JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire became a national celebrity ... A brief segment in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall captures a popular view about the painting. In the scene, Bond (Daniel ...

The Fighting ... Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, voted Britain's favourite painting in 2005 and depicted on the new £20 note, features prominently in the 2012 James Bond ...

JMW Turner, the great Victorian painter of landscapes and seascapes, had his cinematic standing boosted recently when James Bond and Q discussed one of his paintings, The Fighting Temeraire ...

When James Bond meets Q at the National Gallery in Skyfall, the picture they survey is Turner’s “The Fighting Temeraire”. “Grand old warship being ignominiously hauled away to scrap.

It is October 2012, and we’re sitting next to James Bond on a thin ... His focus is “The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to be Broken Up, 1838”, a work he may have previously ...