Mr Windus is a gentleman of highly cultivated taste, and having been an admirer of Turner’s pencil for many years, has been enabled to collect a great number of the painter’s finest productions. Willing to extend to others the gratification he himself enjoys, he opens his house to a select portion of the public every Tuesday, and it is not too much to affirm that the genius of the painter can nowhere be seen in greater perfection.
Alaric Watts

Recreating the Library

I am now engaged on a very difficult subject, the Interior of the Library of Mr Windus, who has it filled with about fifty Turners, and when you come to town we will go down and see him (he lives in Tottenham), and I can ensure you a treat. 
John Scarlett Davis

The Library at Tottenham, the seat of BG Windus, Esq. Watercolour by John Scarlett Davis now in the British Museum

BG Windus Collection recreated

JMW Turner was one of the most famous, best loved and prolific artists in Britain whose work includes water colours, oils and engravings.  And Benjamin Godfrey Windus, one of the leading art collectors and patrons of his day, was an avid collector of the paintings of JMW Turner and one of the first serious collectors of watercolours in general. 

The Library of BG Windus, showing his collection of paintings by JMW Turner, was painted by John Scarlett Davis in 1835 with such accuracy that most of the paintings have been identified and those paintings and their current locations can now be seen.