Visitors to the Salisbury Museum this summer will be treated to a highly original and fascinating exhibition on JMW Turner. Newly discovered facts and a wealth of material never previously assembled together revises the traditional outline of Turner’s formative years. ‘Turner’s Wessex: Architecture and Ambition’ reveals new insights into Turner’s ambitious and innovative work as a very young man and his complex relationships with extremely wealthy patrons. “We are astonished to discover that Turner began his career here in Salisbury, painting the town, its magnificent cathedral and the extraordinary Fonthill Abbey nearby,” said Adrian Green, Director of the Salisbury Museum. Building on recent successes with Constable and Cecil Beaton exhibitions, the Salisbury Museum showcases J.M.W. Turner’s meteoric rise at the turn of the nineteenth century, working for two

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