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Where are many works from the Turner Bequest held?
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J.M.W. Turner
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838, oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1839; in the National Gallery, London.
The vast majority of the works from the Turner Bequest are held at the Tate Gallery in London.
Following J.M.W. Turner's death, his collection of finished and unfinished paintings and drawings became national property. While a small number of his oil paintings remain at the National Gallery, the bulk of the collection is housed at the Tate. Specifically, the drawings and watercolors are kept in the Clore Gallery, an addition to the Tate designed by James Stirling that opened in 1987 to provide a permanent home for these works.1