Featured Collection of attributed watercolors

Could the paintings have been taken out of the frames at some point, and put back in the wrong frame?

 

Artist
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851)

Title
Rochester on the Medway
Object type painting
Medium oil on canvas
Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art

then why is the one i show........ in a museum?

 

Cookie is a big time gangster art thief

 

I'm not on my pc but why can't I see any signatures ?

 

The one marked Callow is a copy of this Turner watercolour, rather than of the oil sketch : very exact copied in some areas, especially the water, unfinished in others, especially the Cathedral:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-rochester-on-the-river-medway-d18156

 

Think the first painting attributed to Caswell is wrongly attributed as Debora suggests,but possibly by Italian artist Giuseppe Carelli 1858-1921.His signatures vary a lot but some are very similar to one on first painting.

 

Ditto.

 

Here's a Giuseppe Carelli of a market scene. (Venice.) The signature does appear to be similar.

Debora

 

Thank you Debra, this is most helpful

 

Yep that's me....lol I often travel to Indianapolis from Washington.

 

Not saying it is a Turner. Could be a study, could be an after. Either way it is done well.

 

Only one has a signature. Even the one Rochester on the Medway doesn't appear to be signed.

 

Signature on Giuseppe Carelli painting ( Palace at the Bay of Palermo) possibly a nearer match?

 

Better photos out of the horrible mountings.
Larger ones are apprx 7" x 10" smaller 5" x 7"

 

More

 

The Turner looks a like is laid down.

 

Interestingly Ruskin had some pupils whom he encouraged to make very close copies of Turner's watercolours. He wrote of Rochester On The Medway

"Ugly in subject, but one of his consummate drawings, and the
best example for students of all the three. If, however,
they can at all succeed in copying a piece, either of the
Dover, Shields, or this, they will have reached some under¬
standing of Turner; whereas they may copy many of the
oil pictures without clearly seeing in what his greatness
consisted."