Richard Ormond CBE who is Art Historical Advisor to the Festival was formerly Director of the National Maritime Museum and Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery. He is the grandson of Violet Sargent Ormond, the sister of John Singer Sargent. She was the subject of many of Sargent's paintings and Richard Ormond has written several books about Sargent and other painters. [...]
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is now on display at one of Tate Britain’s latest exhibitions – Painting with Light - Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the modern age from 11th to 25th September 2016: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/painting-light DON'T MISS Tate Paintings' Conservator Rebecca Hellen's lecture on the materials and techniques of John Singer Sargent, Tuesday 14th June at 4 pm in the [...]
Rebecca Hellen has been researching the materials and techniques in oil of John Singer Sargent. ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ will be of particular interest in this talk. Tickets: Rebecca Hellen Carnation Lily Lily Rose is now on display at one of Tate Britain’s latest exhibitions – Painting with Light. 11 May – 25 September 2016 http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/painting-light [...]
'Parliamentary Middlers: Why We Haven't a Prayer' Journalist and theatre critic Quentin Letts will give us an irreverent, gossipy, bracing blast against the dullards and drongos who infest our Houses of Parliament by a man who watches them daily from the press gallery: sketchwriter and theatre critic Quentin Letts, whose new parliamentary novel is a [...]
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