The sale of a scenic J.M.W. Turner painting of a canal in Venice has set a new record for the sale of British art. A private telephone bidder purchased Turner's Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and ...

“Turner’s views of Venice are among the ... The book includes the artist’s renderings of St Mark’s Basilica, the Dorsoduro district, the Giudecca canal and the Fondamente Nove area ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851 ... overlaying—as in the small watercolor “Venice, the Mouth of the Grand Canal” (c. 1840)—soft browns, grays ...

A painting by JMW Turner has set a new record auction price for a British artist, selling for $35.8m (£20.5m) at auction in New York. The view of Venice, called Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San ...

Two 19th Century paintings thought to be of the romantic city of Venice, are actually views of the more rugged British naval port of Portsmouth. The landscape paintings by British artist JMW Turner ...

Storm at the Mouth of the Grand Canal, Venice, circa 1840, is a watercolour by Joseph Mallord William Turner ... Hazlitt had woundingly dismissed Turner’s paintings as “pictures of nothing ...

Unfinished works by JMW Turner will go on show in an exhibition ... nudes he painted during a visit to Rome, as well as paintings of Venice, seascapes, oil paintings and sketchbooks.

But admirers of JMW Turner might assume ... perhaps the most romantic city in Hampshire. For two Turner paintings - Festive Lagoon Scene, Venice (1840-5) and Procession of Boats with Distant ...

A rare, rediscovered watercolor by JMW Turner ... attribution to an artist as renowned as Turner has inflated the painting’s price tag by around 10 times. The Approach to Venice or Venice ...

JMW Turner’s luminous, shimmering paintings shocked the Victorians ... the grand cityscapes of Rome or Venice, and a steam-powered locomotive hurtling through the elements along a railway ...