J.M.W. Turner, Bamborough Castle, watercolour, estimate: £1.5–2.5 million. © Sotheby's Images

LONDON, ENGLAND Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851) is Britain’s greatest watercolourist and the last few years have seen him take centre stage like never before. In July of this year Sotheby’s offered for sale the Ullens Collection, the finest collection of privately-owned Turner watercolours to have come to the market in living memory, which saw the artist’s Lungernzee realise £3.6 million. Hot on the heels of this, a major exhibition entitled J.M.W.Turner has just opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. This actually follows record new prices in 2006 when one of Turner’s Venice masterpieces sold for $35.8 million in New York while his The Blue Rigi fetched £5.8 million in London. Now Sotheby’s London is delighted to announce that it will continue the Turner focus, offering the artist’s lost masterpiece, Bamborough Castle, on Wednesday, December 5, 2007.

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