may have owned the oil after Reynolds

18_10 Intermediate Chronology of events leading up to the painting of the oil.

20_00 Background

20_10 Turner's First Oil, his First Oils on Canvas and 'A Watermill' on Paper

. . . . . 20_20 Oils on Panel from the Pre 1793 Period and oils where the substrate is unknown (under construction)

20_30 Sizes of Turners Work compared with Sizes Generally at the Exhibitions

. . . . . 20_50 Loans of Turner's 'early works' to Exhibitions and their appearances at auctions (under construction)

20_95 Chronology with background

30_00 Study of 'The St. Vincent's Rock Oil'

30_10 It is A Rising Squall

30_15 It is St. Vincent's Rock

30_17 It is The Right Size

30_20 It is a subject which fascinated Turner

30_40 Large view of The St. Vincent's Rock Oil.

30_50 ...cont., verso

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40_10 Sales and Exhibitions of Turner's Works; Graves, Redford, Sale Catalogues, Art Journal - References from various sources continually updated for early works.
40_14 Sales of the works of unknown painters

• 40_18 Sales of Turner's Works in Redford's 'Art Sales'
• 40_22 Sales of Turner's Works at Christies, 1913 to 1945; manuscript ledger; pictures and drawings and including the 'Unknown Painters' page
• 41_30 Sales of Turner's Works (oils only) at Agnews; Picture Stock Book 1891-1898 (all artists) - Turners entries extracted as a list and followed by manuscript pages relating to Turner
• 41_45 James - Extract of Turner's Biography and auction sales
• 41_50 Armstrong - Extract comprising the list of Turner's works. [publshed 1902]

42_01 & 42_02 Under Construction - The Art Journal

Catalogues of Sales and Exhibitions:

• 43_05 Christies sale 27th June 1891 - Drake - Country Waggon, Snowdon, (Snowden) see also 50_50
• 43-55 christie's sale 15th JULY 1893 - C.F. Reynolds
• 44_05 Burlington Exhibition 1871, Exhibitors include Drake, Heugh, Tite and Worthington

50_40 Analysis of the two1864 Sales; Huskisson, Hogarth and Fripp

50_50 After 1864 to the 'Drake' sale of 1891
. . . . . Waggoners, Snowdon ('Snowdon from Moel Madoc')
. . . . . Nixon, McCormick,Drake's address; see also 43_05

50_70 Possible Misidentification
. . . . . The Drake (deceased) Sale Catalogue 1891

59_50 Whereabouts of the picture over time

70_10 The collection of the Rev. Robert Nixon
. . . . . in the chronological order of aquisition
. . . . . Rochester,Canterbury,Rising Squall,Avon,Canterbury,Waltham Abbey,Snowdon,Nile

Specific Identifications:

The Rising Squall, oil, was sold at Christie's on 9th July 1864
The Proposition That Drake Bought 'The Rising Squall', oil.

Individual (Associated) Works:

List of RA Exhibits - Early Years; as an index to the individual works

Canterbury; St. Augustine's Gate two watercolours 1792 (exh. 1793) (B1975.4.1764 'Old Gate Of Canterbury' )()

Porch of Great Malvern Abbey, Worcestershire (exh. 1794)

The Country Waggon, Snowdon - early morning also called 'Snowdon, from Moel Madoc

View on the river Avon, near St. Vincent's rock, Bristol two watercolours (Bristol Museum: K816, 'Avon Gorge and Bristol Hotwell'. exh. 1793)(Courtauld Institute: D2007.DS.42 'The Avon Gorge at Bristol with the Old Hotwells House' )

Collectors (and associated works):

Summary of collectors with timelines
Collectors names index
First owners of JMW Turner works

The collectors:

• Mrs E. Berthon(alive.1891)[Canterbury, St. Augustine's Gate (ex 1793) & Old Gate of Canterbury]
• Douglas Family of Rochester
  • Rev. James Douglas
  • Margaret Martha Douglas (Whiteman, Tucker), daughter of Rev. James Douglas
  • Nephew of Margaret Martha Douglas (via Whiteman or Tucker)
  • Dr Hering (not part of the family but the Nephew sold him 'Rochester Castle and the adjacent grounds').
• Sir William Richard Drake (d.1890) [The Country Waggon][The Rising Squall (ex.1793)]
• Dr. Hering, see Douglas Family
• John Heugh(d.c.1878) [Porch of Great Malvern Abbey(ex.1794)]
• William Leighton Leitch& Family
• Nixon Family [The Country Waggon][The Rising Squall (ex.1793)]
  • Rev. Robert Nixon of Foots Cray
  • Rev. Dr. Francis Russell Nixon, son of Rev. Robert Nixon
• Sir William Tite

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