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William Turner of Oxford (1789–1862), 'Study from Nature on Shotover Hill'. Watercolour with gum arabic and bodycolour over graphite, about 1810s–20s.
Exhibition
Robert Healy to John Minton. The Nina Drucker bequest
6 May 2025 – 21 Sep 2025
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 20:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 20:30
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:30
Address
- Great Russell Street
- London
- WC1B 3DG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Holborn (500m), Tottenham Court Road (300m), Russell Square (800m), Goodge Street (800m)
This display celebrates the bequest of Nina Drucker (1934–2022), a collector of 18th to 20th-century art and long-term supporter of the British Museum.
About
Having studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music's Junior Academy and regularly attended concerts throughout her life, Drucker was a keen musician – and was also passionate about the visual arts. The bequest comprises 30 prints and drawings, selected from well over a hundred that were densely hung on every available surface of her north London flat. It includes works by artists not previously represented in the Museum collection.
The selection presented here shows some of the highlights from the bequest alongside works from the collection, which she knew well from attending exhibitions, visits to the Prints and Drawings Study Room, and through Collection online. A rare drawing by Irish portraitist Robert Healy (1743–71) is the first work by this artist to enter the British Museum. Landscape watercolours by David Cox (1783–1859) and William Turner of Oxford (1789–1862) complement existing holdings by these artists. Some of Drucker's favourite works, prints by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889–1946) and a group of drawings by John Minton (1917–1957), strengthens the Museum's holdings of British modern art.
