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Comment by Susan A. Bennett on December 15, 2011 at 8:46

The wreath laying ceremony for Albert yesterday made the BBC London news - we were joined for the event by the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and her consort to listen to the messages of appreciation and the wreath laying which will be more fully reported in the WSG newsletter.

Comment by Susan A. Bennett on December 11, 2011 at 18:52

JMW Turner event being held on the Independent Turner Society on Monday, 19 December 2011

160^th Anniversary of the death of J.M.W.Turner, and 150^th Anniversary of his (unmet) deadline for the building of a gallery to house his main bequest by the National Gallery.

Laying of a wreath at 5.50pm on his grave in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral by  Dr Leonard McComb RA  RWS  RP  RE, former Keeper of the Royal Academy, winner of the Turner Medal Watercolour Award at the RA in 2007.  Last year he made the designs for mosaics at Westminster Cathedral.

It will also be a chance to see Turner’s statue by Patrick McDowell RA, 1861, in the South Transept, which was restored some years ago at our instance and with the support of HRH The Prince of Wales and Sir Hugh Casson PPRA.

This is open to all admirers of Turner.  But we need to be notified at least a week in advance by any who wish to attend Choral Evensong in the Quire at 5pm.

Comment by Susan A. Bennett on November 29, 2011 at 7:40

                                 

REMEMBERING PRINCE ALBERT

Wreath Laying Ceremony 14^th December 2011 at 12.30pm at Albert Memorial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At 12.30pm on Wednesday 14^th December 2011 members of the William Shipley Group for RSA History and other Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) will gather at the foot of the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park to lay a wreath to mark the 150^th anniversary of the Prince Consort’s untimely death in 1861. 

On his election as President of the [Royal] Society of Arts in 1843 Prince Albert led the Society’s renaissance by impressing on the institution that the main object of its existence was the application of science and art to industrial purposes:  ‘to wed mechanical skill to high art.’  As a result of this suggestion the Society held exhibitions of British manufactures and decorative arts at its headquarters in John Adam Street which laid the foundation for the Great Exhibition of 1851, which Albert decreed should be an ‘international’ exhibition.    The success of that enterprise led to the development of museums and educational institutions that form the modern day ‘Albertropolis’.   

In memory of their illustrious President the [Royal] Society of Arts instituted its most prestigious award, The Albert Medal, which it continues to award for ‘Distinguished Merit in promoting Arts, Manufactures and Commerce’.  The Society also contributed £1000 from its limited funds towards the Albert Memorial, and ran a campaign to enable ordinary men and women to make their own contribution to honour Prince Albert.

After short messages of appreciation of Prince Albert are delivered a wreath will be laid jointly by Dr Nicholas Cambridge FRSA (Chairman of William Shipley Group for RSA History) and Jonathan Rollason FRSA (Trustee of the RSA).  The party will then adjourn to the Café Consort (via door 12) in the Albert Hall. 

All are welcome to join in this commemoration of an important figure in the history of Great Britain.

Comment by Susan A. Bennett on November 11, 2011 at 18:17

It was the unveiling of the Westminster plaque that bought to like the survival of the Society's original memorial tablet.  Turner won one of the Society's prizes, as far as I'm aware he never became a member of the Society. 

The RSA archive should have a record of Rob's dealings with the owner of the plaque in their records.

Comment by Deirdre Molloy on November 11, 2011 at 16:29

Thanks Susan, great to know about the moves to return this plaque for J.M.W Turner.

I looked up the Survey of London which records that "Turner was born in a house on the site now numbered 21, on the south side, where his father, William Turner, a barber, was living from 1773 to 1776... After some years' residence elsewhere William Turner had by 1790 returned to another house in Maiden Lane, No. 26, evidently on the left side of Hand Court" where he lived until 1799.

There is currently a Turner plaque at 21 Maiden Lane (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44646726@N05/4438099111/) - however it was erected by the City of Westminster and The Turner Society in 1999. It definitely doesn't look like one of the old RSA ones, although it does count as a plaque for a Fellow.

Do you know how I could possibly find out more about the original plaque - is Rob Baker still contactable?

Comment by Susan A. Bennett on November 11, 2011 at 12:05

 

THE TURNER BEQUEST

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

150^th Anniversary of the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Turner Bequest.  Presentation and discussion at the House of Lords.  By kind invitation of Lord Crathorne, Chairman of the All Party Arts & Heritage Group. 

