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Newsletter FOR SUPPORTERS OF THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM SPRING 2021

LONGFORD CASTLE VISIT: Saturday 4th September 2021

NICHOLAS POPE: CANALETTO: new sculpture 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 (detail) Longford Castle visit: Saturday 4th September 2021 15 1731-36, oil on canvas, © From the 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 , 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 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 . 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, (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 (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. and supporters again. Do even while we are closed. come as soon as you can. We are looking forward to While we are waiting for these Our Garden Café will open for seeing you all. treats, do keep an eye on our outdoor service as part of website. Please join in our Step 2 of the Prime Minister’s With best wishes, Chris weekly Creativity 4 Wellbeing roadmap to normality, hope- sessions on Wednesdays and fully April 12th, and we have a look out for the short films we marquee on the terrace so Dr Chris Stephens, Director

right: Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen (1773-1845) pencil and watercolour, circa 1810 Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries, 1948 National Portrait Gallery, NPG 3630 by kind permission 6 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US Holburne Insights: re-opening the Museum

While the Museum has been the steel sections which were closed during lockdown, we then physically carried out have been busy breathing by six men to the balcony new life into the Ballroom where contractors used an at the Holburne ready for a extendable forklift to lower new season of exhibitions. the sections to ground level. Following the de-installation of the Bow porcelain last We understand the new Autumn, the long table and owners will repair and reuse perspex case were removed the table as part of a hobby and given a new home - workshop. The perspex ‘repurposed’. The vision is to panels in part have been create a flexible space for reused for our shop display exhibitions and collection with surplus panels being displays. used by ’s Art and Design students. and conservator Terry The huge table was made in Some of the perspex was Brotheridge and his team Germany and installed as part given a whole new lease of worked their magic on the of the Museum refit in 2010. life and reshaped into late 18th-century chandelier The table was then encased snowflakes (see picture in the Ballroom (pictured in a large clear perspex box below), which were sent out above). The whole process which protected the objects in December to long term took an entire day and on display, while still giving Holburne supporters to adorn involved removing every Museum visitors a full 360o their Christmas trees. piece of glass, cleaning each view of the collection as part separately before re- they walked around the table, assembling the chandelier. as the centrepiece of the Returned to its former glory, room. The main frame of the the chandelier is now ready table was quite a feat of for when we can welcome manufacturing, made of high- you all back to the Museum. quality steel assembled in The space is filled with light three sections to provide a and perfect for the next clear span below, with no exhibition there - Precious central support. The frame and Rare: Islamic Metalwork. was then overlaid with panels to create a table 8 metres in The Ballroom now feels length, and weighing 900kgs, completely refreshed and is, which presented great With the Museum still closed once again, one of the most challenges when it came to we're taking the opportunity beautiful rooms in Bath. its removal. The tabletop had to do some spring cleaning. We look forward to sharing it to be cut into three panels to Back in January, for example and all its new possibilities gain access and take apart specialist chandelier cleaner with you in 2021 and beyond. WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US FUTURE EVENTS FOR ALL MUSEUM SUPPORTERS 7 An appreciation of Dr Marianna Clark 1922-2020

She completed her medical Patrons and Friends, attending studies at Edinburgh events and participating University, graduating in 1947. in visits where her interest, After moving to Bath in 1952, insight and practical good she was a locum for practices sense enhanced the occasion. here on a regular basis. She was a generous donor She lived in Bath for over to the Friends’ fundraising sixty years, being a councillor, auction of Antiques and Lady Mayoress, and magistrate. Collectables in 2011, giving Marianna was one of the some silver-gilt spoons founders of the Museum of originally in William Beckford’s Bath at Work which she collection and an 18th-century tirelessly supported, and was portrait of a lady, among an early campaigner against several other items. Marianna Clark (pictured traffic pollution in the city, so above, in 1966) who died in she would no doubt have Christopher Woodward, a November last year was for approved of the new ‘clean air former Director of the almost seven decades a loyal zone’ being introduced here! Holburne, remembers visiting and very generous supporter her to look at a drawing by of the Holburne. She was One of many projects she Picasso for an exhibition: born in Stolberg to a Polish helped was the replacement ”and she said ‘take it’, and I father and German mother. of more than 1000 finials cycled down the hill with it In 1939 the family fled to on the railings in Lansdown in my bicycle basket! She England from the Nazis, and Crescent which had been was a very trusting person”. she went on to study at the missing since WWII. Polish School of Medicine in She was also a trustee of Marianna is survived by her Edinburgh, and married St John’s Hospital. four children, eleven grand- Stephen Clark, great-grand children and eight great- son of the founder of the Marianna was an enthusiastic grandchildren. family’s shoe company. supporter of the Holburne’s Written by Sidney Blackmore

