John Doman Turner (25 October 1871 – 3 January 1938) was a

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and member of the

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.Baron, Wendy (2004)
"Camden Town Group: John Doman Turner"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press (subscription required). Accessed on 13 June 2009. Born in

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in London, Turner received artistic training by correspondence from

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while working as a stockbroker's clerk. This correspondence still exists, and has been used by subsequent artists, for example

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in her novel ''The Sea House''. Turner exhibited twelve works with the

in three exhibitions between 1911 and 1912 (see 'Works' below).

During his later life Turner went on to paint four unique scrolls including the ''Walberswick Scroll'', a 123-foot '''Dioramic Pictorial Record of a Suffolk Village which detailed every dwelling of the

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village of

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. This was followed by the ''Trinity Fair Scroll'', a portrait of a travelling circus, which can be seen at the Swan Hotel,

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. The Walberswick Scroll has made several appearances on TV, the first on ITV News in May 2017, the second on More 4's 'Penelope Keith's Coastal Villages' in January 2018. He died from pneumonia at his

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home on 3 January 1938. Trinity Fair Scroll

A major exhibition of his work was displayed in the

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, and at th
Michael Parkin Gallery
in 1997. During the early 1990s Southampton Art Gallery acquired an example of the work of John Doman Turner titled ''The Joy Wheel Mitcham''. Every year the fun fair arrived on Mitcham Common and just a few years before the outbreak of the 1914–18 war JDT went and painted the watercolour. John Doman Turner - Mitcham Common

He also painted other works of Mitcham around the same time which come from the same collection.

Works

John Doman Turner's works include the following, as featured at the Camden Town Group exhibitions: * ''Duncan and Godfrey in ‘The Coster’s Courtship’'' * ''Elizabeth II at Brighton'' * ''In the Grand Circle'' * ''Brighton Shelters'' * Walberswick * ''HMS - Sheerness'' * ''St. Valery-S-Somme'' * ''The Sound of Kerrera and Kerrera Island, Oban'' * ''Eastbourne'' * ''Canal Boats'' * ''The Fair Green, Mitcham'' * ''Mitcham Common'' In the 1930s John Doman Turner painted four huge scrolls in watercolour: * ''Ferry Road Scroll'' * ''Walberswick Scroll'' * ''Trinity Fair Scroll'' * ''Fairground Frieze''

References

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