Export ban on Turner painting

I agree with both of your posts and especially your comment on Picasso EllanVannin - we visited his museum in Malaga and most of his works were as you describe! Some of the sketches were good though and I do like Guernica which I haven’t seen up close yet.

The irony is that this painting is of Lake Lucerne and Swiss mountains.
If this was a painting of an iconic British scene I might understand efforts to keep it here but, just because the artist was British does not mean we have a right to keep all his paintings in this country. After all, we have masterpieces by artists from other countries in our galleries here.

I can't help wondering if Turner would be astonished by this?

I too love art and have all kinds of prints dotted around the place but I wouldn't pay anything to stop a painting from leaving the country. Like yourself, I'd be waving it off too----from across the water by the lighthouse !
I can't understand the sums of money that change hands when selling some painting or other, even to moving walls on which the artist Banksy has drawn on, paying thousands.

I just feel that some people have got more money than sense especially when it's a Picasso where you might find an eye in the knee-cap type of painting. Yes, it could be better spent elsewhere that's for sure.