Saved by the brushstroke

Last month I wrote about the public appeal to raise a lot of dosh to keep one of JMW Turner’s greatest paintings in the UK.

Today, the BBC report that the campaign has been successful.

I understand that over a third of 11,433 individual donors ‘bought’ brushstokes, and that of the £552,198 raised in total (via post, phone and web), £73,281 – or 13 percent – was donated through the buy a brushstroke initiative.

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buy a brushstroke, jmw turner, tate, the art fund, the blue rigi

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