J.M.W. Turner's Identify Inwards Twickenham - Opened Upward Today!

It's the outset Sabbatum of the calendar month as well as JMW Turner's House at Twickenham is opened upwards today 2.00 to 4.30pm. Sandycombe Lodge is the province retreat which J.M.W. Turner designed for himself inward 1813.

The House is opened upwards the outset Sabbatum of the calendar month betwixt Apr as well as October.  Vistors are advised to purpose the develop equally at that topographic point is no parking for cars.

Turner’s House volition opened upwards for ‘walk-in’ visitors on 2 to a greater extent than occasions inward 2015, on Saturdays September fifth as well as Oct 3rd, from 2.00 to 4.30 p.m., entrance £4.00 for guided tours.

The edifice was added to English Heritage's Heritage at Risk Register inward 2013. Below you lot tin spotter a video past times made by Turner’s House Trust which is leading a projection to restore Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham to its original appearance.  The video shows you lot what the villa looks similar inside.

Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham
Villa of JMW Turner Esq. RA
Engraved past times WB Cooke as well as published March 1814.

Once the edifice is restored the Trust as well as thence plans to:

• open it to visitors on a regular basis 
• display the Livermore Collection of Turner material; and 
• set upwards a programme of activities as well as learning opportunities to involve people of all ages

So far the Trust has been awarded Lottery funding to acquire the projection underway as well as programme what needs to move done. In Jan this tear they received Stage 2 HLF funding of £1.4m inward Jan 2015. However the projection withal needs to enhance £290,000 to consummate funding.

Have a await within as well as withdraw heed nigh plans to conserve this beautiful building.

Sandycombe Lodge is located at twoscore Sandycoombe Road, Twickenham TW1 2LR



For to a greater extent than information: www.turnerintwickenham.org.uk - which too tells you lot how you lot tin personally get involved amongst supporting the restoration.

More nigh JMW Turner 

More weblog posts nigh JMW Turner on this blog

Turner Exhibitions

• Two watercolour exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - Review of "Watercolour: Elements of Nature" which is at the Fitzwilliam Museum inward Cambridge until 27 September.
• Turner Watercolours amongst Hockney as well as Shirley June 28, 2007 - Discover how Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) revolutionised 2 unlike kinds of image-making: watercolour as well as print.
• Exhibition review: Turner as well as the Masters at Tate Britain 20 Jan 2010 - The focus of the narrative inward the exhibition is on Turner and, despite the championship of the exhibition, I retrieve I mightiness accept missed the scream for nigh quite how meaning some of the other artists are.
• 'Constable, Gainsborough, Turner as well as the Making of Landscape' at the RA  11 February 2013 - Review of the Constable, Gainsborough, Turner as well as the Making of Landscape exhibition at theRoyal Academy of Arts.

The 'Mr Turner' Film

• "Mr Turner" - a novel celluloid nigh JMW Turner16 May 2014 - Highlights the upcoming free of a celluloid nigh JMW Turner past times Mile Leigh - amongst videos.
• Royal Academy Videos: how nosotros made Mr. Turner 22 December 2014 - 'Mr Turner' - a review of background materials created past times the RA relating to the film.

My Turner sketches

• Turner finished my sketchbook19 May 2011 - This self-portrait appears to engagement from some 1799 when Turner was nigh twenty-four years old. It was perhaps intended to grade an of import 2nd inward his career, his election equally an Associate of the Royal Academy.
•  Tonight Matthew I'm going to move JMW Turner 30 Jan 2008 - Last black I needed a interruption from writing - thence did a drawing based on 1 of Turner's industrial plant - limbering upwards for my projection on Turner afterward this year!
• Tate Britain: Drawing from Turner - One of the electrical flow exhibitions at the Tate United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland challenges the notion that copying is no agency to learn.

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