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[[File:Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) - Moonlight, a Study at Millbank - N00459 - National Gallery.jpg|thumb|300px|[[J. M. W. Turner]], ''Moonlight, a Study at Millbank'', {{circa|1797}}, [[Tate Gallery]]]]
'''''Moonlight, a Study at Millbank''''' is an oil painting by [[J. M. W. Turner]], painted {{circa|1797}}. The [[nocturne (painting)|nocturne]] is painted in oils on a [[mahogany]] board which measures {{cvt|31.4|×|40.3|cm|in}}.  It has been held by the [[Tate Gallery]] since 1910.
The work depicts a nighttime view of the [[River Thames]] from [[Millbank]], near the current location of [[Tate Britain]], with the low Moon glinting on the water and silhouetting buildings, trees, and boats. Turner exhibited the painting at the Royal Academy in 1797, the year after his first work was shown there: another maritime nocturne, ''[[Fishermen at Sea]]''.
The painting was left to the British nation as part of the [[Turner Bequest]], then titled "River Scene Moonlight".  It was transferred to the new National Gallery of British Art (now the Tate Gallery) in 1910.  For many years, this painting was mistakenly considered to be the first oil painting that Turner had exhibited, until ''Fishermen at Sea'' was identified.
==See also==
* [[List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner]]
==References==
* [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/moonlight-a-study-at-millbank-117671 ''Moonlight, a Study at Millbank'', Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)], ArtUK
* [https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-moonlight-a-study-at-millbank-n00459 Joseph Mallord William Turner, ''Moonlight, a Study at Millbank'', exhibited 1797], Tate
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