Museum buys ‘stunning’ Turner at auction
Published January 18th, 2008
A WATERCOLOUR by one of Britain’s most important painters has been acquired by The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle.
Bowes Tower, Yorkshire, by JMW Turner, was bought at auction for £30,500.
Summer sketching tours were part of Turner’s annual routine and he first toured the North of England in 1797, making sketches in Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland. www.gazettelive.co.uk
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