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Image ‘Breathe’ used with thanks to Claire Ishino 10 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US Learning and engagement: an update

Pathways to Wellbeing patch boxes to Venetian The Holburne’s commitment skylines inspired by Canaletto, to the vital relationship between there’s a wealth of information art, creativity and wellbeing and creative inspiration. There Recently, participants have has never felt more important are now over 20 download- been learning how to re-create than it does now. In recognition able activity sheets ready to the intricate geometric patterns of this we have expanded our enjoy at home, and with over which decorate objects in our Creativity 4 Wellbeing offer. 100 people a week download- upcoming exhibition Precious Now anyone who finds playful ing these resources we know & Rare: Islamic Metalwork. creativity helps them to maintain they are being well used. We hope to have a Museum a sense of wellbeing and display of some of the connection is able to access One person has completed hexagonal boxes they created. our weekly downloadable every activity we’ve created activities and live ‘Zoom’ events. and now has a ‘lockdown Children and Families gallery’ of all the pieces she’s We are delighted to announce Wednesdays became made in her spare room! the appointment of Anna “a life saver for me and Visit www.holburne.org/ Highley, our new Learning & pulled me back from feeling learning/community- Engagement Assistant, who depressed and lonely. engagement/pathways-to- has been developing fun I am so grateful and I would wellbeing/activities/ where Saturday afternoon creative like to thank the Pathways we’ve created a virtual home events for children and team for the effort they for all these resources. families online. These offer put into organising the exhibition-related activities whole project. We have also continued to such as Venetian mask ” support our regular Pathways making, in the style of the Taking inspiration from our to Wellbeing participants Venice Carnival and Canaletto, collection and exhibitions, (originally signposted to our with free templates to we’ve invited a different artist groups through mental health download and inspiring to design and demonstrate a services and support demonstrations using simple creative activity each organisations). Usually our household materials. week. Ranging from 18th-century face-to-face weekly groups provide a much-needed safe, For a lovely, outdoor school non-judgmental space for over holiday activity we’re working 20 people to explore their with our friends at Sydney creativity. We know how difficult Gardens to create a Canaletto it has been for people already inspired family trail. These living with mental health will be available from outside issues and social isolation to the Holburne from Monday lose this contact so we have 12th April. provided regular contact,

postal art packs and a Louise Campion, supported online group. Learning and Engagement Lead WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US FUTURE EVENTS FOR ALL MUSEUM SUPPORTERS 11 Inspired by Canaletto: a Venetian-themed quiz

To celebrate the Canaletto: 7 What figures crown the two 19 What is a rio terrà? Painting Venice exhibition, columns in the Piazzetta? 20 Who was choirmaster to Sidney Blackmore (a former 8 What was the name of the the orphanage of La Pietà? Chairman of the Holburne British Consul to Venice Friends) has kindly compiled 21 What collapsed into a whose picture collection was this Venice-themed quiz, heap of rubble in July 1902? bought by George III? so get in a Venetian frame 22 Which architect designed of mind and enjoy! 9 What is the name of the San Giorgio Maggiore? NB, the answers are on page 13. international art exhibition held in Venice since 1875? 23 What work was inspired 1 What are the names of the by Titian’s painting The two famous cafes in Piazza 10 Who, whilst on his honey- Assumption of the Virgin in San Marco? moon, jumped from a balcony the Frari Basilica? into the Grand Canal? 2 Name the leading dynasty 24 Which Bath resident of Venetian painters during 11 What would one find on owned Giovanni Bellini’s the transition from Gothic Isola di San Michele? portrait of Doge Loredan? to Renaissance. 12 Who lived in Venice from 25 Who wrote the play Il 3 Who painted the Holburne’s 1949-79 and established a Servitor di Due Padroni (The capriccio of a Venetian coastal modern art collection? Servant of Two Masters)? scene? (detail shown below) 13 Which Venetian 26 Which campanile did artist spent the years Ruskin advise the visitor to 1746 -1755 in England? climb and survey ‘Far as the 14 How many bridges eye can reach, a waste of cross the Grand Canal? wild sea moor…’?

