Some 127 years have passed since J.M.W. Turner’s watercolor of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard last came to auction. Previously in the collection of an English shipping titan who owned 57 of Turner’s watercolors and 14 of his oils, the landscape was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2001-2. When Bonhams offers it in a London sale of 19th Century Paintings on January 25th, it’s expected to realize $309,000-$463,000.
Update: The watercolor sold within estimates, for $338,932.
The sale also includes a number of Dutch works, including Frederick Marinus Kruseman’s summer landscape with cattle near a river (est. $31,000-$46,000), Paul Joseph Contantin Gabriel’s scene of a walker beside a canal (est. $23,000-$31,000), and Johan Barthold Jongkind’s rendering of a canal in Winter ($31,000-$46,000).
