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What's the big deal about Turner? Take our picture quiz and find out

JMW Turner is most famous for the wild, expressive paintings of his final years. Can you see what's special about them? As The EY Exhibition: Late Turner - Painting Set Free opens at Tate Britain, let's see if you can match up the Turner to the painting made in the same year by one of his fellow artists. You might be surprised.

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Turner depicts the burning of the Houses of Parliament in red watercolour washes. Which other watercolour was done that year? *

5. Burning of the Houses of Parliament

  • John Nash, The Blenheim
  • John Frederick Lewis, An Interior
  • Maggi Hambling, Sunrise © Maggi Hambling. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Art Library

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