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BENEFACTORS OF THE PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 2017

a family collection a national museum an international treasure house 1 CONTENTS

Events for all Benefactors 2 – 11

Additional events for Benefactors at Patron level and above 12 – 15

Art Fairs 16 – 17

10th Annual Trip for Benefactors. 18 – 19 Masterpieces in Madrid: Exploring the city of Velázquez and Goya

Additional events for Benefactors at 20 – 21 Seymour-Conway level and above

Claude-Jean Pitoin, 1781, France, Candlestick, Gilt bronze and blue enamel

The publication accompanying Dr Helen Jacobsen’s forthcoming exhibition BENEFACTOR LEVELS Gilded Interiors: French Masterpieces in Gilt Bronze has been in part generously Companions: £600+ sponsored by Mr Nicolas Cattelain. Patrons: £1,250+ Seymour-Conway Group: £5,000+ Your continued support for our research, conservation and education Hertford Circle: £10,000+ programmes is greatly valued. EVENTS FOR ALL BENEFACTORS

To book please contact [email protected] 020 7563 9569

February

Private tour of Emma Hamilton: Seduction & Celebrity at the and tour of the Queen’s House, Greenwich Wednesday 15 February 2017 9.00 – 11.00am Join us for a private tour of Emma Hamilton, the eagerly anticipated exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. Now largely remembered as the woman who captured the heart of the nation’s hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson, Emma’s extraordinary life is explored and her beauty immortalised in paintings by and others in this exhibition. Following this, we will enjoy a guided tour of the newly refurbished Queen’s House. Inigo Jones’s architectural masterpiece, built between 1616 and 1635, has reopened after major restoration and now boasts 22 spectacular rooms filled with fine spanning 400 years. The iconic Armada Portrait of Queen is also on permanent display for the first time. The Queen’s House, Greenwich 2 3 EVENTS FOR ALL BENEFACTORS

February April May

Private tour and drinks reception Private tour of the historical dress reserves Private tour and opening at the at at the Museum of Wallace Collection Tuesday 28 February 2017 Wednesday 19 April 2017 Gilded Interiors: French Masterpieces in 6.30 – 8.30pm 4.00 – 5.30pm Gilt Bronze Join us for a private evening tour and drinks With over 22,000 items of historical dress in Wednesday 3 May 2017 reception with the Senior Curator of Leighton its stores, dating from the fourth century to 6.00 – 6.30pm followed by the opening party House Museum, Daniel Robbins. We will the present day, the holds until 8.00pm enjoy a special insight into the life, work and the UK’s second largest collection of Fashion Featuring gilt-bronze works from the very residence of Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830 – and Textiles. Led by the museum’s Curator of best workshops, this exhibition will celebrate 1896), President of the Royal Academy from Fashion & Decorative Timothy Long, this Bourbon Court favourites Gouthière, Rémond, 1878 to 1896, and one of the pre-eminent private visit to the Fashion Stores offers the and Pitoin. Clocks, candelabra, hardstone artists of his day. Leighton House Museum, chance to see a selection of the museum’s tables and mounted will be the former home of this enigmatic figure, and exquisite collection of eighteenth-century displayed alongside architectural drawings the only purpose-built studio-house open pieces. of Ancient Rome, underlining the close to the public, features intricate mosaics and connection between these masterpieces walls lined with detailed Islamic tiles. of decorative art and Antique sources. The beautiful drawings, by one of the foremost On this exclusive visit we will also view the architects of his day, Pierre-Adrien Pâris exhibition : The Making of an Icon (1745 – 1819), have never before been seen which unites Leighton’s most famous and in Britain. Our Senior Curator, Dr Helen celebrated works in his home for the first time Jacobsen, will discuss the importance of in 125 years. architects in French decorative art and the Pierre Gouthière, 1774 – 5, sources from where they derived so much France, Perfume Burner, inspiration. Jasper and gilt bronze

