The Evening Star (painting)

The Evening Star is an 1830 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner.^[1] It features a coastal scene on a beach with a boy with a shrimping net wading out of the water to be greeted by his dog. It gained its title several decades after Turner painted it due to the presence of a single star visible in the sky.^[2]

The Evening Star
Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	c.1830
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	91.1 cm × 122.6 cm (35.9 in × 48.3 in)
Location	National Gallery, London
Accession	NG1991
Website	nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-evening-star

The painting was exhibited with other works by Turner at the Tate Gallery in 1906, where critics compared it to more recent works by James McNeill Whistler.^[3] It is in the possession of the National Gallery in London, having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.^[2]

See also

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