Two Turner Collectors who were Friends of Ruskin:
Elhanan Bicknell and Benjamin Godfrey Windus
Talks by Marcus Bicknell and Margaret Burr
20 November 2019
Organised by the Independent Turner Society
St Cuthbert's Church, Earls Court
More information on the presentations here
St Cuthbert's Church, Earls Court
More information on the presentations here
Ray Swain Inaugural Lecture
Bruce Castle Museum, Tottenham
28 September 2019
The collection of Benjamin Godfrey Windus of Tottenham Green
Remembering Ray Swain, who died in September 2018, and who was hopeful of discovering that Turner, Constable and Luke Howard had met on Tottenham Green and discussed the painting of clouds.
Comments from Ray:
Your letter brought a big smile to my face as I didn’t realise that JMW Turner had made a painting of a Martello Tower as it brings the Tottenham connection so much closer... he would have known about William Hobson prior to this as the Martello Towers were the talk of the town was the English were living in fear of an invasion by Napoleon and the towers were thought to be the only defence and JMWT must have thought them important to have painted them.
And referring to funeral of William Hobson: - here we are 175 years later still interested in it and people today say they are bored. I haven’t got a TV and don’t have time to be bored as you must be finding out”
Anyway I suppose that’s what makes history interesting. We all have ideas to debate and try and put them together.
Remembering Ray Swain, who died in September 2018, and who was hopeful of discovering that Turner, Constable and Luke Howard had met on Tottenham Green and discussed the painting of clouds.
Comments from Ray:
Your letter brought a big smile to my face as I didn’t realise that JMW Turner had made a painting of a Martello Tower as it brings the Tottenham connection so much closer... he would have known about William Hobson prior to this as the Martello Towers were the talk of the town was the English were living in fear of an invasion by Napoleon and the towers were thought to be the only defence and JMWT must have thought them important to have painted them.
And referring to funeral of William Hobson: - here we are 175 years later still interested in it and people today say they are bored. I haven’t got a TV and don’t have time to be bored as you must be finding out”
Anyway I suppose that’s what makes history interesting. We all have ideas to debate and try and put them together.
Margaret Burr giving the inaugural Ray Swain Lecture
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Ray Swain February 2015
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Turner and the Pre–Raphaelites in Tottenham:
the collection of Benjamin Godfrey Windus
National Gallery, London
14 January 2019
Matthew Morgan at the National Gallery invited Margaret to give the lunchtime lecture on Monday 14 January 2019.
BG Windus owned a collection of over 200 Turner watercolours which he opened to the public; they were particularly fine as they were the source of the engravings for Turner’s publications. John Ruskin acknowledged that access to these paintings enabled him to write 'Modern Painters'. Later Windus sold the Turners and became an early collector of the Pre-Raphaelites – his purchases included Ophelia (now in the Tate), The Scapegoat (Lady Lever, Liverpool) and The Last of England (Birmingham).
More on the Turner Collection here More on the Pre-Raphaelite Collection here
BG Windus owned a collection of over 200 Turner watercolours which he opened to the public; they were particularly fine as they were the source of the engravings for Turner’s publications. John Ruskin acknowledged that access to these paintings enabled him to write 'Modern Painters'. Later Windus sold the Turners and became an early collector of the Pre-Raphaelites – his purchases included Ophelia (now in the Tate), The Scapegoat (Lady Lever, Liverpool) and The Last of England (Birmingham).
More on the Turner Collection here More on the Pre-Raphaelite Collection here
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