Government issues export bar for JMW Turner landscape in hope of finding UK buyer

One of the few large-scale oil paintings by JMW Turner (1775-1851) left in private hands has been barred from export in the hope of finding a buyer in the UK.

The painting, depicting the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein a military ruin perched on a rock above Cobl…

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