PROPERTY OF MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM B. MCILVAINE
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)

Brienne

Price realised USD 293,000
Estimate
USD 150,000 – USD 250,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)

Brienne

Price realised USD 293,000
Closed: 13 Apr 2016
Price realised USD 293,000
Closed: 13 Apr 2016
Details
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)
Brienne
pencil and watercolor and with scratching out
3 x 6 in. (7.6 x 15.2 cm.)
Provenance
John Dillon; Christie’s, London, 29 April 1869, lot 138, (140 gns.) to Vokins.
G. R. Burnett; Christie’s, London, 16 March 1872, lot 96 (145 gns.) to McLean.
Murrieta sale; Christie’s, London, 23 May 1873, lot 143.
K. Mackinlay; Christie’s, London, 24 June 1879, lot 138.
K. Mackinlay; Christie’s, London, 9 April 1880, lot 103 (64 gns.) to White.
Quincy Adams Shaw, and by descent to his daughter
Pauline Shaw Fenno, and by descent to
Marian Fenno McIlvaine, and by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Published as frontispiece for Sir Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, IX, 1835.
Sir Walter Armstrong, Turner, 1902, p. 284.
W. Thornbury, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner RA, 2nd edition, 1877, p. 560.
A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J. M. W. Turner, London, 1979, p. 431, no. 1104.
Engraved
W. Miller, for Scott’s Miscellaneous Prose, 1835 (R.527).

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