Past Events
2020
January
The Fitzwilliam Exhibition on Food and Art
Vicky Avery
February
Women Artists
Vivien Heffernan
November
Cranach at Compton Verney, Spotlight on the Northern European Collection
Amy Orrock
Zoom
December
When Persia Came to London, an Introduction to the Arts of Iran
Fuchsia Hart
Zoom
2021
Two of these meetings were originally arranged as face-to-face talks.
January
Cezanne, the Mont Saint-Victoire and Bibemus Quarry
Dr Paul Smith
Zoom
February
Hogarth: Caricaturist or Character Painter?
Vivien Heffernan
Zoom
March
Annual General Meeting and
Graffiti in some North Cotswold Churches
David Freke
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April
Clara in Qatar: a new life for a Meissen Porcelain Rhinoceros
Dr Sophie Bostock
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May
Art in the Landscape
Sarah Shalgosky
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June
Chinese Art in the Royal Collection
Rachel Peat
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August
Visit to Sulgrave Manor
September
Shottery tea
The Status of the Oriental Carpet in Venetian Paintings of the Renaissance
Dianne Page
October
The Artists of the Artists Rifles
Patrick Baty
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November
Laura Knight exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery
December
Compton Verney
Lectures and exhibitions on Grinling Gibbons and John Nash
2022
January
Rana Begum at the Mead Gallery, Warwick University and tour of the new Faculty of Arts
February
British Artists in Love with the Landscape – Gainsborough to Hockney
Vivien Heffernan
March
George Romney – an Underappreciated Georgian Painter
Adam Busiakiewicz, art historian
April
Pissarro: Father of Impressionism.
Exhibition at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
June
5-day trip to Sussex, based at Eastsbourne.
July and August
Visit to the Glass Museum, Stourbridge
September
‘Before and After’ – The Restoration of Paintings. Talk by Simon Foster.
October
The Paint Detective, a Zoom lecture by Patrick Baty
November
Cézanne, a Zoom lecture by Paul Smith
December
The Chinese collection at Compton Verney. Lecture and handling of objects
2023
January
Zoom lecture on Kelmscott Hall and William Morris by Mariska Beekenkamp-Wladimiroff
February
The Sistine Chapel. Lecture by Ross King.
March
Upton House – the two Lord Bearsteds. Talk by Tony Mawbey.
April
Visit to Kelmscott Manor