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AN ABOUT-TURNER<\/strong>. Most will immediately recognize the famous and rare self-portrait of a young\u00a0J.M.W. Turner,<\/strong>\u00a0in which he appears to lock his steady gaze with the viewer. It hangs in\u00a0Tate Britain<\/strong>\u00a0and is printed on \u00a320 notes. But a Turner expert now claims the Romantic artist never painted it, reports the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>.\u00a0James Hamilton<\/strong>, who has written books and curated exhibitions about Turner, says the painting was misattributed when it was \u201clumped in\u201d with all the artworks in the Turner Bequest to UK national museums, following his 1851 death. \u201cBut it was never, even on early lists, a \u2018self-portrait.\u2019 It was always a \u2018portrait of Turner.\u2019 Gradually, over the years, it became an assumption that it was by him,\u201d said Hamilton. Instead, the expert believes\u00a0that the gifted portraitist and Turner contemporary\u00a0John Opie<\/strong>\u00a0painted the 24-year-old artist in circa 1799. Not everyone agrees. Some believe there\u2019s a good case that the artwork is not a self-portrait, but are less convinced Opie made it. Others maintain it bears the hallmarks of Turner\u2019s own masterful hand. There\u2019s another complicating factor: if the attributed self-portrait is in fact a portrait by someone else, the Tate may lose its legal claim on the artwork.<\/p>\n HOPE IN HUNGARY<\/strong>. Hungary\u2019s new Minister of Culture,\u00a0Zolt\u00e1n Tarr<\/strong>, says he aims to restore freedom of expression and promote the Hungarian art scene, according to\u00a0Artribune<\/em>. Tarr was appointed to join the government of the newly elected\u00a0Prime Minister Peter Magyar<\/strong>, who has promised pro-European, democratic changes to the country following the historic defeat of\u00a0Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>. \u201cThe outgoing government\u2019s greatest sin was to knowingly kill dialogue. They deliberately wanted to create a vulnerable, unthinking society, and the country has become a desperate and unhappy place,\u201d Tarr said, in reference to Orb\u00e1n\u2019s political grip on cultural institutions and its silencing of dissent. \u201cWe will free culture from the prison of politics so that it can once again be a vital force for our nation and the main driver of Hungary\u2019s renewal,\u201d Tarr added. \u201cWe will dismantle the web of favoritism and make cultural funding transparent and balanced, so that talent and quality, not political affiliation, determine results.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe\u00a0Trump<\/strong>\u00a0administration appeared to bypass a public bidding process by planning to begin work on a controversial\u00a0Triumphal Arch<\/strong>\u00a0using an existing, unrelated contract for services at the White House, over a mile away. Meanwhile, the building of a legally threatened White House ballroom has\u00a0progressed aboveground. [The Washington Post<\/strong>]\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tYesterday, a former\u00a0Louvre<\/strong>\u00a0employee was charged with crimes in connection with a ticket fraud scandal that cost the museum over 10 million euros, and has already led to charges against nine other people. [AFP and Le Monde<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA lost, miniature painting of the Saxon patriarch\u00a0Friedrich III<\/strong>, by\u00a0Lucas Cranach the Elder<\/strong>, not seen since World War II, has been returned to the\u00a0State Art Collections of Dresden<\/strong>, Germany. [Artnet News<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tTake a photographic tour of portraits of artists and creative misfits, such as\u00a0Patti Smith<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Mapplethorpe,\u00a0<\/strong>posing in their\u00a0Chelsea Hotel<\/strong>\u00a0apartments for photographer\u00a0Albert Scopin<\/strong>\u00a0between 1969 and 1971, and published in a book released in April by\u00a0Kerber Verlag<\/strong>. [New York Magazine, Curbed<\/strong>]\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWith summer approaching fast, here\u2019s a list of five art novels that you can start reading, even before hitting the beach. [Art in America<\/strong>]<\/p>\n MUST GO-YA<\/strong>. Spain is preparing for a vast bicentenary commemorating\u00a0Francisco de Goya<\/strong>, and one must-see stop among the festivities is the newly restored\u00a0San Antonio de la Florida<\/strong>\u00a0neoclassical church in Madrid, where the artist is buried. There, surrounding his tomb, visitors will find walls covered in some of Goya\u2019s finest frescoes, restored to their vivid, original pigment tones, along with the church interior and building structure itself, reports the\u00a0Times of London<\/em>. \u201cPeople are going to see the real colors at last,\u201d said lead architect for the restoration,\u00a0Andrea San Valentin<\/strong>. The Goya frescoes depicting the miracle of Saint Anthony of Padua, painted in 1789, are a prime example of the artist\u2019s revolutionary style. In these works, \u201che paints in such a loose and brilliant way that in some sense he is searching for impression,\u201d said\u00a0Angel Balao<\/strong>, a historian and restoration specialist working on the project. \u201cFrom below, everything looks perfect, but close up, it is completely free.\u201d However, the mausoleum remains incomplete: it is missing Goya\u2019s skull, which vanished before his remains were repatriated to Madrid. That mystery endures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/author-of-j-m-w-turner-self-portrait-questioned-morning-links-1234785450\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275844897.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! An expert claims the iconic image of\u00a0JMW Turner\u00a0printed on British banknotes was never his self-portrait. Hungary\u2019s new minister of culture,\u00a0Zolt\u00e1n Tarr,\u00a0shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene. The\u00a0Trump\u00a0administration is charging ahead with the building of a contested\u00a0Triumphal Arch\u00a0and a\u00a0White House\u00a0ballroom. 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