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Author of J.M.W. Turner Self-Portrait Questioned: Morning Links

Author of J.M.W. Turner Self-Portrait Questioned: Morning Links

Good Morning! An expert claims the iconic image of JMW Turner printed on British banknotes was never his self-portrait. Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene. The Trump administration is charging ahead with the building of a contested Triumphal Arch and a White House ballroom. The Headlines AN ABOUT-TURNER. Most will immediately recognize the famous and rare self-portrait of a young J.M.W. Turner, in which he appears to lock his steady gaze with the viewer. It hangs in Tate Britain and is printed on £20 notes. But a Turner expert now claims the Romantic artist never painted it, reports the Guardian. James Hamilton, who has written books and curated exhibitions about Turner, says the painting was misattributed when it was “lumped in” with all the artworks in the Turner Bequest to UK national museums, following his 1851 death. “But it was never, even on early lists, a ‘self-portrait.’ It was always a ‘portrait of Turner.’ Gradually, over the years, it became an assumption that it was by him,” said Hamilton. Instead, the expert believes that the gifted portraitist …

Rare self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi as ‘one of history’s most courageous women’ up for auction

Rare self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi as ‘one of history’s most courageous women’ up for auction

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A rare self-portrait by Italian Old Master painter Artemisia Gentileschi, completed when she was just 20 years old, will be auctioned next month and could fetch up to $3.5m (£2.6m). One of the most notable figures in the history of art, Gentileschi’s life has been the subject of as much fascination as her work, as she rose to fame across Europe in the 17th century at a time where few women artists were formally recognised. Trained in Rome with her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi, she lived a secluded life while rapidly developing her talent and skills, working contemporaneously to Caravaggio. In the self-portrait being auctioned by Christie’s in February, she represents herself as the fourth-century martyr saint Catherine of Alexandria – a depiction she would repeat in another painting a year or two later, which currently hangs in the National …