Joseph Mallord William Turner

Miklos Rajnai1 relates this study, made with the page turned horizontally, to a small oil painting of a gypsy encampment (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).2 That and a companion picture3 have been associated with an entry in the artist Joseph Farington’s diary for 30 October 1799: ‘Turner called. Has been in Kent painting from Beech Trees.’4 There seems little likelihood that the study catalogued here dates from so late in the decade, and there is no specific visual similarity to confirm a connection.