Walking in Turner’s Footsteps

Saturday 27th April and Thursday 27th June, 11.00am

Join art historian Catherine Parry-Wingfield on a walk from Turner’s House, across parkland along the Thames towpath to the top of Richmond Hill. This is a gentle walk of just over 2 miles, beginning with a brief tour of Turner’s House and ending with a short uphill incline.

£15.00- booking advised, limited spaces.

The Reopening of Pitzhanger Manor

Pitzhanger Manor. Joseph Gandy, 1800 © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London

We are delighted that following a three-year closure that Sir John Soane’s beautiful suburban retreat is once again open to the public following £12m restoration project. Soane bought the house in 1800 and immediately set about constructing a building to house his art and antiquities collection. His friend and fellow Professor at the Royal Academy, J.M.W. Turner, was a frequent guest and both would regularly go fishing and entertain each other and their close circle of friends at their houses. Soane sold Pitzhanger in 1810 and moved his collection (including William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress series) back to his town residence in Holborn.

We suggest visiting Turner’s House and Pitzhanger Manor on the same outing as both properties complement each other in a unique way.

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