Early Turner painting rediscovered after a signature emerges during cleaning
The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol had been unidentified for about 150 years. Cleaning revealed a signature after the work sold for just over £500 in 2024. Specialists attributed the painting to the young J.M.W. Turner, and Sotheby’s offered it in London in July 2025.
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