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| Museum's £100k appeal to buy lost Turner painting for Bristol | |
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| The oil painting was rediscovered during cleaning after being lost for 150 years | The oil painting was rediscovered during cleaning after being lost for 150 years |
| A museum has launched a one-week fundraiser to return JMW Turner's earliest-known oil painting "to its home". | |
| Bristol Museum and Art Gallery is trying to raise £100,000 to help purchase The Rising Squall, which depicts the Avon Gorge. | |
| The painting had been lost for 150 years before it was rediscovered last year. | The painting had been lost for 150 years before it was rediscovered last year. |
| Phillip Walker, head of culture for Bristol City Council, which is supporting the museum's plan, said: "It's an incredibly important and relevant painting for Bristol because it's the very first and probably only oil painting that Turner ever painted of a Bristol scene." | |
| Phillip Walker said: "This is a painting which should be in Bristol, it wouldn't work anywhere else." | Phillip Walker said: "This is a painting which should be in Bristol, it wouldn't work anywhere else." |
| "This is the very first oil painting he ever painted... what's more incredible is that he was only 17 at the time," Mr Walker added. | "This is the very first oil painting he ever painted... what's more incredible is that he was only 17 at the time," Mr Walker added. |
| The guide price for the painting is £300,000, and the museum hopes to raise the rest of the money from other sources before the auction on 2 July. | |
| Mr Walker said the council is "putting all of its feelers out" to "try and raise the money it can to stand a chance at bidding". | Mr Walker said the council is "putting all of its feelers out" to "try and raise the money it can to stand a chance at bidding". |
| The painting was debuted at the Royal Academy in 1793, three days after Turner's 18th birthday, before being bought by Reverend Robert Nixon, a customer of Turner's father's barber shop. | The painting was debuted at the Royal Academy in 1793, three days after Turner's 18th birthday, before being bought by Reverend Robert Nixon, a customer of Turner's father's barber shop. |
| Mr Nixon's son inherited the painting after his death, and it then fell "into obscurity", having last been exhibited in Tasmania, Australia. | Mr Nixon's son inherited the painting after his death, and it then fell "into obscurity", having last been exhibited in Tasmania, Australia. |
| If the bid is unsuccessful in purchasing Turner's work, all of the money that has been donated will be returned. | |
| "We want to make this work, so we're asking anyone who can to help and share the enthusiasm and the opportunity," Mr Walker said. | "We want to make this work, so we're asking anyone who can to help and share the enthusiasm and the opportunity," Mr Walker said. |
| "This really is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for Bristol to show how important art and culture are to it." | "This really is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for Bristol to show how important art and culture are to it." |
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