Is This a JMW Turner Self-Portrait? One Scholar Has Doubts
A famous Turner self-portrait may actually be by John Opie, based on stylistic match, overlapping timelines, and a plausible will-related attribution loss.
Most famous image of JMW Turner not a self-portrait, says expert
A portrait long attributed to JMW Turner in the Tate collection is likely by John Opie, based on stylistic evidence and misattribution after the Turner bequest.