about a painting by Turner,
so he took trouble to conceal her from his illustrious contemporaries, which meant that some of his latter works were dismissed, the subsequent discovery of the relationship caused dismay in the uptight Victorian art world, and the details – including the origin of the seascapes – were suppressed, even in the Fifties, when the paintings were donated to the National Museum Wales, the prejudice remained,
but now a revelation, today, the three oil paintings that have spent most of their lives locked away in cupboards and a basement can be revealed as genuine works by the British landscape genius J.M.W. Turner, the three works – The Beacon Light, Off Margate and Margate Jetty – were collectively worth a few thousand pounds at most, but now their value has soared to, wait for it, an estimated £16 million, if only one of my relatives had bought one on the cheap!
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