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 [...]