Tag: J M W Turner

Turner at Ewenny: a political artist?

February 13, 2017 0 Comments
Turner at Ewenny: a political artist?

Recently I’ve been looking into the strange fate of Ewenny Priory at the time of its dissolution in the 1530s and 1540s.  Sooner or later anyone interested in the history of the priory can hardly escape an encounter with the remarkable watercolour of the church’s interior that JMW Turner painted in 1797, when he was […]

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