JMV Turner's famed British seascape up for auction, says report

A seascape by renowned Brit­ish painter JMV Turner will be auctioned by Sotheby’s on Wed­nesday. The painting that can be viewed at Soth­eby’s London auction house is ex­p­ected to sell for between £4 million and £6 million ($5.5 million to $8.3 million.) Aside from a brief au­c­­tion in New York in 1945, the painting hasn’t been displayed publicly in over a century.

Sotheby’s declined to say who owns “Purfleet and the Essex Shore as seen from Long Reach”, which depicts a slew of fisherman and their boats thrashing in the waves of the Thames Estuary. It’s part of a series of