Letter: Vanished Turner

WHILE I must applaud the way in which the Titians have been saved for the nation (the price per buttock has certainly risen since the purchase of the Three Graces), I still wonder why there was no murmur when the peerless Turner Modern Rome Campo Vaccino, which had been at the centre of the superb Scottish National Gallery exhibition Turner in Italy, was sold for £30 million to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

There was no national appeal which would have led to a contribution from the Art Fund, and its very existence has been airbrushed out of lectures at the gallery. It is now an “unpicture”.

Marina Donald

Edinburgh