Silk and linen dress, back view 1764 – 1766 © Museum of London

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June

An evening at the Wallace Collection: The Director’s Annual Lecture at the ‘The Gilded Age: models from the Linke Wallace Collection furniture workshop’ A Masterpiece of portraiture: Goya’s Condesa Monday 5 June 2017 de Chinchón 6.00 – 8.00pm Monday 12 June 2017 Join Senior Curator Dr Helen Jacobsen in 6.30 – 8.00pm conversation with furniture expert and curator When Goya’s portrait of the Countess of of the François Linke archive, Christoper Chinchón was acquired by the Spanish state Payne and Jürgen Huber, Senior Furniture and allocated to the Museo del Prado in 2000 Conservator at the Wallace Collection for a it was a moment of great jubilation. Having special evening in the Conservation Gallery hung in the private home of the Countess’s to discuss cabinet-making in the eighteenth heirs since it was painted in 1800, it could and nineteenth centuries. Using models now be appreciated publicly for the first time. and cabinet-maker’s plans from Linke’s Undoubtedly Goya’s finest portrait of a female workshop, we will learn about the techniques sitter, it possesses an extraordinary presence. employed by these master craftsmen and the In this lecture, Dr Xavier Bray, who was the way in which design ideas were turned into curator of Goya: The Portraits at the National masterpieces of furniture. Gallery (2015 – 2016), will explore the context in which it was painted and consider Goya’s exceptional ability as portrait painter to delve deeper than simply what we see before us.

Join us for drinks at the Wallace Collection followed by this insightful lecture.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828), Portrait of María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga, 15th Countess of Chinchón Plaster model from the François Linke archive © Museo Nacional del Prado

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June July

Private view at the Private Breakfast view of the Sotheby’s Michelangelo | Sebastiano: A Meeting of Minds Treasures sale Wednesday 14 June 2017 Monday 3 July 2017 8.45 – 10.00am 9.30 – 11.00am Centred on the collaborations between these Join the Wallace Collection for a Private two remarkable artists, which began with Breakfast view of the Sotheby’s Treasures their meeting in Rome in 1511, this exhibition sale. Inaugurated in 2010, the Treasures explores their collective output. Works that sale is one of the pre-eminent decorative art precede their meeting will also be on display, auctions of the year. The sale will once again as well as examples of their extensive and exhibit carefully curated masterpieces of intimate correspondence, providing behind- Furniture, Silver, Vertu, Clocks and Sculpture. the-scenes insight into their personal and Starting at 9.30am, we will enjoy a buffet creative lives, their concerns and frustrations, breakfast and privileged view of the sale, and moments of glory. accompanied by Sotheby’s specialists.

Join us for a private view of these influential works at the National Gallery. Private tour and opening at the Wallace Collection French Drawings from Karlsruhe July 2017 (date subject to final confirmation) 6.00 – 6.30pm followed by the opening party until 8.00pm Tying in with a successful series of drawings exhibitions previously held at the Wallace A gold and hardstone portrait snuff box, Collection, we will present a selection Johann Christian Neuber, of works from the Staatliche Kunsthalle Dresden, c. 1770 One of the highlights to be offered in Karlsruhe, ranging from the seventeenth to the Treasures sale at Sotheby’s in 2017. the nineteenth century.Including drawings from eighteenth-century artists that are also prominently represented at the Wallace Collection, the nineteenth-century is represented with illustrious names such as Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Paul Gauguin.

Join us for drinks and an exclusive preview Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1485 – 1547), tour before the opening party. The Raising of Lazarus, © National Gallery

