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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Turner paintings not seen in UK for 100 years to go on show at National Gallery

A detail from JMW Turner’s painting Cologne: the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening.
A detail from JMW Turner’s painting Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening. Photograph: Michael Bodycomb/The Frick Collection, New York

Two oil paintings by one of Britain’s greatest artists that have not been seen in the UK for more than 100 years will go on display at the National Gallery later this year.

The paintings by JMW Turner are of European scenes that feature the artist’s trademark expanses of water and sky.

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