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JMW TURNER COURTAULD WATERCOLOUR

The purpose of this page is to ensure that transactions and appearances involving 'The 1793 Hotwells Oil', the 'Bristol Watercolour' and the 'Courtauld Watercolour' are herein assigned correctly.

The provenance of the Courtauld watercolour has never been merged or mixed; the Courtauld Watercolour has never been described as 'The Rising Squall'. The only issue is with the 'Bristol Watercolour' which was purchased in 1925 as ''Hotwell House" and was believed, from some time later, to be 'The Rising Squall'. The information on this page emerged from a series of e-mails with the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. To see the e-mails click [_SEE_BRISTOL WATERCOLOUR_].

THE COURTAULD WATERCOLOUR

In Hutton's 'Bristol and its Famous Associations' (1907) it is said that a Turner drawing 'The Old Hotwell House in 1791' is in the posession of the Fine Arts Academy. This cannot have been Turner's title; because the 'new' Hotwells house had not yet been built. As the book is about Bristol the Fine Art Academy must be the 'Bristol Fine Art Academy' and it is found, looking back to 1906, that this drawing was exhibited at Whitechapel Art Gallery No.108 as 'Hotwells'. Going back to Armstrong, published in 1902 the watercolour is listed as 'Bristol: Old Hot-wells House. Circa 1791'; 'Vessels ascending Avon, full sail'; '[Bristol Art Academy, ex Narraway family.]. Information in the Bristol e-mails and the provenance supplied by Courtauld Institute gives the following list of whereabouts and transactions:

1791 'Courtauld Watercolour' painted by Turner

1791 given by JMW Turner to John Narraway

1860 BY DESCENT from John Narraway to his niece Miss Ann Dart

THEN by gift or private sale from Miss Ann Dart to 'A subscription of Ladies'

1897 by gift (presentation) from 'A subscription of Ladies' to Bristol Fine Art Academy (later Royal West of England Academy)

1902 Literary ref: as 'Bristol: Old Hot-wells House. circa 1791' (Sir Walter Armstrong 'Turner' (pub: Thomas Agnew and Sons (London))

1906 Exhibited as 'Hotwells' at Whitechapel Art Gallery No. 108.

1907 Literary ref: as 'The Old Hotwell House in 1791' (Hutton's 'Bristol and its Famous Associations')

1931 by private sale from Bristol Fine Art Academy to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

1958 deaccessioned at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

1960 (May) by private sale from Bristol Museum and Art Gallery to Frost & Reed (Bristol and London)

1960 (November) by sale from Frost & Reed to Miss Katherine Gotch Robinson, Westbury on Trym

1978 by sale (Osmond Tricks and Son (Bristol) 16th November 1978, lot 92) seller:Miss Katherine Gotch Robinson; buyer: Thomas Agnew and Sons (London).

1980 by sale from Thomas Agnew and Sons (London) to Miss Dorothy Scharf (1942-2004), London

2004 Executors of Miss Dorothy Scharf

2007 by bequest of Miss Dorothy Scharf, Executors of Miss Dorothy Scharf to Coutauld Institute.

2019 Internet Page as 'The Avon Gorge at Bristol with the Old Hot Wells House'

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