Lely to Turner, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

The Lely to Turner exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has returned to the UK after a major showing at the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Sweden.

Featuring some of the finest works of art of the UK's most prestigous landscape painters, the show offers visitors a chance to take in the heritage of the British countryside as it is seen by some of its most talented interpreters.

The exhibition will be shown in two parts, with the first exploring the topography of the land as it appears in the works of artists such as Paul Sandby and Thomas Girtin, Thomas Hearne and of course JMW Turner - perhaps England's most famous landscape painter.

Selected by art historian Paul Goldman and curator of fine art Tessa Sidley, the show features a fully-illustrated publication, allowing visitors to take home essays by the likes of James Leslie Wright, a local industrialist who bequeathed much of his private collection to the museum.

In 2009, the second part of the exhibition will open to the public.

Elsewhere, the Birmingham Museum of Art also has an extensive collection for those planning an art tour in coming weeks.

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