J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Views in Sussex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Beauport 1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beauport’ 1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Beauport 1810
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Turner Bequest CXXXVIII 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 202 x 328 mm
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVIII 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Beauport House, near Hastings, was built by General James Murray and named after Beauport in Canada where he had served as Governor, 1763–7. The estate was bought by James Bland Burgess in 1794. The house was destroyed by fire in 1923 and rebuilt in 1926.

Turner’s drawing looks past the house on the right towards the coastline stretching away towards Dungeness. It served as the basis for the watercolour made for John Fuller in 1810 (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)1 and aquatinted by Joseph Stadler for Four Large Coloured Views in Sussex published circa 1818.
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Wilton 1979, p.349 no.434.
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David Blayney Brown
April 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Beauport 1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-beauport-r1131385, accessed 22 November 2024.