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Supporters Newsletter Newsletter 2021 Newsletter FOR SUPPORTERS OF THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM SPRING 2021 LONGFORD CASTLE VISIT: Saturday 4th September 2021 NICHOLAS POPE: CANALETTO: new sculpture PAINTING VENICE display opens exhibition opens May 2021 May 2021 2 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US Contents Specialist gardening advice 2 Front cover images Top left: Sir Joshua Reynolds, (1723 - 1792) Jonno’s letter 3 The Honourable Anne Duncombe c.1786, oil on canvas, A message from Chris Stephens 4 © Longford Castle Collection Holburne Insights: re-opening the Museum 6 Top right: Exterior view of Longford An appreciation of Dr Marianna Clark 7 Below left: Nicholas Pope (1949 - ) Mini-poster for Plant Sale on 9th May 2021 8 Mr & Mrs Pope vased and flowered, 2016, glass, h.41cm flowers not included Learning and engagement: update 10 © Nicholas Pope, Pope Collection. Courtesy of the artist; Inspired by Canaletto: A Venetian-themed quiz 11 photograph by David Williams (NB answers are on p.13) Below right: Giovanni Antonio Canal, Canaletto: Painting Venice 12 called Canaletto (1697 - 1768) The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Holburne Insights: redisplay of the Plantation Day Book 14 with the Dogana and the Church of Santa Maria della Salute (detail) Longford Castle visit: Saturday 4th September 2021 15 1731-36, oil on canvas, © From the Woburn Abbey Collection Forthcoming new exhibitions at the Holburne 16 Antonia Johnson, who Do you have an unidentified many of you will know as tree or shrub? Would you the previous chairman of like some advice on how the Holburne Friends, or best to look after it, or prune from our own plant stall at a woody plant, or manage the annual plant sale, also an area of your garden? chairs the Scientific & In exchange for a modest Educational Committee of contribution to the Museum’s the International Dendrology coffers, I am happy to come Society. Antonia has kindly and visit.” offered to give specialist garden advice to help raise Antonia Johnson, some funds for the Museum: Dendrologist “Although we are in the grip If you are interested in more of both icy weather and information please email lockdown as I write, the world Antonia via: will once again warm up [email protected] and open up; and our Gymnocladus dioica in the Royal Victoria gardens will inevitably grow. Park, Bath © Antonia Johnson WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US 3 Jonno’s letter Dear Holburne Supporters, Those who braved the wintry joining the Committee does When you read this I hope it will chill to support our ‘pop-up’ have many rewards too). not be long before the Holburne Christmas sale will recall the Please get in touch via the can throw open the doors again array of delicious produce and Museum; we can offer advice and welcome everyone back. cakes for sale. We would love and help you get started. to have something similar Firstly I would like to say thank for the Plant Sale - do check We hope to re-introduce our you to Richard Frewer, who is the panel below for info series of day trips and events standing down from the Friends about how you could help. later this year. One such trip is Committee after many years of My thanks to Olivia, Simon, an exciting, and rare, chance sterling service to the Museum: Sally, Stephen, Sidney, David to visit Longford Castle, home as a Trustee and organiser and and Mark for making the to a collection of fine paintings, performer of many wonderful 2020 Christmas sale happen, tapestries, porcelain and musical events that have and thanks to an anonymous furniture. See details on p.15. greatly benefitted the Holburne. donor too, we raised over £1,000 for the Holburne! Thank you for your continued Spring is here, and thoughts turn support of the Holburne. I do to getting gardens ready for the Do you have time to spare hope to see you at the Plant brighter days ahead. We are and enjoy organising trips Sale and in the Museum soon. very glad that the first event this or events? Perhaps you are year will be our popular and fun recently retired, or know Plant Sale. We have a special someone who is, and needs a pull-out mini-poster for the ‘project’ to keep occupied?! Jonno Davis occasion on pages 8-9 with art Our solution: come and help Chairman, Holburne Supporters by Claire Ishino (claireishino.com), us by arranging a fund-raising who kindly let us use her work event - whether it’s a visit to If you can bake a cake or free of charge - please feel free a local garden, artist’s studio other tea-time treats, make to display it, and do put 9th or workshop, a talk or concert, jam or produce in a