JMW Turner and sex: exhibition offers insight into private life of artist

Rarely seen erotic drawings offer glimpse into the painter's private life and relationship with women

JMW Turner is revered as a genius landscape painter, the king of the turbulent maritime scene, but much less is known about the more private side of the artist. Specifically: Turner and sex.

The curators of a new exhibition, Between the Sheets, Turner's Nudes, hope to change that by displaying rarely seen erotic watercolour drawings that he made over the course of his career.