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 …

