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To be followed by an informal talk by Catherine Parry-Wingfield: Images of Turner – Boy, Man and ‘Afterlife’.

Amy Concannon, Manton Senior Curator of Historic British Art, will lead Society members through the rehang of the Turner Galleries and discuss the response from the public.

The Society’s summer outing will be to Petworth, where our tour will be guided by Emily Knight, the National Trust Curator.

The 44th Kurt Pantzer Memorial Lecture by Professor Malcolm Andrews. The lecture argues for affinities between Dickens’s prose evocation of Venice and Turner’s oils and watercolours of the city.

The catalogue of the Turner Bequest’s rich holdings of works on paper was launched on Tate’s website in 2013. Since then, over 30,000 entries for sketchbook pages and individual sheets have been published within a chronological framework covering all phases of Turner’s career, with some 7,500 remaining entries now in hand.

A link to this meeting will be circulated to members at a later date.

Lecture by Margaret Burr. B.G. Windus (1790–1867), a wealthy coachmaker who lived in Tottenham, north London, assembled an important collection of over 200 Turner watercolours which was memorialised in a well-known watercolour of his library by John Scarlett Davis in 1835.

At the kind invitation of our Vice-President Guy Horton-Fawkes, we will visit the home of Turner’s patron, Walter Fawkes, where the artist stayed many times over a period of 25 years. Short talks will be given on the friendship between Turner and Fawkes and on Turner’s work carried out at Farnley.

The 43rd Kurt Pantzer Memorial Lecture by Dr Greg Smith, creator of the new free-to-access website ‘Thomas Girtin (1775-1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist’.

Turner visited Kent throughout his life, from his early schooldays to his latter years in Margate. The county provided him with both subject matter and inspiration and he made depictions of its landscape, coastline, harbours, and monuments throughout his career.