Between the Sheets: Turner’s Nudes – a ‘perfect peep-show of a show’

Exhibition offers ‘tantalising glimpses’ into the personal life of one of our greatest painters

Nude Swiss Girl and a Companion on a Bed (1802)
Nude Swiss Girl and a Companion on a Bed (1802)
(Image credit: Turner’s House)

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) is best remembered as “a genius landscape painter”, said Mark Brown in The Guardian. We revere him for his “turbulent” maritime scenes, his dramatic skies and his radical visions of the English countryside coming into contact with industrialisation.

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