 

Among those who have agreed to speak are

Mr Leolin Price CBE QC.  He has written an opinion on the legal position of the Turner Bequest and Turner insurance money for Turner’s family.

Mr Julian Spalding FMA.  He is a former Master of The Guild of St George, having set up the Ruskin Museum at Sheffield, and former radical Director of Glasgow Museums, when he instigated the appointment of a House of Lords Commission on the Burrell Bequest.  He is author of The Poetic Museum amongst other books.  www.julianspalding.net

 

This is open to interested people to attend.  Anyone who wishes to needs to inform us as early as possible, as numbers will be strictly limited.

 

Monday, 19 December 2011

160^th Anniversary of the death of J.M.W.Turner, and 150^th Anniversary of his (unmet) deadline for the building of a gallery to house his main bequest by the National Gallery.

 

Laying of a wreath at 5.50pm on his grave in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral by Dr Leonard McComb RA  RWS  RP  RE, former Keeper of the Royal Academy, winner of the Turner Medal Watercolour Award at the RA in 2007.  Last year he made the designs for mosaics at Westminster Cathedral.

 

It will also be a chance to see Turner’s statue by Patrick McDowell RA, 1861, in the South Transept, which was restored some years ago at our instance and with the support of HRH The Prince of Wales and Sir Hugh Casson PPRA.

 

This is open to all admirers of Turner.  But we need to be notified at least a week in advance by any who wish to attend Choral Evensong in the Quire at 5pm.

 

The Independent Turner Society

 

Turner House, 153 Cromwell Road, London SW5 OTQ, Great Britain

Tel & Fax:  020 7373 5560;  Mobile:  07918 916381

selbywhittingham@hotmail.com

www.jmwturner.org  

 

President:    Mary Archer-Shee                                                      Vice-President:   Stanley Warburton  

Chairman:   Robert Walmsley                                                               Treasurer:  Dominique Lambert

Secretary:    Selby Whittingham

 

 

 

 

 

Comment by Susan A. Bennett on November 11, 2011 at 7:39

I should have added that the former Archvisit, Rob Baker, had been negotiating for the return of the Society's plaque to J.M.W. Turner, which had been rescued from the demoliton of the Turner's house in Maiden Lane, and kept in safe keeping by a visitor to the site.   So that is another one out there but not on display.

Comment by Susan A. Bennett on November 11, 2011 at 7:35

As well as producing the Society's original terracotta memorial plaques Minton also presented the Society with a mosaic pavement for the entrance hall - one of the earliest examples of the application of mechanically produced tesserae, this process became the foundation of an extensive industry.  Minton's firm also provided the urinals and encaustic tiles for the Society's experimental 'waiting rooms' or public lavatories, and made the tea service designed by Henry Cole and awarded a prize by the Society.

Comment by Deirdre Molloy on November 11, 2011 at 0:59

I'm part of a small team of volunteers that run the Open Plaques website - http://openplaques.org/ - and two of us are Fellows. The site aims to collate and document, through public contribution, all the historical plaques globally, and the resources are available for free re-use by others. Of course the RSA orginally founded the London plaques scheme following William Ewart's advocacy and we have all of the (still existing) plaques erected by the RSA listed here:

http://openplaques.org/organisations/Royal_Society_Of_Arts

Our project began in 2009. RSA Catalyst funding last year enabled us to host an Open Day where we brainstormed and developed ideas with a group of interested supporters to improve the site and make 'self-service' public contributions possible. This July we re-launched and added the facility for members of the public to add new plaque listings directly to the website.

We now have 5,270 plaques listed globally, with a growing number outside the UK. Try the site's search box, or browse the 'people' or 'places' pages, to see if plaques you know of are included.

I'd be delighted to get your feedback on it or answer any questions about it. It's not finished yet as we continually improve the service, so we're keen to get people's thoughts.

Another idea I thought might be of interest to this group was to try and gather a list of past Fellows to whom there are plaques. We could start a separate discussion for that perhaps, to which people could add names of fellows with plaques, and the location of the paque if it's not yet listed on our site yet (as all the posts here are wall posts I didn't want to jump the gun on this without seeing if there was any interest first)..?

Comment by Julian Thompson on November 8, 2011 at 13:57

Thanks Susan. I just gave him a call and left him a voicemail. Will keep you posted.

 

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