Turner's Rome view painting sells for record £29.7m

The painting was bought by the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles

An 1839 Turner masterpiece of a view of Rome has sold for £29.7m in London, breaking the artist's auction record.

Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino sold in five minutes with six bidders battling for the work which has only come up for sale once before, Sotheby's said.

Modern Rome, which had an estimate of £12m-£18m, was the top seller at the Old Master and British Paintings sale.