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September October November

Private tour of the Crown Jewels and a tour of the Private tour and opening Private view at Britain Private view at the at the at the Wallace Collection Impressionists in London National Gallery Friday 15 September 2017 Spanish Masterpieces from November 2017 Monochrome: painting in 8.15 – 10.30am the Bowes Museum (date subject to final black and white The Tower has been home to the Crown Jewels – the October (date subject to confirmation) Tuesday 28 November 2017 world’s most magnificent and valuable collection of crowns, final confirmation) In the 1870s, France was 8.45 – 10.00am coronation regalia and jewels – since the seventeenth century. 6.00 – 6.30pm followed devastated by the Franco- In the first ever major Join us for this exclusive early morning tour and view the by the opening party until Prussian war. Richard exhibition to focus on priceless collection inside the Jewel House before the Tower 8.00pm Wallace, residing in Paris painting in black and white, opens to the public. Following this, we will head to the White To celebrate its 150th during this tumultuous period, Monochrome presents a Tower, to be shown around the Royal Armouries by Bridget anniversary, the Bowes played an essential charitable series of case studies that Clifford, Keeper of the Tower Armouries. Museum will generously lend role in the conflict, organising investigate where and when us a selection of Spanish medical care for the wounded grisaille painting was used masterpieces from the during the 1871 Siege of and to what effect: from early sixteenth- to eighteenth- Paris and later donating the religious works to paintings centuries. The paintings, Wallace drinking fountains. that emulate sculpture or The White Tower, which include rare works by Also facing the bloody respond to other media. Tower of London El Greco, Goya and others, trials of this period were Comprising works on glass, reflect the discernment the brightest impressionist vellum, ceramic, silk, wood of the founders John and talents, many of whom were and canvas by artists such as Joséphine Bowes, who forced to seek refuge across da Vinci, , Degas were collecting in the mid- the Channel. This exhibition and Picasso, Monochrome nineteenth century when presents captivating works encourages visitors to trace the great Spanish masters by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro the fascinating history of this were not usually fashionable and their compatriots and little-studied technique. among collectors. These maps the connections forged works complement the between French and British Spanish paintings at the artists, patrons and art Wallace, including artists dealers. Highlighting their not represented in the engagement with British permanent collection. culture, traditions and social life, their art is a fascinating Join us for drinks and an insight into how London was exclusive preview tour before perceived by the visiting the opening party. French artists.

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BENEFACTORS The Wallace Collection in Paris: Focus on…Bronzes Private Tour of the Rosalinde and AT PATRON Two Exceptional Tours Thursday 2 March 2017 Arthur Gilbert Galleries at the V&A Tuesday 10 – Wednesday 11 January 2017 9.00 – 10.30am Thursday 6 April 2017 LEVEL AND Join us in Paris for an afternoon private view Leda Cosentino, Curator of Sculpture at the 9.00 – 10.00am ABOVE at the Musée Nissim de Camondo with the Wallace Collection and Research Assistant The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries Chief Curator, Madame Sylvie Legrand-Rossi. for the recently published Catalogue of Italian at the V&A re-opened at the end of 2016 Inside this richly furnished former family Sculpture at the Wallace Collection, will give to display in appropriate splendour one of home, we will be given a privileged view us an engaging and privileged insight into the world’s most important collections of To book please contact of the highlights of the collection, and the select pieces from our bronze sculpture Decorative Art. Over 500 precious objects [email protected] exhibition Les Services “Aux Oiseaux Buffon” collection. With the opportunity to see a few amassed by twentieth-century collectors 020 7563 9569 du Comte Moïse de Camondo: une encyclopédie of these pieces intimately and out of their Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert, including sur porcelaine: a unique display of the ‘Buffon’ display cases their craftmanship can truly be European silver and gold plate, delicate gold Sèvres services alongside the volumes and appreciated. boxes, Italian mosaics and enamel portrait engravings of l’Histoire naturelle des oiseaux miniatures are available to view. Highlights which inspired its creation. This event will be followed by coffee and include a rare Tudor silver-gilt casting bottle, pastries in the restaurant. snuffboxes belonging to Frederick the Great, The following morning, our brief Parisian and a seventeenth-century Peruvian gold sojourn will also include a curator-led tour of bowl recovered from a shipwreck. the ’s newly redesigned eighteenth- Evensong and private tour of century Galleries. The The tour will be led by Timothy Schroder, Wallace Collection’s Senior Curator, Dr Helen Thursday 23 March 2017 Wallace Collection Trustee and and author of L’appartement de Moïse de Camondo © Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris Jacobsen, will accompany both visits. 4.45 – 7.15pm several publications on the Gilbert Collection. Pietro Torrigiani’s Head of Christ is famously known at the Wallace Collection for its unique quality but also for its provenance, as it was originally sculpted for Westminster Abbey along with other pieces commissioned by Henry VIII. Retrace the steps of this sculpture and join us for an afterhours tour of Westminster Abbey. The evening will begin with Evensong followed by a tour of the Abbey, finishing with a visit to the triforium, 70ft above the nave floor, and an area which has never before been accessible to the public.

