1813
oil
canvas
From the collection of National Gallery
Frosty morning is a 1813 oil by Joseph Mallord William Turner, depicting Landscape, held at National Gallery.
Frosty Morning is a landscape painting. It was made by J.M.W. Turner in 1813. The painting is based on a sketch Turner made while traveling to Yorkshire. He drew it when his coach stopped, and it shows a winter scene with men working. To learn more about the style and methods used in this painting, look up the technique of glazing.
Frosty Morning is an 1813 landscape painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner. Based on a sketch made when Turner was journeying to Yorkshire and the coach paused, it depicts a bright but frosty early morning in winter and group of men clearing a ditch at the side of the road. It has been speculated that girl in the painting, with a hare stole around her shoulders, is modelled on Turner's eldest daughter Evelina. Moordy strongly disagrees: "Can it really be supposed that someone so aspirationally motivated, not to mention secretive to the point of obsession, put proof that he had an…
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It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1813 at Somerset House, where it was his most successful work that year. In 1818 Turner valued the work at 350 guineas but did not sell it. Part of the Turner Bequest of 1856, it is today in the collection of the Tate Britain.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in 1775 at Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, where his father kept a barber and wig-making shop.
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