A lost watercolour by one of Britain's greatest landscape artists has sold at auction for £96,000. The JMW Turner painting of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, was found "stuck among" a number of ...
Turner turned to landscape painting at the age of 17 ... before travelling abroad through Europe. His 1797 watercolour Crummock Water Looking Towards Buttermere from the viewpoint formed the ...
Born in 1775, Turner was an English romantic painter renowned for his paintings of the country's landscapes and architecture. Turner toured Wales in 1795 aged 20, and is known to have visited St ...
The free exhibition includes a watercolour of Edinburgh ... with technique and colour, creating landscapes that still astonish today. In his younger years Turner toured Britain extensively ...
Explaining the display, curator Dr Thomas Ardill said in creating his landscapes, Turner had unwittingly been "recording the early stages of climate and ecological breakdown as he travelled across ...