Famous JMW Turner painting set to fetch up to £600,000 at auction

JMW Turner's The Lauerzersee With The Ruins Of Schwanau And The Mythen, Switzerland that will be auctioned in July - (Christie's)

A "luminous" watercolour painting by JMW Turner, depicting a Swiss landscape, is poised to fetch up to £600,000 at an upcoming Christie's auction.

Since the British artist's death in 1851, his watercolours from final tours of Switzerland have been among his most celebrated and highly prized works on paper.