The painting turned out to be a watercolor by the English artist J.M.W. Turner. Born in 1775, Turner is “perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist,” as London’s National Gallery writes.

Visitors to the popular Turner in January exhibition this year in Edinburgh can expect a rare treat: a group of paintings they haven’t seen before, including a painting of Edinburgh which is ...

1830- 1835), with its "factory chimneys belching smoke ... they take you right back to Turner, and his tear-jerking painting ...

When it did, no one was better equipped than Turner to exploit it as, for instance, in a painting from the 1820s of fishing boats on Folkestone Beach, a symphony in scarlet, blue and gold.