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The gallery was even much less well equipped for its next major bequest, as J. M. W. Turner was to bequeath the complete contents of his studio, excepting unfinished works, to the nation upon his dying in 1851. The first 20 of those had been displayed off-site in Marlborough House in 1856. Ralph Nicholson Wornum, the gallery’s Keeper and Secretary, labored with John Ruskin to convey the bequest together. One of probably the most persistent criticisms of the National Gallery, aside from of the perceived inadequacies of the building, has been of its conservation coverage.
The lions will remain at…
