Turner in Tottenham
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      • Calais sands
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      • Going to the ball
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      • Ansley Windus
      • Thomas Windus
    • Landowner
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      • 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
  • 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      • Marine Views (unpublished series)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
Origins of the Turner in Tottenham website
I first heard of BG Windus and his collection of works by JMW Turner, and later his PreRaphaelite Collection, during research on Luke Howard, "Namer of Clouds", who lived in Tottenham.  His collection was noted in The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham, 1840 and I came across references to two articles by Dr Selby Whittingham.  Finding a connection between Tottenham and JMW Turner, one of Britain’s greatest painters and a favourite of mine, set me off on this project.
Margaret Burr
Introduction
BG Windus, an eminent businessman who lived in Tottenham, was one of a new class of patrons with wealth and interest who succeeded the landed aristocracy in the patronage of the arts .  He started acquiring watercolours around 1820 and by 1840 had over 200 works by JMW Turner in his collection.  Passionate about the work of Turner he extended his home adding a library to accommodate his growing collection of pictures. These were framed in gold and mounted in a manner of which Turner approved.
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JMW Turner Devonport
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JMW Turner Lake Nemi
Shortly before Turner died BG Windus became an early patron of the Pre-Raphaelites.  Some of their most well known paintings found their first home in the Windus Collection in Tottenham including JE Millais' Ophelia, the most popular painting in Tate Britain; DG Rossetti's Lucrezia Borgia and William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat.
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John Everett Millais Ophelia
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lucrezia Borgia
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William Holman Hunt The Scapegoat

Other paintings in the collection:
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Thomas Girton The White House at Chelsea
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Joshua Reynolds Penelope Boothby
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Frederick Leighton Garden of an Inn, Capri
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Entry on the Collection in the
​Time Out
of 1851:

Objects of interest to the Painter and Connoisseur 
Murray’s Handbook for Modern London, or London as it is.  John Murray, 1851
Private Collections - Mr B G Windus's Turner Drawings
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