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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
Mortlake Terrace, the Seat of William Moffatt, Esq.; Summer's Evening, exhibited 1827 Oil on canvas; 36 1/4 x 48 1/8 in. (92 x 122 cm)
Oil on canvas; 36 1/4 x 48 1/8 in. (92 x 122 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937
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Turner painted two complementary views of the estate of William Moffatt (ca. 1754–1831) at Mortlake, west of London. One, exhibited in 1826, looks downriver toward Moffatt's Neoclassical residence; the painting shown here, exhibited in 1827, is based on a vantage point from within the house, looking in the opposite direction toward Kew. Both works share a yellow tonality, which prompted a contemporary critic to suggest that Turner was "desperately afflicted" with "what we may call a yellow fever." The black dog, silhouetted on the terrace, was painted on a sheet of paper that had been affixed to the canvas—an intervention variously ascribed to Turner and to the artist Edwin Landseer, who was said to have acted during Turner's absence on Varnishing Day.
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