A fundraising campaign has been launched to bring one of the earliest works by JMW Turner back to the city of Bristol where ...

The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years. The Rising Squall features a dramatic view of a former hot spring and spa in ...

The painting made its debut at the Royal Academy in 1793, three days after Turner's 18th birthday, before being bought by Reverend Robert Nixon, a customer of his father's barber shop. Reverend ...

The latest (and current) is “J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality,” at the Yale Center for British Art. Its reason for being is the artist’s 250th birthday, and why not?

In 2024, a cracked and yellowing painting by an unknown artist that had been languishing in obscurity for more than 150 years sold at auction in England for $506, a few hundred less than the pre-sale ...

The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years. The Rising Squall features a dramatic view of a former hot spring and spa in Bristol ...

It has launched a one-week public fundraising campaign, called Bring Turner Home, to raise £100,000 towards the purchase of the painting, which will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s on July 2.

Up until the discovery last year during a restoration project, experts believed Turner's earliest exhibited oil was his Fisherman at Sea painting. Follow BBC Bristol on Facebook, X and Instagram.

Restoration work then took place – revealing the signature “W Turner” on the lower left of the canvas. Until that point, it had been believed that Turner’s earliest exhibited oil painting was a piece ...