Late autumn colour at Petworth House and Park that inspired JMW Turner

The landscape and light at Petworth House and Park inspired JMW Turner – Britain’s greatest landscape painter – to capture this Capability Brown parkland many times.

By The Newsroom

Published 14th Nov 2014, 10:25 BST

Petworth House and Park - sunrise through the trees, ©National Trust Images Chris Lacey SUS-141111-165333001

The estate, now in the care of the National Trust, was the home of Turner’s patron, the 3rd Earl of Egremont.

Report and picture contributed by the National Trust.

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