Joseph Mallord William TurnerWalton Bridges ?exhibited 1807

Throughout his life, J.M.W. Turner painted the river Thames in all its various aspects: from the estuary, sunlit beneath a smoky sky, to the rivers winding passage through picturesque outlying towns and farmland. The artist depicted the semi-rural setting of the double bridge at Walton on Surrey on a number of occasions during the period when he lived downstream at Isleworth, between 1804 and 1806 (another painting of the bridge c.1806 is in the Lloyd Collection). Sketches for the Melbourne composition have been identified in one of the artist’s sketchbooks dating to 1805 (Tate Gallery, London) (1)… (read more)