A JMW Turner painting of what is allegedly Margate's seaside is expected to fetch up to £800,000.
In Sunrise Over The Sea, the colors yellow, orange, and blue are used to depict the shifting light over the shoreline.
Before he passed away in 1851 at the age of 76, the British artist is thought to have completed the watercolour painting in his later years of work.
It is expected to fetch between £600,000 and £800,000 when it is auctioned off at Christie's in London on July 4.
In Sunrise Over The Sea, the colors yellow, orange, and blue are used to depict the shifting light over the shoreline.
Turner's first association with Margate, Kent, dates to the 1780s, when he was still a young man.
However, the artist didn't return to the seaside town until the early 1830s, when he did so while looking for scenes to use in his paintings. After that, he started going there frequently.
The boarding house where he stayed during his visits is now the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate.
Turner's Margate roommate, Sophia Caroline Booth, previously owned the Sunrise Over the Sea painting.
Later, the piece was purchased by Walter Brandt, an art collector.
This astonishingly well-preserved and ravishingly lovely drawing is an exceptional example of the boldly expressive watercolours Turner created in his later years, according to Christie's Harriet Drummond.
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