2023
Jan 17 | Visit | Visit to the National Gallery |
Jan 24 | Visit | Evening visit to the ING Barings Bank Art Collection #1 |
Feb 7 | Lecture | The Beauty and History of Frames |
Feb 14 | Study morning | Archaeology – Travels with a Trowel |
Feb 15 | Visit | Royal School of Needlework and the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace #1 |
March 7 | Lecture | The Flowering of the British Renaissance |
March 16 | Visit | Royal School of Needlework and the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace #2 |
March 23 | Visit | Evening visit to the ING Barings Bank Art Collection #2 |
April 4 | Lecture | Royal Jewels and the American Heiress |
April 20 | Visit | A Visit to Blenheim Palace |
May 2 | Lecture | The Birth, Growth and Influence of London’s Greatest Auction Houses. This is a “Bring Friends Free” lecture. |
May 9 | Visit | Glorious Greenwich |
May 31 | Study morning | Italian Baroque Sculptors, Bernini and Canova |
June 6 | Lecture | The History and Mystery of Crypto-portraits in Western Art |
June 21 | Visit | A walk to view beautiful stained glass windows in City churches |
July 4 | Lecture | Around the World in Stunning Aviation Posters |
July 12 | Visit | Kings Cross and St Pancras |
Aug 1 | Lecture | Pioneering Potteries of the South West |
Aug 8 | Visit | Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham |
Sept 5 | Lecture | Vivaldi in Venice. This is a “Bring Friends Free” lecture. |
Sept 14 | Visit | The Clocks Collection at the British Museum |
Oct 3 | Lecture | Mediterranean Archipelago: Exploring Malta in the UK’s Public Art Collection |
Oct 12 | Visit | Ranger’s House and the Fan Museum in Greenwich |
Oct 26 | Study morning | Revised date for the study morning on Rare and Exquisite Vessels for Perfume |
Nov 7 | Lecture | This lecture is being rearranged due to illness |
Nov 29 | Visit | The Neasden Hindu Temple |
Dec 5 | Lecture | Charles Dickens, the Great Performer |
Dec 15 | Visit | The National Portrait Gallery |
2024 |
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Jan | Lecture | There is no lecture in January |
Feb 6 | Lecture | An Easy Day for a Lady: Women Mountaineers |
Feb 14 | Study morning | An Introduction to, and New Advances in, Ice Age Art |
March 5 | Lecture | Everywhere the Glint of Gold: the Discovery of a Pharoah’s Tomb |
April 2 | Lecture | American Impressionism in the Garden |
May 7 | Lecture | Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Passion of Musical Theatre. This is a “Bring Friends Free” lecture. |
May 29 | Study morning | The Goeblin and Mortlake Tapestries and How They Were Made |
June 4 | Lecture | The Triumph of Lutyens – New Delhi |
July 2 | Lecture | Imperial Chinese Court Arts and Portraiture – Emperors, Ancestors and Jesuits |
Aug 6 | Lecture | Fiction Fallacy and Fake News: Spin and Propaganda Through the Ages |
More dates will be added when they have been confirmed.