Turner in Tottenham
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    • 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      • Marine Views (unpublished series)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
Talks on Turner in Tottenham 2019

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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

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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.
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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
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