A self-portrait and a landscape painting by the artist JMW Turner have been chosen for the new £20 banknotes that will enter into circulation in 2020. Turner is the first artist to be featured on ...

Mark Carney, Governor of The Bank of England displays the new 20 pound note in front of a self portrait of JMW Turner during a photo opportunity at the Tate Britain in London, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020.

With Mike Leigh‘s “Mr. Turner,” a perfect union of film biographer and subject has landed at Cannes. In his film about J.M.W. Turner, an English Romantic painter of landscapes who caught the ...

Five of JMW Turner’s works are to be auctioned across three sales on the 250th anniversary of the painter ... and depicts a figure sketching what is thought to be a self-portrait in the foreground.

Joseph Mallord William Turner's "Self portrait, age 24," will grace the UK's £20 note. UniversalImagesGroup/Getty Images hide caption ...

The £20 banknote features a self-portrait of Turner as well as one of his most celebrated paintings, The Fighting Temeraire. The note will also go on display at The National Gallery - the home of ...

New 20 pound notes are displayed in front of a self portrait of JMW Turner during a photo opportunity at the Tate Britain in London, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap.

Five of JMW Turner's works are to be auctioned across three sales on the 250th anniversary of the painter's birth. Born in 1775, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter and printmaker during ...