This is the bridge which Turner painted in his famous 'Rain, Steam and Speed' in the National Gallery.

"Jongkind, Corot and Turner would have painted today this same vaporous luminosity."

Turner, Thomas Girtin and John Cotman all painted memorable pictures of Northumberland.

Turner painted Dunstanburgh many times, usually rising at dawn to do so.

Turner painted his great paintings out of his head.

Turner painted them.

As you know, this one was part of a series of twenty watercolors Turner painted for the History of Richmondshire.

"When Turner painted his masterpieces, he double-stretched the canvases, so there was an extra canvas behind the painted one," she says.

For about 60 years Turner painted the North West and surrounding areas, often from memories and images obtained while indulging his passion for cycling long distances.

In the 1820s Constable and Turner were painting some of their most innovative pictures.