Art for Better Mental Health: Online Drawing Session
Drawing from the Past: Evelyn De Morgan Explore three paintings by the extraordinary Evelyn De Morgan, who defied the expectations of her class and gender [...]
Victorian Art Quiz
Do you fancy yourself as the next Lord Lloyd Webber? Do you have a Jeremy Paxman level of Victorian art history knowledge? It's time to [...]
William De Morgan’s Tiles
OnlineRob Higgins is the author of several books on William De Morgan and a specialist in Victorian Arts and Crafts Tiles. In this online talk, Rob kindly shares his personal collection of De Morgan with us. He will speak about his current research on De Morgan's Dutch blanks and share some of his rare and unique tiles with us.
The Extraordinary Life and Art of Aubrey Beardsley
OnlineThis talk will take a look at the extraordinary life and art of Aubrey Beardsley. With Tate Britain’s current exhibition as a spring-board, it will [...]
Pre-Raph Girl Gang – online talk with Kirsty Stonell Walker
Evelyn De Morgan was definitely a mover and shaker of the Pre-Raphaelite movement! Kirsty tells us more. About this Event Evelyn De Morgan was definitely [...]
Visions in Gold – Online Lecture
Evelyn De Morgan's seldom seem golden drawings are considered and interpreted together as a series for the first time. Throughout her career, Evelyn De Morgan [...]
Pre-Raphaelite Circles: The De Morgans and the Lovelaces
Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley married into the Lovelace family, inheriting an artistic, mathematical and literary legacy. But who was she? An influential triumvirate entered the Slade [...]
Exhibition Tour of Homecoming: The De Morgan Collection Returns to Chelsea
Celebrating a new partnership and exhibition, De Morgan curator, Sarah Hardy, gives a tour of the De Morgan exhibition at Cromwell Place The De Morgan [...]
Wightwick Manor’s Pioneering Collectors
Helen Bratt-Wyton, House and Collections Manager at the magical National Trust property, Wightwick Manor and Gardens is our special guest Helen has worked at Wightwick [...]
The Joe Setton Collection: from Pre-Raphaelites to Last Romantics
Christie's Sarah Reynolds joins us to discuss Pre-Raphaelite collector Joe Setton and tells us the fascinating history of his paintings. Inspired by Percy Bate’s seminal [...]
Ether and Alternative Geometries in Evelyn De Morgan’s Paintings c. 1909
New Direction in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art Seminar #2 Emma Merkling, Courtauld Institute 26 October 2020 Emma Merkling is a PhD candidate in History of [...]
More than ‘society beauties’?: The women in G F Watts’s portraits
‘Nature did not intend me for a portrait painter’ said GF Watts. Stacey Clapperton demonstrates that he was actually a prolific portraitist It is difficult [...]
William Morris and his Palace of Art: revealing and re-evaluating Red House
Curator Tessa Wild reveals exciting discoveries which were made by the National Trust when recently conserving William Morris's Red House Red House in Bexleyheath, Kent, [...]
Caring and Creativity in the Work of Christina Rossetti
‘Occupation and Interruptions’: Caring and Creativity in the Work of Pre-Raphaelite poet, Christina Rossetti Please donate what you can. Recommended is £5.Dinah Roe will discuss [...]
William De Morgan’s life and work
Born on 16 November in 1839 was William De Morgan. De Morgan Curator, Sarah Hardy,will introduce De Morgan's life and work. In this intimate portrait [...]
Made in Chelsea: William and Evelyn De Morgan’s life and work 1883 – 1919
Discover how William and Evelyn De Morgan's careers and artworks were directed by their lives together in Chelsea. Sources describing the De Morgans' first meeting [...]
Myth and Magic: Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale and Evelyn De Morgan
Esteemed art historian Dr Pamela Gerrish Nunn joins Sarah Hardy to discuss the similar ideals and artworks of two brilliant female artists In conversation with [...]
William Morris and William De Morgan at Merton Abbey
Morris and De Morgan described the factory at Merton as a 'Fictionary' as the location was so idyllic, like a work of fiction to them. [...]
In the Bleak Midwinter – Symbolic winter in late-Victorian art
Deathly cold, grey skies, and blankets of pure white snow were all wintery symbols used by Victorian artists to convey emotion and meaning These symbols [...]
How a stunning Pre-Raphaelite collection found its way to Delaware, USA
Including masterpieces by Rossetti, Millais, and Maddox Brown, this collection is one of the best Pre-Raphaelite collections in the world. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood formed in [...]
Saints & Symbols – Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass
Join us for the launch party of the third publication in this beautifully illustrated book series of Pre-Raphaelite stained glassArchitectural photographer Alastair Carew Cox shares [...]
The Art of Frederic Leighton and Leighton House
Senior Curator of Leighton House Museum, Daniel Robbins, will discuss the beautiful, opulent studio home of artist Frederic, Lord LeightonFrederic Leighton’s studio-house (now Leighton House [...]
The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite: Frederic George Stephens
This illustrated lecture will explore the art of F. G. Stephens (1827–1907), an overlooked founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodWE RECOMMEND A DONATION OF £5 [...]
Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics
We warmly welcome Heather Bozant Witcher and Amy Kahrmann Huseby to discuss their latest publication on the poetics of the Pre-Raphaelites Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers [...]
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
Christiana Payne will talk about the planning of the forthcoming exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite Drawings at the Ashmolean.RECOMMENDED DONATION IS £5From sketches on the back of [...]
‘Kick the Queen!’ Evelyn De Morgan and Royalty
Evelyn De Morgan used queens and crowns throughout her paintings as part of her complex visual language. Discover their meaning in this talkBorn into a [...]