The Evening Star (painting)
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| 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 |
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 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]
