| Frosty Morning | |
| Artist: | J. M. W. Turner |
| Year: | 1813 |
| Type: | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Height Metric: | 113.5 |
| Width Metric: | 174.5 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | London |
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]
It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's 1813 Summer Exhibition 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]