Frosty Morning

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.^[1] It depicts a bright but frosty early morning in winter and group of men clearing a ditch at the side of the road. The girl in the painting, with a hare stole around her shoulders, is believed to be modelled on Turner's eldest daughter Evelina.^[2]

Frosty Morning
Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1813
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	113.5 cm × 174.5 cm (44.7 in × 68.7 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London

It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1813 at Somerset House, where it was his most successful work.^[3] John Constable's friend and patron John Fisher considered it the only work on display that year better than Constable's own paintings, describing it as a "picture of pictures".^[4] In 1818 Turner valued the work at 350 guineas but did not sell it.^[5] Part of the Turner Bequest of 1856, it is today in the collection of the Tate Britain.^[6]

See also

• List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner