Schloss Rosenau (painting)

Schloss Rosenau
ArtistJ. M. W. Turner
Year1841
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions97.2 cm × 124.8 cm (38.3 in × 49.1 in)
LocationSudley House, Liverpool

Schloss Rosenau is an 1841 landscape painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner.[1] It depicts a view of Schloss Rosenau in Coburg in Germany. The castle was the birthplace and ancestral home of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Turner sketched the castle on his journey back from Venice in 1840 and then worked up the scene into an oil painting.[2]

It was produced the year that Albert married Queen Victoria. Turner may have hoped the couple would buy the painting, but they did not. It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition at the National Gallery in London. It was subsequently bought by Joseph Gillott.[3] Today it is in the collection of the National Museums Liverpool at Sudley House.[4]

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  • Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises, 2013.
  • Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
  • Stainton, Lindsay. Turner's Venice. British Museum, 1985.