Most expensive painting by Turner sold at auction

A painting by acclaimed landscape artist Joseph Turner, titled "Rome, from Mount Aventine", set an auction record for the painter, selling for £30.3 million ($47.4 million) at Sotheby's in London, UK, on 3 December 2014. The 92 cm x 125 cm (36 in x 50 in) canvas was based on Turner's own drawings of the city he made in 1828. It was commissioned by the artist's friend and patron, Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro.

Before this sale it had only changed hands once, in 1878, when the Fifth Earl of Rosebery bought it from Munro's collection on his death.