JMW Turner:  the source  JMW Turner expert opinion versus connoisseurship,,, The 'community of Turner expertise' is a web of no mean proportions (Courtauld Institute, Clore / Tate, Yale / Mellon, NG National Gallery London University of London, Oxford, Cambridge, Turner Sudies / Society News, Agnew's Christie's Sotheby's). How does this somewhat odd mix of aficionados fit  together?
    

Martin Butlin is seen here as he sits for his portrait by (Jiri) George Kayser / 2001 (see the Butlin visit  for the finished picture)

 Art World’s Dirty Little Secret
r malcolm setters / graham setters

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