Partridge cup, 1598 – 1602, Nuremberg, Germany © The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum

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May June September

Tour of Exbury Gardens, Hampshire Private Breakfast tour of the 2017 Focus on…Spanish Paintings Tuesday 9 May 2017 Masterpiece Fair Tuesday 26 September 2017 9.30 – returning early evening Thursday 29 June 2017 9.00 – 10.30am (complimentary coach departing from 9.00 – 11.00am Dr Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace central London) Join us for our annual breakfast and and curator of such exhibitions Please join us for a day at Exbury Gardens, tour of this leading fair for art, antiques and as Goya: The Portraits at the National Gallery kindly hosted by Wallace Collection Trustee, design. Showcasing works that span over in 2015, and Murillo – The Art of Friendship at Kate de Rothschild Agius and her husband 4,000 years of art history, from antiquity Picture Gallery in 2013, offers us an Marcus Agius. We will travel from London to the present day, the Fair creates an insight into Spanish painting at the Wallace together to Exbury Gardens in the New Forest unparalleled event for collectors, and provides Collection. Holding exceptional examples of where we will be given a tour, led by Kate something of interest for every visitor. works by Bartolomé-Esteban Murillo, Diego and Marcus, of the award-winning Gardens, Velázquez and Alonso Cano, The Wallace renowned for their rhododendrons, azaleas, Join us for coffee and pastries before a Collection Great Gallery provides us with camellias and rare trees and shrubs. We tour led by Adrian Sassoon, member of our the resources for a masterclass in Spanish will enjoy lunch at Kate and Marcus’ home International Council and distinguished art painting. where we will also have the opportunity to dealer. see her Drawings Collection. We This event will be followed by coffee and will finish the day with a ride on the famous pastries in the restaurant. Exbury steam train and have a quick cup of Exbury Gardens, tea in Mr Eddy’s Tea Rooms before returning Hampshire to London.

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Wallace Collection Benefactors at TEFAF Salon du Dessin Art & Antiques Fair Patron level and above are warmly Maastricht Paris London, Olympia welcomed at the art fairs below. Friday 10 – Sunday 19 March 2017 Wednesday 22 – Monday 27 March 2017 Tuesday 27 June – Sunday 2 July 2017 Contact the Fundraising Office to TEFAF, the internationally acclaimed art and Assembled in the remarkable setting of the The Art & Antiques Fair attracts around receive your complimentary ticket. antiques fair, offers masterpieces for purchase Palais Brongniart, the Salon du Dessin sets 30,000 visitors every year. Loved by from 275 of the world’s most prestigious itself apart from other Salons by showcasing collectors, interior designers and those dealers. The TEFAF Young Dealers’ old, modern and contemporary drawings to a looking for exceptional pieces for stylish Committee will be organising a number crowd of collectors and curators from across interiors, the Fair offers a fine array of objects. of private events around the fair and have the globe. extended an invitation to Benefactors of the Masterpiece Wallace Collection. Frieze NY London, Royal Hospital Chelsea New York Thursday 29 June – Wednesday 5 July 2017 Friday 5 – Sunday 7 May 2017 Masterpiece is a leading cross-collecting Frieze New York 2017 brings together leading fair for art, antiques and design. Offering for galleries, innovative curated sections, a sale works from over 150 leading galleries celebrated series of talks, site-specific worldwide, Masterpiece provides a unique artist commissions and the city’s chicest opportunity to buy the best pieces available restaurants, all in a bespoke structure across multiple disciplines. overlooking the East River in Randall’s Island Masterpiece Fair, London Park, Manhattan. Frieze London & Frieze Masters London, Regent’s Park Thursday 5 – Sunday 8 October 2017 While Frieze London offers the opportunity to view and buy art from over 1,000 of today’s leading artists, Frieze Masters showcases art from the ancient era and Old Masters to the late Twentieth Century. Explore the fair at your leisure and take a look at the world’s new acquisitions.

