The painting turned out to be a watercolor by the English artist J.M.W. Turner. Born in 1775, Turner is “perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist,” as London’s National Gallery writes.

"We’re painting what will be the world’s largest watercolor," Holloway said. The idea came to Knowles not too long after the city took over the museum. The back of the museum was covered by a ...

The Brontë Parsonage Museum, located in the Brontë family home in Haworth, Yorkshire, recently placed the winning bid on the watercolor painting known as The North Wind (1842). Following ...