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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Claire Hayhurst

Campaign launched to bring only Turner oil painting of Bristol back to city

The artwork will go up for auction at Sotheby’s (Sotheby’s/PA) -

A fundraising campaign has been launched to bring one of the earliest works by JMW Turner back to the city of Bristol where the artist painted it when he was 17 years old.

The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol, had remained tucked away in private collections since it was last exhibited in Tasmania, Australia, in 1858.

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