J. M. W. Turner at a Drawing Table; verso: Mrs. Monro Asleep

Artist
nationality
British
birth-death
1759-1833
Creation date
Collection
Prints
Materials
pencil on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
7 1/8 x 6 1/4 in
Not Currently On View
Credit line
Bequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
Accession number
1996.155
Gallery Label

Turner never sat for a portrait, fearing that "people will say such a little fellow as this can never draw."

Like all Turner portraits, this first by Dr. Thomas Monro was surreptitiously taken as the artist sat at the drawing table copying a Cozens watercolor by candlelight in Monro's London townhouse one winter's evening between 1794 and 1797.

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