Culture Minister Places Temporary Export Ban on Pope’s Villa at Twickerham By JMW Turner [Art Daily] [Art Knowledge]
While the UK tries to summon its financial muscle to come with the substantial amount of funds to save Titian’s “Diana and Acteon,” other paintings are being put on temporary layaway. A sales export license for a landscape view by J.M.W Turner “The Pope’s Villa at Twickenham,” has been temporarily denied a sales export license until June 9th by the UK Culture Ministry. The painting is considered a national treasure, particularly for its romantic connotations in both painting and poetry. Turner, like many artists of his time, came to be inspired by the site, and produced this work after its owner had the grounds destroyed. When the painting was donated to John Britton’s Fine Arts of the English School in 1811, Turner even requested that an inscription might be added to the painting, regarding ” as to the state of the grotto that grateful posterity from age to age may repair what remains.”
The UK Culture Ministry is hoping that such posterity will translate into donations or UK buyers-any serious offers for the price of £5,417,250 GBP are being encouraged to contact their offices.
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