Famous painter JMW Turner's work, "Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino," is considered part of the British identity. So when budget cuts in the U.K. threatened to send Turner's masterpiece to highest bidder — the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles — the Brits began an effort to try and raise $50 Million to keep the "national treasure" in its native land.
We're joined by Lord Richard Inglewood of Hutton-in-the-Forest, who chairs the committee reviewing the export of works of art from the U.K..
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