News about William Turner

Gardening, they say, is good for stress. Frazzled souls can be soothed by spending time in the veggie patch or flower beds. Much as one wishes this attractive theory were true, it must have been devised by some lucky sap who never encountered bindweed.

JMW Turner's 'lost' masterpiece, which was bought for just £100 and hung up on an oblivious couple's dining room wall, has now sold for nearly £50,000. The lucky owners of a Georgian mansion in the 1990s unknowingly purchased a watercolour painting by the celebrated English artist at a auction sale. The married couple hung it on their dining room wall for the next 30 years, unaware of the vitality of the stunning portrayion of St David's Cathedral in Wales. Despite the fact that W Turner was on the back, they never guessed it was Joseph Mallory William Turner, one of the twentieth century's best landscape designers whose work sells for up to £30 million. It has now been sold at Cheffins, a Cambridge-based auction house, for £37,000. With fees paid in, the winning bidder received £48,000 for it.

At auction, an old watercolour painting that was originally bought for £100 would sell for £30,000 - after it was discovered by the artist Joseph Mallord Turner. The photograph - of Bishop Vaughan's chapel at St Davids Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales, was purchased following a clear-out of pictures from a Georgian mansion in Suffolk in the early 1990s. It was bought for less than £100 and remained relatively unchanged on its new owner's wall for the next 30 years.

ICHARD EDEN: Art enthusiasts eager to see paintings by Turner and Reynolds at an exhibition have been warned by racist imagery, which has prompted the Royal Academy to issue a warning about it. Visitors to Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism, and Change have all been reported. The new book will have themes of slavery and racial identity, as well as historical racial language and imagery,' according to the Woke curators. Lubaina Himid, a contemporary artist whose work is also on display, said that some of the paintings were 'difficult.' But she also said that the show was a "huge, wealthy, layered filling in of gaps" in how black people had contributed to Britain. The trigger warning appears on the exhibition website and will be on display at the show, which runs from February 3 to £22.

In the 'Story Space' section of the free-to-enter bookstore, graphic novels and comic books about kids flattening their breasts, hormone injections, and girls trying to urinate standing up can be found. Last night, critics accused Tate Britain's bosses of being "adult intellectual liberals attempting to sell their own fears to children." Rick, a story that is targeted at eight to twelve year olds about a teen who discovers he is asexual, is one of the Story Space books. It was written by Alex Gino, a 45-year-old transgender writer. At his preschool, the main character, Rick, begins attending the Rainbow Spectrum Club, where young children gather to discuss their sexuality and gender. Rick is introduced to transgender children and learns that he is asexual by the time.

Melita Cupitt, 22, of Warwick, south-west of Brisbane, died about 7.55 p.m. on Friday after her vehicle ploughed ran off a country road south-west of Brisbane. Ms Cupitt sustained critical injuries and was pronounced dead on the scene by emergency service personnel. Her sudden death has sparked an extraordinary outpouring of love from the local community, including Jake Mathers (pictured on right), who has shared a series of emotional photos and videos. 'You have made me so happy and made me want to be a better person,' Mr Mathers said.