Past Events

From the Nore: Turner at the Mouth of the Thames

Lecture – Richard Johns

  • 26 June 2013
  • 5:45 – 7:45 pm
  • Seminar Room, Paul Mellon Centre

Richard Johns of the National Maritime Museum will be giving a paper entitled:'From the Nore: Turner at the Mouth of the Thames'

Rough sea scene

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Shipping at the Mouth of the Thames, ca.1806–7

Digital image courtesy of Tate, N02702

All are welcome. However, places are limited, so if you would like to come please contact our Events Co-ordinator, Ella Fleming at [email protected]

About the speaker

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    Richard Johns is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of York where his research and teaching encompasses various aspects of British art. Landscape-related publications include Framing Robert Aggas: The Painter-Stainers’ Company and the English School of Painters (2008), Turner and the Sea with Christine Riding (2013) and From the Nore: Turner at the Mouth of the Thames (2016). In 2019 he co-curated the exhibition Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud with Suzanne Fagence Cooper.