15 In which hotel did Von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann’s A rather dapper Death in Venice stay? gentleman in the Piazza San Marco, 4 Who described the Piazza 16 What is the name of from a postcard San Marco as ‘the finest Venice’s picture gallery? sent in 1909. The message on drawing room in Europe’? the back reads: 17 Who died on 13 February ‘This picture 5 Who was the towering 1883 in the Palazzo Loredan gives a better figure in Venetian art in the Vendramin Calergi (now view of the Great Portal of th- 18 century, whose work the Venice Casino)? San Marco, with included frescos? the beautiful 18 Where did St Mark’s mosaics in the 6 What happens on the four bronze horses a) come Tympanum. The pigeon seemed Feast of the Redentore? from, and b) spend the quite at home years 1797 -1815? on my hat’ 12 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US Canaletto: Painting Venice

This article was written by Monserrat Pis Marcos, Curator at the Holburne, for an online talk given at the London Art Fair in February. The Canaletto exhibition is a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to see a series of 23 stunning paintings that belong to the Duke of Bedford and are usually on display at Woburn Abbey, Born in Venice in 1697, his so the works were shipped to which is now being refurbished. nickname was probably England after John had adopted to distinguish him returned. This is one reason There are two key characters from his father, Bernardo why it is difficult to date the involved in this series; Antonio Canal, with whom he worked paintings or indeed establish Giovanni Canal (below left) as a scene painter for opera the completion date of the and Lord John Russell, the theatres in Venice and . set with absolute certainty. 4th Duke of Bedford (below He travelled little beyond right), who commissioned the Venice, except for a long Upon his return to England, paintings in the early 1730s. sojourn in England from John’s fortune changed The two met through one of 1746-1755. In spite of his fame radically. In October 1731 he Canaletto’s most important and reputation abroad, married the wealthy Lady patrons, the British Consul Canaletto ended his days Diana Spencer, and about a Joseph Smith, who lived in living in humble means. year after the marriage, he Venice and introduced became the 4th Duke of Canaletto’s work to countless John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford when his brother British aristocrats visiting Italy. Bedford, was born in 1710, and suddenly died in Spain. He was not expected to inherit went on to have a stellar Although today we know him the title, as he had three older career as a statesman, with a as one of the most admired brothers. Two of the brothers dizzying list of posts and painters of Venetian vistas, died in infancy and the third, honours, including First Lord Canaletto remains obscure in who inherited the Dukedom of the Admiralty and British terms of his personal life. aged 3, died young without Ambassador to France. issue. Between 1730 and 1731 Lord John Russell went to Italy At Woburn Abbey (above), on his ‘’, travelling the Canaletto series has been to Rome, Florence and Venice, traditionally hung on three where he commissioned levels, which renders close several works by Canaletto examination of the ones on as a souvenir of his travels. the two upper levels very These commissions often took difficult. The hang in Bath will several years to complete, present them all at eye level, WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US 13

Canaletto: Painting Venice continued providing a very rare chance and the sea by throwing a for visitors to enjoy and study gold ring into the water. This the paintings up close. magnificent painting has many fascinating details, such The exhibition is displayed as a crowd of people watching geographically, showing the events from the Campanile, length of the Grand Canal, and a mysterious masked approaching the Rialto Bridge figure in a gondola, who unlike from two sides, from San most of Canaletto’s figures, Marco, where many visitors turns to look directly at us. travelling by sea would have to show evidence of rises in Do come to the exhibition and seen Venice for the first time, sea levels in Venice. A detail see if you can find him! and from Santa Chiara. The of the Palazzo Erizzo Nani stretch of the Grand Canal Mocenigo in one painting from Santa Chiara has been (above), shows the white greatly altered since stone base covered by a belt Canaletto’s day. One of of green algae, which only the paintings in the series grows when there is sufficient shows an area that was sun and water. Algae indicates substantially filled in during rising sea levels and research the 19th century, and shows there has been an shows buildings such as increase of 60cm since the Answers to the Venetian quiz on p11 - the Palazzo Bembo which 18th century. Many buildings how many did you get right? no longer exist today. have also subsided. 1: Florian and Quadri 2: the Bellini family 3: (1712-93) 4: Napoleon 5: Giovanni Battista Whilst the paintings show Another advantage of the Tiepolo (1676-1770) 6: A pontoon of the magnificent series of new photographs is that we boats is created across the Giudecca architectural treasures lining can appreciate in detail Canal 7: Lions of St Mark’s and St the canal, such as fine palaces another interesting quirk of Theodore, first patron saint of Venice and churches, Canaletto also Canaletto: he has a tendency 8: Consul Joseph Smith 9: Biennale 10: John Cross, husband of writer includes closely-observed to paint people in yellow. The George Eliot 11: Venice’s cemetery scenes of everyday life, such further away they are in the 12: Peggy Guggenheim 13: Canaletto as men working on a roof, composition the yellower they 14: four - Academia, Rialto, Scalzi and a woman carrying water become, until they eventually Constituzione 15: Grand Hotel des from a well, travellers, trades- become yellow dots. Bains on the Lido 16: Galleria dell’Academia 17: Richard Wagner people and fishermen. 18: a) Constantinople, b) Ascension Day is the largest 19: Infilled canal 20: Antonio Vivaldi For the exhibition, we work that will go on display 21: St Mark’s Campanile commissioned high resolution in Bath. It depicts the most 22: Andrea Palladio photographs of the paintings, important festival in the 23: Lord Byron; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto enabling us to see them in Venetian calendar, where the 24: William John Bankes, of Kingston greater detail. One of the Doge would represent the Lacy 25: Carlo Goldoni, (written in 1746) advantages of this has been symbolic marriage of Venice 26: Torcello’s Cathedral 14 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US Holburne Insights: redisplaying the Plantation Day Book

