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Five Turner works to be auctioned on 250th anniversary of painter’s birth

A watercolour titled Lake Brienz, With The Setting Moon, is estimated to fetch between £600,000 and £800,000.

Evening Standard · Jun 4, 2025

Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on

The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or since

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2025

No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner – he’s Britain’s greatest artist

IN FOCUS: It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured paintings have never been surpassed, says Mark Hudson

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2025

Two Turner paintings set to return to Britain for the first time in a century

The paintings from the mid 1820s will feature in a special exhibition at the National Gallery this winter.

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2022

Light: Works from the Tate's Collection honours the body and its sensations – this is art which is meant to be felt

Review: Light: Works from The Tate’s Collection, ACMI

The Conversation · Jun 27, 2022