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Henry Vaughan was a distinguished and generous Victorian collector of art, who had inherited a fortune from his father, a wealthy hat maker. Vaughan met JMW Turner in the 1840s and built a collection of the artist’s drawings and watercolours which spanned his entire career. Inspired by John Ruskin to bequeath artworks to public collections, Vaughan gave pieces to a number of museums and galleries across Britain, including the National Galleries of Scotland. Aware of the importance of conserving watercolours, which easily fade if over-exposed to light, he stipulated that the watercolours be ‘exhibited to the public all at one time free of charge during the month of January’. At all other times they were to be kept in a special cabinet in the Print Room.

In this video, Charlotte Topsfield, Senior Curator of British Drawings and Prints at the Scottish National Gallery, discusses the work of JMW Turner and his connections to Scotland.

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