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10th Annual Trip for Benefactors

Masterpieces in Madrid: Exploring the city of Velázquez and Goya Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 October 2017 Dr Xavier Bray is delighted to invite you to join him on the Wallace Collection’s 10th Annual Benefactors’ Trip for a unique exploration of one of Europe’s great capitals of art and culture, Madrid.

Together we will discover some of the hidden gems of Madrid on a trip that will include private access to some of Madrid’s most celebrated museums, visits to several outstanding but lesser known museums, behind-the-scenes tours of Madrid’s royal palaces, as well as specially arranged visits to some of Spain’s outstanding private collections.

Our programme will include a tour of the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, one of Madrid’s most astonishing, but little visited, private art collections, which was bequeathed to the Spanish State in 1947. We will also explore both the Museo Sorolla, the delightful former home and studio of Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923), a Valencian artist whose fame rested largely on his depictions of the landscapes and people of Spain, paintings that were imbued with the unique luminismo that shone through his work; and the National Archaeological Museum, which has recently re-opened after extensive renovation and includes remarkable exhibits from Spain and beyond, ranging in date from prehistoric to the eighteenth century.

We will visit the Prado on two occasions with special access to the Prints and Drawings Department – to study a selection of Goya’s extraordinary drawings – as well as a tour of the Conservation studios in the new Rafael Moneo wing.

Finally, we will have private access to some of Madrid’s royal palaces: the King’s private apartments at the Palacio Real; the Bourbon private apartments at El Escorial (with the original Goya tapestries based on the cartoons we will have seen at the Prado), and the Casita del Principe, Charles IV’s personal pleasure house which is seldom open to the public; the private apartments and garden at the Palacio de Aranjuez, including the palace theatre with a ceiling painted by Anton Rafael Mengs; and a privileged visit to the famed armouries of the Real Armería de Madrid with Dr Tobias Capwell.

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599 – 1660), To reserve a place, please contact Lauren Turner at Las Meninas [email protected] or on 02075639569 © Museo Nacional del Prado

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THE SEYMOUR- Director’s Dinner CONWAY GROUP Monday 24 April 2017 7.00 – 10.00pm AND THE Dr Xavier Bray, the Director of the Wallace Collection, HERTFORD is delighted to host a celebratory black tie dinner CIRCLE to personally thank the Collection’s most generous supporters. Please join us for Xavier’s inaugural Director’s Dinner in one of our sumptuous galleries for an evening to say thank you for your continued generosity. To book please contact [email protected] Behind-the-scenes at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, 020 7563 9569 Cambridge University. The conservation of the Wallace Collection’s Venetian Vedute paintings (by appointment only) The Wallace Collection is undertaking the ambitious and exciting step of analysing, researching and cleaning our eighteenth-century Venetian Vedute paintings. This project is being launched in collaboration with the Hamilton Kerr institute at the University of Cambridge, and will culminate in the publication of a detailed monograph and a re-imagining of the Vedute display at the Wallace Collection.

Please contact the Fundraising Office to arrange a private appointment at the Hamilton Kerr institute to view the treatment of these paintings and to learn more about funding opportunities.

Hertford Circle Members

Hertford Circle Members have the opportunity to host a champagne breakfast in one of the galleries at the Wallace Collection for up to fifteen guests followed by a private tour with the Director.

Francesco Guardi (1712 – 1793), Venice: Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana (detail)

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