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Painting the competitive streak

Painter JMW Turner may be one of the most highly praised British artists, but he was also one of the most competitive.

A new exhibition at Tate Britain explores his obsession with bettering his contemporaries, recreating the Royal Academy exhibition of 1832 in which Turner went head-to-head with his bitter rival John Constable.

Exhibition co-curator Philippa Simpson explains what happened when Constable's The Opening of Waterloo Bridge and Turner's Helvoetsluys were hung side by side.

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