Turner's Covent Garden birthplace and Marylebone house and studio are gone now, but the house in which he infamously shacked up with owner Mrs. Booth (incognito; calling himself "Admiral Booth") during the last several years of his life, and died in 1851, still stands on Cheyne Walk, in Chelsea, a decent walk from our flat in Pimlico. I had to make the pilgrimage. (A cottage he designed, with Soane's assistance, in Twickenham, further up the river, was beyond my range; next time).
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| Famous neighbors along the way |
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| Two-fer |
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| Subject of Vaughn-Williams' Sinfonia Antarctica, a favorite |
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| No blue disc but this bronze plaque |
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| 118-119 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, facing the river |
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| And on the river these days, looking upstream, a colony of house boats... |
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