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Tate Britain’s Turner show reveals an old master – though the Spectator didn’t think so at the time

It also reveals a painter more concerned with the world around him than with formal abstraction

‘Rain, Steam and Speed — The Great Western Railway’, 1844, by J.M.W. Turner [© the national gallery, london]
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