We can view an exciting The redisplay has several redisplay of the Plantation key themes: Day Book thanks to work Remembrance Rehousing by Jill Sutherland (pictured the Plantation Day Book in below), a Curatorial Fellow its own case is a way of 2019-2021, and PhD student recovering the missing at Bath Spa University. The post historical narrative and has been generously funded context of the book. To by the Artisa Foundation. What makes our book symbolise the missing pages, particularly unusual is that names of the enslaved will the majority of its pages were be printed on the case plinth cut out (see photo above). alongside a poetic Epitaph Who, when and why remains by the Barbadian-Glaswegian a mystery! Only one page Turner Prize-winning artist, with legible content remains, Alberta Whittle, along with and itemises a delivery of contributions from Barbados candles, beef and cocoa. This Museum and Historical Society. The Plantation Day Book is a transactional treatment of little-known ledger in the people of colour during this Acceptance This research Museum’s collection. Dated period, against a backdrop of shows that the Holburne 1722, it comes from the consumption and luxury in family were connected to Williams Plantation in Britain, warrants long- the slave trade through Barbados and the cover is overdue acknowledgement naval links, marriages into inscribed with a host of and remembrance. aristocratic families, through names including 'Guy Ball'. the inheritance of titles, The Williams Plantation was At present, the book is on and through investments in taken over by the Ball family display in a drawer in the the slave trade. We can now in the 1720s. Sir William's Fletcher Gallery, a section of accept this with openness grandmother was Frances the Museum dedicated to and critical awareness. Ball and Guy Ball was her taste and elegance in father. The book has remained Georgian Bath. The drawer is Resistance People not only in the Holburne family archive. labelled ‘Sugar and Slavery’ objected to racial and contains only a brief discrimination during British Ledgers like this were used in summary of the production colonialism, but actively the British colonies to of sugar by enslaved Africans resisted it. Our display shows document imports and for European consumption. It some examples of black and exports for accounting is currently displayed with white individuals with links to purposes, and often included minimal significance to the Bath and who were enslaved people who were overall narrative of the activists or demonstrated born in their possession, gallery, and shown less care black agency in the 18th, 19th bought and sold, and who and attention than its and early 20th centuries. died on the plantation. neighbouring objects. Jill Sutherland WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US 15 Longford Castle, Saturday 4th September 2021

This magnificent house, just return to our programme of soon, meanwhile, if you are south of Salisbury, has visits and a real treat to look interested in joining us, please belonged to the same family forward to in early Autumn! let us know by emailing: for nearly 300 years. As a [email protected] private home (currently lived The visit will begin at 10.30am in by the 9th Earl of Radnor), and last around 2 hours, after Priority booking will be given its outstanding treasures, which there will be time for a to Exhibition Circle Members including one of the finest stroll in the formal garden. and Patrons initially and then collection of paintings in the The route does involve several by order of application. country, are not widely known. flights of stairs and only a very limited part is wheelchair Lastly, Sir Nicholas Penny, a There has been a long friendly. We would rely on the former director of the National association with the National nearby Radnor Arms for toilet Gallery, who oversaw the Gallery, to which some pictures facilities and refreshments. partnership with Longford have been sold, notably We anticipate hiring a coach (and who wrote the guide Holbein’s The Ambassadors in although independent book we’ll all be given) has 1890, and others are on loan. transport is also possible. very kindly agreed to join us, In 2012 a partnership was if possible, on or around 4th formed and now guided tours Our plan is to arrange lunch September, and will give us a to Longford are permitted via and to organise another visit fascinating insight into the the . We, nearby in the afternoon but all relationship between national however, have been granted will depend on the Covid-19 and private collections. If Covid one of the few times available regulations in place nearer the developments result in a clash for an independent group and time. Further details, including of timing, his talk will be hope this will mark a splendid ticket prices will be announced rescheduled for another date.

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Sunil Gupta (1953 - ) Untitled #7, 2008 From the series The New Pre-Raphaelites Courtesy the artist and Hales Gallery, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Vadehra Art Gallery © Sunil Gupta All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020

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