Turner in Tottenham
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      • All Hallows >
        • William Bedwell
      • Holy Trinity
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      • Tottenham High Cross
      • Rodmell, East Sussex
    • People >
      • EH Baily RA
      • John Constable
      • Rowland Hill
      • William Hobson >
        • Defence of the Realm
      • Luke Howard
      • Priscilla Wakefield
  • Home
    • Background
    • John Ruskin & Windus Collection >
      • Two Turner Collectors; Friends of Ruskin
    • Visitors to the Collection
    • Windus Auctions >
      • Christie's June 1842
      • Christie's June 1853
      • Christie's March 1859
      • Christie's July 1862
      • 1868 Sale after Windus death
    • Images and credits
    • Thanks
  • JMW Turner
    • The Windus Turner Collection >
      • Picturesque views >
        • England and Wales >
          • Charles Heath
          • Carisbrooke Castle
          • Richmond from the moors
          • Straits of Dover
        • Southern Coast >
          • Brighthelmston, Sussex
      • The Epicurean
      • Finden's Lord Byron
      • The Keepsake
      • Walter Scott >
        • Abbotsford
      • Later large watercolours
      • Marine Views (unpublished series)
    • Turner collection recreated >
      • Frames
      • Still framed?
      • The Windus Commissions
    • Turner oil paintings in the Collection >
      • Calais sands
      • The Tondos
      • Going to the ball
      • Later paintings
    • Letters to Windus
    • Turner Bequests: Henry Vaughan
    • Twickenham home
    • The Eccentric Mr Turner
    • Talks on Turner in Tottenham
  • PRB
    • Ford Madox Brown
    • Holman Hunt
    • Millais
    • Rossetti
    • Ruskin and the PRB
  • & Others
    • Blake
    • Frederick Leighton
    • Thomas Girtin
  • BG Windus
    • The Library
    • Family & inheritance >
      • Ansley Windus
      • Thomas Windus
    • Landowner
    • Places >
      • All Hallows >
        • William Bedwell
      • Holy Trinity
      • Old Well, Tottenham Green
      • Tottenham High Cross
      • Rodmell, East Sussex
    • People >
      • EH Baily RA
      • John Constable
      • Rowland Hill
      • William Hobson >
        • Defence of the Realm
      • Luke Howard
      • Priscilla Wakefield

JMW Turner and BG Windus:
Painter and Patron

During the lifetime of JMW Turner, the Windus collection in Tottenham was one of the largest and most distinguished of its kind and recognised as the best place in London to see Turner's work .
It is at Mr. Windus’s on Tottenham-green that Turner is on his throne. There he may be studied, understood, and admired – not in half-a-dozen or twenty instances, but in scores upon scores of choice examples.
The Gentleman’s Magazine, February 1852
According to Ruskin, BG Windus’s home was
‘… a cheerful little villa, with low rooms on the ground floor opening pleasantly into each other, like a sort of grouped conservatory, between his front and back gardens: their walls beset, but not crowded, with Turner drawings of the England series; while in his portfolio-stands, coming there straight from the publishers of the books they illustrated, were the entire series of the illustrations to Scott, to Byron, to the South Coast, and to Finden’s Bible’.
John Ruskin, Praeterita
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A Storm (Shipwreck) British Museum
BG Windus commissioned John Scarlett Davis to paint the
Turner watercolours in his library. The artist was so accurate that
20 of the 31 pictures in the painting have been identified.

To see the paintings in the library click here

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Some links to help you find out more about
BG Windus, his inheritance and neighbours.

The source of wealth which enabled BG Windus
to collect the works of one of the
foremost painters in England, JMW Turner.
Inheritance

Find out more about Tottenham, those who lived there and those who visited this home of Dissenters
Tottenham
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Neighbours included the philanthropist and author, Priscilla Wakefield; Luke Howard, the 'Namer of Clouds' and the builder of the Martello towers, William Hobson.
Neighbours

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There are also links between John Constable,
the romantic painter and Turner's rival, and Tottenham.

John Constable
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Emma, Laura and Susanna Hobson of Tottenham by John Constable
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