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January 12 |
From Riches to Rags: the Huguenots of Spitalfields - Sue Jackson
Bringing with them the luxury skill of weaving silk, the fortunes of the Huguenots fluctuated wildly. Their houses still stand and their silk can be seen in museums today. (See Outing April 17)
Fournier Street was named after
George Fournier, a man of Huguenot extraction. |
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February 9 |
Mrs Eleanor's Secret Coade Stone - Lt Col Dick Bolton
Mrs Eleanor Coade ran the country's most successful manufactory of artificial stone, working with the major architects of the period. The Red Lion, aka the South Bank lion, on Westminster Bridge. Modelled by William F. Woodington |
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March 29 (followed by Annual Lunch) |
Gustav Klimt - Eric Shanes
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), an Austrian Symbolist painter and a prominent member of the Vienna Secession movement. His sensual and sometimes erotic works include paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I |
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April 12 |
Art Nouveau in England - the English New Art Style - Dr Scott Anderson
The works of artists and designers such as Aubrey Beardsley, Voysey, Walter Crane, W J Neatby etc.
The Peacock Skirt 1893 Aubrey Beardsley |
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May 10 |
Learning to Look at Paintings, Prints and Drawings - Mary Acton
The lecture will centre around aspects such as composition, space, form, tone, colour, subject matter and techniques trying to increase one's armoury of critical faculties and language which can be a great help when looking at works of art. |
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June 14 |
Crystal Clear - European Glass 1450 - 1900 - Simon Cottle
One of the world’s most respected experts in glass
and currently working with Bonhams, Simon is
a Fellow of the Guild of Glass Engravers and a trustee of the Glass
Engraver’s Trust, which is responsible for commissioning glass for No.
10 Downing Street. He was appointed Hon. President of the Glass Circle
in 2006. A Gottlob Samuel Mohn transparent enamelled Viennese beaker, dated 1812 |
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September 13 |
Art Illusion: Picture Puzzles from Mesopotamia to Magritte - David Phillips
From cave painters to Magritte artists have delighted in visual puzzles - are they just amusing effects or do they have more to reveal about artistic beauty?
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The Magritte Museum, Brussels
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October 11 (following the AGM) |
The Dollar Princesses - American Women who married into the European Aristocracy - Anne Sebba
This lecture examines the clothes, portraits and literature of the Dollar Princesses, the American heiresses who traded their fortune for European titles between 1870 and 1914.
Mary Endicot |
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November 8 |
Debussy and Monet - Janet Canetty-Clarke
Although the composer and the painter lived in Paris at the end of the 19th century as far as we know they never met. The lecturer will perform the music of Debussy on the piano whilst slides of Monet's works are on the screen. Janet Canetty-Clarke, B.Mus(London), ARAM, GRSM, LRAM, ARCM |
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December 13 (followed by Christmas Lunch at Loseley) |
"O yes it is!" A History of Pantomime from Ancient to Modern Times - Jane Tapley
The complex and fascinating development of pantomime from its Greek and Roman roots through the religious plays of the Middle Ages to the Italian Commedia Dell'Arte. Grimaldi, Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd and the soap stars of today contribute to the peculiarly British institution associated with the festive season.
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