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Turner Wins Greatest Painting

A painting by JMW Turner has won a poll to find Britain's Grreatest Painting. Turner's painting, completed in 1839, is "The Fighting Temeraire. Constable's The Hay Wain came second in the poll, organised by BBC Radio 4's Today programme in association with the National Gallery in London. A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Edouard Manet came third, while The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck came fourth. The other paintings on the shortlist were: The Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch by Sir Henry Raeburn The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy by David Hockney For the full story - click the title Irish Art