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Sir Joshua Reynolds and his house on Richmond Hill: <\/em><\/strong>a talk by Catherine Parry-Wingfield,<\/strong> Chairman of Turner’s House Trust
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Wick House, at the top of Richmond Hill, overlooks the famous view of the river; it was built for Sir Joshua Reynolds by Sir William Chambers in 1772. Catherine Parry-Wingfield, author of J. M. W.<\/i> Turner, RA: the Artist and his House at Twickenham<\/i> (published by Turner’s House Trust in 2012) gave a talk about Reynolds’s house on the opposite bank, but, as promised, she had ways “of working Turner into it . . .”<\/p>\n

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1905 photo of girls outside the National Orphan Home on Ham Common, now South Lodge<\/p><\/div>\n

Monday 10 February 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ham and Petersham: a visual history<\/em><\/strong>: a talk by Sir David Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout his unbroken 40-year service as a local councillor for Ham and Petersham, many of them as Leader of the Council, Sir David Williams has amassed a wonderful collection of old prints, photographs and maps of the two villages that he knows so well. His talk was based largely \u2013 but not exclusively \u2013 on his collection and his interpretation was typically idiosyncratic.<\/p>\n

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Twickenham Bridge under construction in 1932<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Monday 10 March 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Margarets and the Impact of the Building of Twickenham Bridge and the Great Chertsey Road<\/strong><\/em>: <\/em><\/strong>a lecture by Paul Velluet, <\/strong>architect and former Chairman of the Richmond Society<\/p>\n

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Richmond Park c.1914 by Spencer Gore. Oil paint on canvas<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Monday 14 April 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The artist Spencer Gore (1878-1914) and his work in Richmond: <\/em><\/strong>a lecture by Nicholas Reed<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 is the centenary of the death of Spencer Gore,<\/strong> a friend and associate of Walter Sickert.<\/p>\n

Gore, the first president of the English Post-Impressionist<\/a> Camden Town Group<\/a>, lived from 1913 at Cambrian Road, Richmond, just outside Richmond Park. The paintings he produced in Richmond include many painted outside in the park in all weathers. He died of pneumonia the following year, aged only 35.<\/p>\n

Art historian and publisher, Nicholas Reed<\/strong>, who is a lecturer for the National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS), and the author of Pissarro in West London: Kew, Chiswick and Richmond<\/em> and Richmond <\/em>and Kew Green: a Souvenir Guide<\/em>,talked about Gore\u2019s life and work, with particular reference to Richmond.
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Nicholas Reed says: “Spencer Gore was one of a group of British Impressionists, the best-known of whom is Walter Sickert. For a time, Gore lived in Richmond and, as we shall see, when we compare the wide variety of landscapes, portraits, music hall and parkland scenes by the two, the brilliance of Gore\u2019s colours certainly overshadows the more sombre colouring of Sickert. One hundred years ago, the Royal Academy excluded Impressionists: they were far too bright for their taste. But taste has moved on since the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> century, which is why Gore needs to be reassessed.<\/p>\n

“Sickert is known for rather dark and sometimes depressing paintings. When he painted nudes, and might have called them Nude 1 or Nude 2 as his contemporaries did. Instead, after a rather grisly local murder, Sickert called his one of his nudes, The Camden Town Murder. This headline in the local press drew a great crowd to see Sickert\u2019s painting. But that does not necessarily make him a better artist than Gore: just better at PR.<\/p>\n

“In 1914, Spencer Gore was living in Richmond, but he spent hours painting outside in Richmond Park in winter. He contracted pneumonia, and died aged just 35. His son Freddie, http:\/\/premier-pharmacy.com\/product-category\/arthritis\/<\/a> born almost the same year as his father\u2019s death, lived until his nineties, and exhibited in the Royal Academy for decades. Had Spencer Gore survived to his son\u2019s age, we could have had another 60 years of his paintings. Let us just be grateful for the few we have, and wish that the Tate showed them more often.”<\/p>\n

Monday 19 May 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our AGM and three short talks on current research<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n