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<\/a>Rome, From Mount Aventine by J. M. W. Turner<\/p>\nThe painting, Rome, from Mount Aventine, was painted in 1836, and is one of the few major late works by J.M.W. Turner still in private hands. It last appeared at auction in 2014, when it sold for \u00a330.3 million, setting an auction record for the artist.<\/p>\n
Sotheby\u2019s expects the forthcoming sale to surpass that figure \u2013 and could fetch as much as \u00a350 million.<\/p>\n
The view of Rome was commissioned by Turner\u2019s close friend and patron Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar. It is thought to have been started in Italy, then completed back in London.<\/p>\n
After Munro\u2019s death, Archibald Primrose, the 5th Earl of Rosebery and a future prime minister, bought the painting in 1878 as a wedding gift for Hannah de Rothschild, then the wealthiest woman in Britain. He paid \u00a36,142, by far the highest price for any painting in the estate sale.<\/p>\n
It remained with the Rosebery family until it was sold at Sotheby\u2019s in 2014.<\/p>\n
According to Sotheby\u2019s, that long continuity of ownership has helped preserve the painting\u2019s unusually fresh condition. It remains on its original canvas and in its original frame, and has never been relined or restored. Turner\u2019s fingerprints, marks left by his palette knife and even brush hairs caught in the wet paint are still visible.<\/p>\n
The painting will go on display at Sotheby\u2019s on Bond Street<\/a> from Friday 9th to Thursday 15th October 2026.<\/p>\n Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm
\nSaturday from 12pm to 5pm
\nSunday from 1pm to 5pm<\/p>\n