Tate Britain
National gallery of British art holding the world's largest collection of Turner's paintings and drawings.
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This guide to Tate Britain in London traces the unusual will J.M.W. Turner left behind when he died in 1851, offering his entire studio to the nation, and the family fight it set off. You'll hear about Turner's cousins contesting his sanity in the Court of Chancery, the years the case dragged on, and the charitable cause that got sacrificed to settle it. The guide follows the dispute through to its resolution in 1856, years after the painter's death. Listen for what the settlement cost beyond the paintings themselves.
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