JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. | WHALLEY BRIDGE AND ABBEY, LANCASHIRE: DYERS WASHING AND DRYING CLOTH

Probably commissioned by Thomas Lister Parker (1779–1858)

J. Newington Hughes Esq.

His sale, London, Christie’s, 15 April 1847, lot 145, to Brown

Wynn Ellis (1790–1875), by 1850/51

His sale, London, Christie’s, 6 May 1876, lot 118, to Agnew on behalf of Lord Overstone

Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone (1796–1883)

Thence by inheritance to his son-in-law Brigadier-General Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, VC, KCB, VD (1832–1901), Lockinge, Oxfordshire

Thence by descent

G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, II, p. 298

G. Redford, Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures at Lockinge House, London 1875, (supplementary) no. 76

F. Bell, A List of Works Contributed to Public Exhibitions by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London1901, pp. 63, 90, no. 123

Sir W. Armstrong, Turner, London 1902, pp. 109, 237

G. Temple, A catalogue of the pictures forming the collection of Lord and Lady Wantage, London 1902, pp. 168–89, no. 239, reproduced (reprinted 1905)

Anon., Guide to the Pictures at Lockinge House, 1928 (A. T. Loyd’s collection), p. 11

Anon., Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of British Art, 1935, no. 365, pl. CII

A. J. Finberg, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 2^nd ed., revised by H. F. Finberg, Oxford 1961, pp. 180, 421 and 473, no. 164

L. Parris, The Loyd Collection of Paintings and Drawings, London 1967, p. 45, no. 62, reproduced

L Herrmann, Turner: Paintings, Watercolours, Prints and Drawings, Boston 1975, pp. 20, 229, pl. 66

M. Butlin and E. Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, 2 vols, New Haven and London 1984, text vol., pp. 83–84, no. 117, plates vol., reproduced pl. 124

F. Russell, The Loyd Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, p.p. 1991, p. 28, no. 62, reproduced pl. 26