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The Fountain of Indolence
The Fountain of Indolence is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. First exhibited in 1834, it is now in the collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Subject.
The painting depicts a scene described in Canto 1 of James Thomson's 1748 poem "The Castle of Indolence". 
Thus easy-rob'd, they to the fountain sped
That in the middle of the court up-threw
A stream, high spouting
a "first-rate" Turner painting for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, which was to open the following year in Fredericton. He purchased "The Fountain of Indolence" from the dealers Leggatt Brothers of London. The painting became central to a dispute that developed in 2004 between the Gallery and the Beaverbrook UK Foundation, which claimed ownership of 133 paintings that had been acquired by Lord Beaverbrook for the Gallery. The Foundation proposed to take back and sell "The Fountain of Indolence", which Sotheby's had valued in 2002 at