AFTER JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER | Champtoceaux from the East, River Loire, France

Annetta Milling (1931-2014); thence by descent to the present owner 

This work is a fine copy after Turner's watercolour of the same time, which is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. That work dates to circa 1826-30 and was engraved in 1832, alongside twenty-one other views of the River Loire, for Charles Heath’s publication: Turner’s Annual Tour: ‘Wanderings by the Loire.’¹

Although it is not possible to be certain who painted the present work, the artist may well have been a pupil of John Ruskin. Ruskin owned Turner’s watercolour between 1858 and 1861, before he presented it to the Ashmolean. Artist’s working in under Ruskin’s influence included, amongst others: Isabella Jay, Dawtrey Drewitt May Alcott, Kathleen Olander and William Ward. For information on Annetta Milling, please see lot 38.

1. See: Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, London 1997, p. 227, no. 113

We are grateful to Ian Warrell for his help when cataloguing this work