The painting turned out to be a watercolor by the English artist J.M.W. Turner. Born in 1775, Turner is “perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist,” as London’s National Gallery writes.

Turner was the most famous British artist ... as well as later works which show him using a variety of watercolour techniques – scratching out, sponging out and working freely in wet watercolour ...

Rather, watercolor was relegated to the realms of preparatory sketches and women’s domestic hobbies. Turner, however, not only went on to master the difficult traditional techniques of ...

A painting submitted by a member of the public through Christie’s “request an estimate” online appraisals service has turned out to be a prized watercolour by J.M.W. Turner. It will come to ...

A lost watercolour by one of Britain's greatest landscape artists has sold at auction for £96,000. The JMW Turner painting of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, was found "stuck among" a number of ...