Joseph Mallord William TurnerVereinigtes Königreich, 1775–1851Frosty morning
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Frosty Morning is an 1813 landscape painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner. Based on a sketch made when Turner was journeying to Yorkshire and the coach paused, it depicts a bright but frosty early morning in winter and group of men clearing a ditch at the side of the road.
It has been speculated that girl in the painting, with a hare stole around her shoulders, is modelled on Turner's eldest daughter Evelina. Moordy strongly disagrees: "Can it really be supposed that someone so aspirationally motivated, not to mention secretive to the point of obsession, put proof that he had an illegitimate daughter in plain sight within a canvas destined for the walls of the Royal Academy?"
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The catalogue listing includes a single a line of verse, taken from James Thomson's famous poem The Seasons: The rigid hoar frost melts before his beam. The "hoar" refers to the feathery frost that forms in damp mornings.
The recent suicide of the 16 year old son of one of his best friends and patron MP Walter Fawkes may have had an effect on the choice of subject and emotion.
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Im Leben von Joseph Mallord William Turner
Das ganze Leben1806–1819
Work on the “Liber Studiorum”
For nearly twelve years he worked on about 70 mezzotints — the “Book of Studies”, inspired by Claude’s Liber Veritatis and meant as a manifesto of British landscape art; commercially it failed because of poor handling of sales and distribution, but it did elevate the prestige of landscape painting.
1807–1811
A floating studio at Hammersmith
Inspired by the Thames, he rented houses on or very near the river: in Isleworth (1804–1806) and in Hammersmith (1807–1811), where he converted a boat into a floating studio; fishing and boating were two of his favourite activities.
1808–1824
Summers at Walter Fawkes’s Farnley Hall
From 1808 to 1824 he stayed many summers at Farnley Hall near Otley in Yorkshire with its owner Walter Fawkes, becoming almost part of the family, with a room assigned for his exclusive use.
1811
Builds Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham
He bought a plot of land in Twickenham and built a house he named Sandycombe Lodge.
1811
First public lecture at the Academy
Three years after being elected Professor of Perspective he gave his first public lecture at the Royal Academy Schools, presenting ideas on subjects well beyond perspective, including the role of poetry in painting; he was a poor lecturer and the audience had trouble understanding him, but students valued his advice in studio classes.
1811
Birth of Georgiana, Sarah Danby’s daughter
Georgiana, the second of Sarah Danby’s two older daughters, was born in 1811; like Evelina, she is generally believed to have been Turner’s daughter.
