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As the 250^th anniversary celebrations of JMW Turner come to an end, join Dean Hines on a tour through the Lakes inspired by the Turner watercolours in the Wordsworth Trust’s fine art collection. These works, composed at opposite ends of Turner’s career and creative powers, have their own intriguing backstories.

Turner was a pioneer in British landscape art. A famed English Romantic painter, he visited the Lake District in 1797. In this talk we unravel the long and complicated history behind Ullswater, Cumberland as displayed in our new exhibition What We Treasure. What are the influences behind the early landscape Blencathra and did Turner return to the Lakes in 1815? Recent research sheds some light on a 211-year-old mystery…

Tickets: £7

About the speaker

Dean Hines studied Art History & English Literature at Goldsmiths College and graduated with a Masters in Museum & Heritage Studies at the University of Portsmouth. In a long career at the Wordsworth Trust he has presented regular talks on Romanticism and Art, including recently The Vale of Elysium: Turner in Keswick, 1797 at Keswick Museum and Canvas & Cannon - Turner in the Age of Napoleon at the Museum of Military Life, Carlisle.

About What We Treasure: Art out of the Archive

This interactive exhibition celebrates the treasures of the Wordsworth Grasmere trove. Discover grand landscapes by Constable and Turner, a hasty sketch by Dorothy Wordsworth, dramatic watercolours and rarely displayed objects that spark wonder, curiosity and affection. We invite you to think like a curator: what makes something a treasure? Explore how art becomes meaningful and share what speaks to you most and why.

What We Treasure is currently open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm and entry is included with admission.

Location

Jerwood Centre
Wordsworth Grasmere, Grasmere, Lake District LA22 9SH

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