{"id":43160,"date":"2025-08-04T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43160\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:51:13","slug":"j-m-w-turner-paintings-back-on-display-to-commemorate-special-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43160\/","title":{"rendered":"J.M.W. Turner paintings back on display to commemorate special anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Transept-of-Ewenny-Priory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"722\"  \/>Turner\u2019s Transept of Ewenny Priory. Image Amgueddfa Cymru<\/p>\n<p>Amgueddfa Cymru is celebrating the 250th anniversary of J.M.W. Turner\u2019s birth by returning his iconic artworks to display at National Museum Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>The display ranges from some of Turner\u2019s early Welsh watercolour paintings, created when he was a young artist touring Wales during the 1790s, to his late great seascapes painted towards the end of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Turner found Wales\u2019s dramatic landscapes and ancient ruins inspirational. One example is his Transept of Ewenny Priory which he visited during his 1795 tour of south Wales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/nation-cymru-donations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NC-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrations<\/p>\n<p>Dr Melanie Polledri, Principal Curator Collections and Historic Art at Amgueddfa Cymru said: \u201cIt is wonderful that here at National Museum Cardiff we are contributing to the celebrations taking place across the UK to honour one of our most important British artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith his legacy to Wales and his clear love for the Welsh countryside, it\u2019s wonderful to display this beautiful collection together for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paintings will be on display for all visitors to see at National Museum Cardiff\u2019s historic art galleries and will be available until later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Turner\u2019s artwork was bequest to the museum by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies and is now part of the Davies sisters collection within the museum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llyfrgell.cymru\/ymweld\/pethau-iw-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4776_NLW_No-Welsh-Art-Digital-Advert_Mar-2025_Land_V2_CY-1-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                Support our Nation today<\/p>\n<p>For the price of a cup of coffee a month you can help us create an<br \/>\n                                    independent, not-for-profit, national news service for the people of Wales, by<br \/>\n                                        the people of Wales.\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turner\u2019s Transept of Ewenny Priory. Image Amgueddfa Cymru Amgueddfa Cymru is celebrating the 250th anniversary of J.M.W. Turner\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-43160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}