by Bridget Garza Griffin | Jan 15, 2024 | Past Online Events
Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT, 10.30am – 5.00pm The 2024 Furniture History Society symposium, ‘New Light on Arts and Crafts Furniture and Interiors’, will be held on Saturday 23 March at the Art Workers’ Guild, Queen Square,...
by Bridget Garza Griffin | Jan 15, 2024 | Past Online Events, Uncategorized
A private visit to Rochester House and Vine House took place on Thursday 8th February with Dr Tessa Murdoch. Remarkable survivals of city mansions, both have been restored by Robert Tucker and his partner Jonathan Wilmot and furnished with 17th and 18th century...
by Rebecca Parker | Dec 20, 2023 | Past Online Events, Uncategorized
One Tuesday 16th January the Attingham Society conducted a private visit to the exhibition ‘Holbein at The Tudor Court’ Park at The Queen’s Gallery. This tour with Kate Heard, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings and curator of the exhibition,...
by Rebecca Parker | May 17, 2023 | Past Online Events
A special visit to Dyrham Park has been arranged with Dr Rupert Goulding following his very successful Attingham talk on Dyrham Park and Imperial Imagination in our Winter lecture series. Rupert (Summer School 2011) will lead the tour. He is the National Trust’s...
by Rebecca Parker | Apr 24, 2023 | Past Online Events
Alice de Rothschild, a member of the powerful European banking dynasty, was an avid art collector and creator of spectacular gardens at her residences in England and France. Yet her legacy has been overshadowed by the men of her family. Following new research related...
by Rebecca Parker | Apr 23, 2023 | Past Online Events
William Blathwayt (?1649-1717) constructed Dyrham Park between 1692 and 1704, a house and garden made to reflect his professional status, embodying his interconnected roles within political, military, and especially colonial administration. The house contained a rich...