Events for The Intimate Portrait

Lunchtime lectures

Closets, cabinets and ‘in my Lady’s chamber’?
The place of portrait drawings in Britain in the long 18th century
Thursday 2 April, 13.15
BP Lecture Theatre
Exhibition curator Kim Sloan,
British Museum
Admission free, booking advised

Intimate viewing in Georgian Britain: the private face and public display of portraits in miniature and on paper
Monday 20 April, 13.15
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Exhibition curator Stephen Lloyd,
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Admission free, booking advised

 

Gallery talks

All gallery talks are at 13.15 in Room 90
Admission free, no pre-booking

Intimate portraiture and Scottish artists from Allan Ramsay to Archibald Skirving
Thursday 26 March
Exhibition curator Stephen Lloyd, Scottish National Portrait Gallery

John Downman’s 'Distinguished Persons'
Wednesday 15 April
Jane Munro, Fitzwilliam Museum

Drawing for business or drawing for pleasure?
Thursday 23 April
Exhibition curator Kim Sloan, British Museum

Private passions: women and the intimate portrait
Saturday 9 May
Clare Barlow, King’s College London

The intimate portrait: an introduction to private portraits from the 18th and 19th centuries
Thursday 28 May
Vanessa Remington, Royal Collections

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