Pallant House Gallery is pleased to announce the major exhibition of the British artist Glyn Philpot R.A. (1884-1937) in almost 40 years (since the 1984 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery). It brings together over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures, many unseen in public for decades, charting the artist’s development from Edwardian swagger portraits to […]
In this landmark project renowned artists give 25,000+ looked-after children visibility after 280 years, commemorating the lost faces of children given into care between 1741-1954. Permanently revolutionising the Foundling Museum’s 280-year-old collection, it commissioned five major artists to create portraits of five exceptional sitters – former pupils of the Foundling Hospital – to hang alongside […]
Life Through a Royal Lens is a new exhibition exploring the Royal Family through photography and brings together some of the most iconic images ever taken of the Royal Family to Kensington Palace. For almost 200 years the medium of photography has created an unprecedented intimacy between Sovereign and subjects. The new display explores the […]
Venue: Celle Castle, Tansey Miniatures Foundation, Celle Castle (near Hanover), 9–11 September 2022 This conference will take place in conjunction with the seventh exhibition of the Tansey Miniatures Foundation and the publication of the accompanying catalogue Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey Collection. 23 speakers from 11 different countries will address a […]
SELFLESS by Jessica van der Weert documents the lives of healthcare teams in Northumbria and Brent at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Capturing this extraordinary moment in time with 30-plus portraits, the powerful exhibition is now open to view by the public in the Royal College of Physicians, Regents’s Park, London, until 1 August […]
Reframed: The Woman in the Window is the first exhibition to explore the enigmatic motif of the ‘woman in the window’. Featuring artworks from ancient civilisations to present day, the exhibition brings together over 50 works by artists including Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans and […]
This new display celebrates the return of Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘The Pink Boy’ (1782), one of Waddesdon’s most popular paintings, after being cleaned and conserved, a process that has revealed much about the painting’s creation. From Wed 25 May, a special display will reveal it anew, freed from a discoloured varnish, alongside three other Waddesdon Gainsboroughs that […]
This focused exhibition, developed in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and National Museums Liverpool, includes some of the most iconic images in British painting, including the ‘Darnley’ and ‘Armada’ portraits of Elizabeth I. Several of the works have never been shown outside London, including a portrait of Jane Seymour after Hans Holbein the Younger […]
This resource identifies all those men and women who have been identified as painters of any sort working in England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland between the years 1500 and 1640. It includes those who were native to the British Isles and also those strangers who came and worked there at any time during this era. […]
After exactly 100 years, this exhibition reunites ‘The Blue Boy’ with the British public and with the paintings that inspired it. ‘The Blue Boy’ represents the best of 18th-century British art. It is Gainsborough’s eloquent response to the legacy of Van Dyck and grand manner portraiture. It is a proud demonstration by Gainsborough of what […]
