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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
Raby Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Darlington, exhibited 1818
Oil on canvas; 46 7/8 x 71 1/8 in. (119 x 180.6 cm)
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
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Turner visited Raby Castle in autumn 1817, having received a commission from the third Earl of Darlington to paint a view of his country home. He based this painting on one of his sketches from this visit. The work was not well received by the critics when Turner exhibited it at the Royal Academy the following year along with The Field of Waterloo—"the still more detestable fox hunting picture, which we consider a disgrace to his talents," wrote one. X-radiographs of this painting reveal that the foreground was dominated by a large fox-hunting scene, which Turner painted over at the earl's request.
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