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A Sunny Morning

Oil Painting
1811 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil painting on canvas depicting a heat haze mingling with mist rising from the water early on a sunny morning.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Sunny Morning
Materials and techniques
oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil painting on canvas entitled 'A Sunny Morning' by Sir Augustus Wall Callcott. Great Britain, 1811.
Physical description
Oil painting on canvas depicting a heat haze mingling with mist rising from the water early on a sunny morning.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 27in
  • Estimate width: 35.75in
  • Framed height: 75cm
  • Framed width: 100cm
Dimensions taken from Summary catalogue of British Paintings, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Callcott was one of the most successful painters of his day, and this is an excellent and typical example of his work. He was a great friend of J.M.W.Turner, and indeed used the composition of an 1808 Turner riverscape in this composition, but in reverse. But he was never a mere copyist, and indeed Turner was inspired by Callcott's work in return. Callcott was criticised on occasion for aiming at artistic 'effect' rather than recording nature, but this is to misunderstand his intentions: his interest was principally in the depiction of light and atmosphere in their many forms - here, a heat haze mingling with mist rising from the water early on a sunny morning.

Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 20-21
Collection
Accession number
FA.15[O]

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Record createdDecember 15, 1999
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