Newly attributed Turner painting, last sold for £500, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's with £300,000 estimate

The £600 artwork that turned out to be Turner's first oil painting is set to sell for 500 times what it made at auction just one year ago

JMW Turner's 'The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol' was lost and forgotten for years—but now it's been rediscovered, and is going under the hammer in July.

Newly attributed Turner painting, last sold for £500, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's with £300,000 estimate

The work was previously attributed to a follower of the 18th-century artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson, but experts agree it was infact painted by a teenaged Turner