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Campaign launched to bring only Turner oil painting of Bristol back to city The one-week campaign, named Bring Turner Home, aims to return the piece to the city.
Bristol City Council will attempt to raise around £300,000 to buy an 18th-century oil painting of Hotwells. The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, was painted by JMW Turner in 1792 and will be sold in an ...
Home The Finer Things Art and Antiques This obscure and unloved picture that turned out to be Turner's first oil painting — and it's about to sell for 500 times what it last cost JMW Turner's 'The ...
In July, an oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi made by Clare Leighton, an artist renowned for her wood engravings, will be auctioned for the first time — believed to be the only oil portrait of the ...
SA artist’s oil painting sells for a record R246m How the systematic defunding of the SA National Defence Force is bringing the armed forces to their knees.
Just Stop Oil's craziest protests: from spray painting Stonehenge to storming the West End A final protest has been set for next month as the organisation reflects on “a new strategy” ...
Some proceeds from the sale of Banksy's painting — inspired by the recently deceased Scottish painter Jack Vettriano — will go to Los Angeles wildfire victims.
Ecce Homo, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, has been found to be hiding a mysterious portrait of an unknown man.
Two women, representing climate activist group Just Stop Oil, have been arrested after spray-painting the grave of Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey in London.
Just Stop Oil activists have thrown soup over two Vincent van Gogh paintings just hours after their fellow protesters were sentenced to prison time for doing the same.