jar, May in your diaries. The Museum or a full day trip to a special please consider donating grounds will become a mini- place, we would love to hear some for us to sell at the garden centre, with beautiful from you. Plant Sale on Sunday 9th plants and herbs to buy. We will May. We are hoping to have also have a stall of fine quality Such events all help to raise a well-stocked stall with secondhand books on gardens, funds for the Museum, but are lots of tasty fare to tempt cooking and more. also lively social occasions - everyone into buying and a chance to meet fellow supporting the Holburne. Holburne supporters, and Do encourage your friends enjoy a special day out or a and family to join in, and visit to somewhere different. please label the ingredients. You won’t need to sit on the Contact Olivia Eliot for Supporters’ Committee or details on: anything formal, (although 01225 462156 Thank you! Jonno Davis 4 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US A message from Chris Stephens greatest surviving set of of the greatest masterpieces Canaletto’s views of Venice. of this form of art. They are Through twenty-three on display in the Davidson paintings, the exhibition takes Ballroom which, since we you up the Grand Canal to closed, has been opened up the Rialto Bridge and, from by the removal of the huge the far end, back down again, vitrine in the middle of the and finishes with views of room. We are looking forward various inland sites in the city, to the more varied range of Dear all, including the Piazza San displays and events that this It is a strange state of affairs Marco. The set, which has not will allow. when planning to reopen the been lent for seventy years, Museum after months of normally lives in the dining In the Picture Gallery we are enforced closure seems like room of Woburn Abbey, showing for the very first familiar territory. We have where the paintings hang time a series of sculptures by such a rich season coming up, three-high. So, this is a once- Nicholas Pope, a graduate of however, that the sense of in-a-lifetime opportunity to Bath Academy of Art, each of excited anticipation seems see Canaletto’s greatest which shows in abstract form even greater than last group of paintings up close. the artist, his wife and the summer when we emerged While so much is uncertain state of their marriage. from the first lockdown. about the summer, it is also Humorous and absurd, the Much of what is coming was a great opportunity to have sculptures are made of wood, originally planned for 2020 a little taste of Italy. metal, ceramic, glass and, and then postponed to even, shrunken knitwear, and January of this year and the Alongside Canaletto we offer an examination of a further delay of Lockdown 3 are showing an exquisite human relationship over five just whets our appetite all group of Islamic metalwork decades made all the more the more. from the Courtauld Collection. poignant by the death of the The craftsmanship is artist’s wife late last year. The headline event coming extraordinary and the up is our display of the exhibition includes some Top left: Chris Stephens, photograph © Clare Green Left: Metalwork bag, Iraq, Mosul (Ilkhanid dynasty 1256-1353) c.1300-1330 brass, hammered, engraved and inlaid with silver and gold. The Courtauld, London (The Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US FUTURE EVENTS FOR ALL MUSEUM SUPPORTERS 5 A message from Chris Stephens continued Finally, hot on the heels of the are making about works in our you can enjoy a meal or a Holburne’s starring role in collection. On the subject of drink even in bad weather. Netflix’s Bridgerton, we are the website, in a radical In May, come and stock up bringing Regency Bath’s most departure for us, from May your garden or window box famous resident back for a we will be presenting Thomas at the Friends of the Holburne summer stay. From July to Lawrence: Coming of Age, Plant Sale on Sunday 9th September, we will be showing focused on the artist prodigy’s and look out for a weekend the only accepted portrait of early life in Bath, as an online of family workshops and Jane Austen (on loan from the exhibition. The accompanying entertainment over the late National Portrait Gallery) who book by Amina Wright is May Bank Holiday (29th-31st). once lived across the road and already out and can be bought Hopefully, by then the used to enjoy our gardens. from our online shop. Museum will be fully open. Jane will be one of several new additions to the collection We cannot wait to get open Until then, thank you to displays in our Posnett and and to see our loyal visitors everyone for your support Fletcher galleries.
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