If it’s good enough for a master… Chelsea riverside home of revolutionary painter JMW Turner – which boasts eight bedrooms, five bathrooms and three patio gardens – goes on sale for £11M
- The Grade II home is on London’s Cheyne Walk in Chelsea by the River Thames
- The street was also home to Ian Fleming, whose mother lived in Turner’s house
- The Chelsea home retains many original features including a cloistered hallway
The former Thames-side home of revolutionary British painter JMW Turner has gone on sale for £11millon.
The Grade II-listed property historic property where the 18th century artist spent his last years is on London’s Cheyne Walk in Chelsea.
Turner, who painted The Fighting Temeraire – voted Britain’s greatest artwork in 2005 and which appeared in the Bond movie Skyfall – is said to have installed the balustrading on the property’s roof, as a place where he could paint from, and used the main bedroom as his studio.
The little Thames-side street has also been home to many other famous faces, including writer George Eliot, James Bond creator Ian Fleming, whose mother lived in Turner’s house, Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger. Even King Henry VIII once owned a property there.
The Grade II-listed property historic property where the 18th century artist spent his last years is on London’s Cheyne Walk in Chelsea.
The Chelsea home retains many original features; from the cloistered hallway which has its original 18th century herringbone parquet flooring, to a vaulted main reception room
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Turner’s work sells for millions – his most recent painting sold was The German landscape of Ehrenbreitstein, which fetched £18.5m in London in 2017.
His painting Rome, from Mount Aventine, sold for £30.3m in 2014.
His Chelsea home retains many original features; from the cloistered hallway which has its original 18th century herringbone parquet flooring, to a vaulted main reception room with an elevated, four-meter ceiling.
The property, which was originally two houses, comes with three patio gardens and two elegant balconies on the first and second floors.
All the remaining living accommodation, including two further reception rooms, two kitchens and a grand formal dining room, are connected by a tranquil courtyard in the middle of the accommodation.
Along with eight bedrooms, there are five bathrooms, several dressing rooms and a library on the mezzanine floor.
Visitors arrive on the lower patio to the front door leading to the first reception room, with another leading off it.
The kitchen is at the rear of the first dining room, leading on to the covered walkway. There is also a cloakroom, a further dining room and another kitchen on this level.
The Grade II-listed property historic property features an elegantly designed main reception room with an elevated, four-meter ceiling
The eight-bedroom property includes a vaulted main reception room, two further reception rooms, two kitchens and a grand formal dining room
All the remaining living accommodation, including two further reception rooms, two kitchens and a grand formal dining room, are connected by a tranquil courtyard in the middle of the accommodation
Along with eight bedrooms, there are five bathrooms, several dressing rooms and a library on the mezzanine floor
Visitors arrive on the lower patio to the front door leading to the first reception room, with another leading off it
The kitchen is at the rear of the first dining room, leading on to the covered walkway
The former home of painter JMW Turner includes two elegant balconies on the first and second floors, overlooking the River Thames
The Grade II Listed property, which was originally two houses, comes with three patio gardens
The little Thames-side street has also been home to many other famous faces, including writer George Eliot, James Bond creator Ian Fleming, whose mother lived in Turner’s house and Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger
The mezzanine floor is home to a bedroom, bathroom and the library, and the first floor is home to the principal bedroom, with two others, plus two bathrooms and a dressing room and balcony.
The second floor has two more bedrooms with two family-sized bathrooms and the third floor is home to two more bedrooms and a balcony.
Suzie Kirstein, an associate partner of Carter Jonas Mayfair, described the property as ‘one of a kind’.
She said: ‘It’s not often you can find a house where someone as important as Turner lived and worked.’
‘It belongs to an older couple who have enjoyed living there but are now planning to downsize.
The property is amazing, but needs some restoration, so I think it would be wonderful to find a new owner who had that in mind.’
She believes the house might suit a European or British family with grown-up or older children, who could take advantage of the house’s location and appreciate its unique history and artistic heritage.
Who was J.M.W Turner?
Self-portrait of JMW Turner, 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner, born in Covent Garden in 1775, in a lower-middle-class family to a father who had a wig-trimming and barber’s business.
The English Romantic painter is known for his vivid landscapes and often violent marine paintings.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, he opened his own gallery in 1804.
Though he did not marry, Turner fathered two daughters, Evelina and Georgiana, by his housekeeper Sarah Danby.
Tragically, he lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76.
The visionary artist left behind 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper.
Turner is buried in St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
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