JMW TURNER
Definitive Event Dates 1791-1793

A study to determine definitive dates for events related JMW Turner from 1791 to 1793. March delivery dates for the exhibitions are approximate and could be as late as mid April.

More definitive dates are shown in Finberg (1939) and these two sets of information will be merged as soon as possible.

1791
During this year JMW Turner visited the Narraways (Bristol Tour) and compiled his 'Bristol and Malmesbury' Sketchbook. The sketchbook is dated by an inscription on D00104.
He completed two works which remained in Bristol with the Narraway family:

• A small portrait of himself
• A watercolour-drawing now at Courtauld Institute: D2007.DS.42 'The Avon Gorge at Bristol with the Old Hotwells House'

1792 (January)
14th January 1792: The fire at the Pantheon, Oxford Street. Turner's watercolour-drawing, 'The Pantheon, the morning after the fire' was exhibited at the 1792 RA Exhibition No. 472 in the Antique Room. Its size: 15" x 20".

1792 (March)
Turner delivered two works to the Royal Academy for the 1792 Exhibition. Their titles were recorded in Graves' 'List of Contributors' vol 8 page 33:

• 'The Pantheon, the morning after the fire'
• 'Malmesbury Abbey'

1793 (March)
Turner delivered three works to the Royal Academy for the 1793 Exhibition. Their titles were recorded in Graves' 'List of Contributors' vol 8 page 33:

• 'View on the river Avon, near St. Vincent's rock, Bristol'
• 'Gate of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury'
• 'The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol'