JMW Turner and BG Windus:
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LAST FEW WEEKS!
This year’s exhibition at Turner's House in Twickenham reveals how Turner captured environmental and social developments that would go on to change Britain and the world‘s climates forever. This will be the first exhibition dedicated to this subject. Highly attuned to changes in the landscape and atmosphere, Turner captured them in his ground-breaking paintings, drawings and engravings. Through his art, he documented plumes of smoke, burning furnaces, urban sprawl, deforested landscapes, overfishing and extreme weather. The exhibition will also seek to connect the changes that Turner was observing and capturing in beautiful works of art, with changes to the environment that we are currently seeing.
A series of online lectures that are closely linked to the exhibition. All of the lectures will be recorded and the recording sent to ticket holders. BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE – LINK Find out about Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds, identifier of the Urban Heat Island effect and neighbour of BG Windus on Tottenham Green here
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. Find out more about Tottenham, those who lived there and those who visited this home of Dissenters
Neighbours included the philanthropist and author, Priscilla Wakefield; Luke Howard, the 'Namer of Clouds' and the builder of the Martello towers, William Hobson.
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