The Civic Voice Design Awards are the people’s choice for architecture and the built environment. Unique in England, the awards are a national celebration of well-designed new build, heritage and...
Read MoreTurner’s House in Twickenham has won a brace of honours in this year’s Love London awards. For the past five weeks, people all over the city have been voting for...
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This April the garden of JMW Turner’s house, Britain’s most illustrious landscape artist, will burst into bloom at Sandycombe Lodge, showing off its new design and planting scheme, completing a...
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J.M.W. Turner’s country villa, Sandycombe Lodge, reopened its doors to the public in July 2017 following a £2.4 million year-long conservation programme, made possible by National Lottery players, that...
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Early in February a ‘Topping Out’ ceremony took place at Sandycombe Lodge, attended by Turner’s House Trust’s new patron, Professor Ken Howard (who, like Turner, is Professor of Perspective...
Read MoreNew York Times An Effort to Save J.M.W. Turner’s Country House https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/arts/design/an-effort-to-save-jmw-turners-country-house.html BBC JMW Turner's Twickenham house 'saved' by Lottery grant https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30708457 Crowdfunding bid to restore JMW Turner's...
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The beginning of a New Year marks a considerable change in the pace of work at Sandycombe. The roofs are complete, Welsh slate fitted in a traditional manner. Much...
Read MoreWalking 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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