Maud M Turner (Fl.1891-1908), 'Alone', Watercolour, Signed

Maud M Turner (1862 -1947), 'Alone', watercolour, signed and Exhibited at the Royal Academy. c1900. 100cms by 67 cms Image only. Currently being re framed

A British painter. She was the second youngest of a family of six. The family was very well to do and lived in the Boltons - Chelsea, London. Unfortunately there are no records regarding Maude’s education or when, how and why she took up painting, but as an adult she exhibited prolifically from 1891 to 1908 at the ‘Dudley’ and ‘New Dudley Gallery’ London (50 paintings) the ‘Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours’ (2 paintings) the ‘Society of Women Artists’ also in London. (23 paintings). Her work entitled ‘Her First Sitting’ was selected for the 1903 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. Maude worked and lived in London between 1891-1892. She moved to Wimborne, Dorset in 1893, and took up residence at Melbury Lodge, most likely with her father who is recorded living there at one time. Melbury Lodge exists today and has been described by a local historian as an “unimposing private dwelling house”. Maude Turner, who remained a spinster throughout her long life relocated to Kensington, London, in 1911, and died at Colehill Gardens, Bishop’s Park, Fulham, in 1947, aged 85

Provenance : Originally owned by Mary Anna Marten who died aged 85 in 2010.

She was born Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt on 12 September 1929 at Moor Critchel, the daughter of Napier George Henry Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington and Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper,[1] daughter of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, K.P.,G.C.V.O., sometime Lord Steward to the Household of George V & Queen Mary, by his wife Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor (d 1957), a great friend of Queen Mary, dau of Earl Grosvenor, and sister of Bendor, 2nd Duke of Westminster. She was god-daughter to Queen Elizabeth (later The Queen Mother), and in 1953 her son Napier was a page at the Coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second. Mary Anna established The Ancient Persia Fund[8] in memory of the distinguished Russian scholar Vladimir G Lukonin.[9] The aim of the fund was and is to encourage and support the study of Ancient Persia and related areas including Central Asia, in the period before the coming of Islam.

Mary Anna was appointed a Trustee of the British Museum by the Prime Minister on 5 December 1985. She was reappointed twice (5 December 1990 and 5 December 1995). She retired on the 4 December 1998. She served on the following committees of the British Museum:

Mary Anna was acting chair of the British Museum Society from 15 December 1990 to 29 February 1992 and she was also on the British Museum Development Trust [BMDT] Board of Trustees. She was also the Trustees' representative on the Council of the National Trust between 16 December 1993 and 31 December 1996. In 2002 she presented one of twelve eagle brooches worn by Queen Victoria's bridesmaids to the British Museum to mark the retirement of the Director, R. D. Anderson.Mary Anna was also a Trustee of the Charles Sturt Museum. She was created an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). Mary Anna was also a collector of Chinese works of art, many inherited.[She was a collector of jade and of rare books. In 2008 Mary Anna published (privately) her memoirs entitled 'As it Was'.[]Mary Anna died on 20 January 2010

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