A landscape with an old oak (or beech) tree
Formerly attributed to Joseph Mallord William Turner British
Not on view
This watercolour relates to a group that Turner painted at or near Norbury Park, Surrey in the mid seventeen-nineties. The young artist had been commissioned to paint an image of the fern house at Norbury by William Lock (1732–1810) and exhibited a related watercolor at the Royal Academy in 1798. Lock, himself a keen amateur artist, had employed Thomas Sandby to build Norbury Park in the late 1770s and commissioned George Barret to carry out the decorations. A prominent single old large tree stands at the center of the drawing in an open park, with additional trees beyond. A windmill is seen in the center distance, below the branches with sheep lying at the edge of the grass.
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