List of lectures to the Society

from 1994 onwards

1994

Patricia Jaffe.
Imagination’s Journey, drawings of George Romney.
Richard Wood
Peter de Wint.

1995

David Cross
George Romney, Patterns of Friendship.
Alex Kidson
Reynolds, Gainsborough and Romney.
Andrew White
Kendal and Lancaster in the 18th Century.
Saumarez Smith
Images of the artist. Romney and the 18th Century Portraits.

1996

Elizabeth Allen
George Romney.
Mary Burkett
Christopher Steel,
Philip Edwards
Images of Shakespeare in Romney’s Time
Alex Kidson
George Romney and Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Anatomy of a Rivalry.

1997

Aileen Ribeiro
Fashion in 18th Century Portraiture.
David Cross
Romney the Proto – Romantic.
Jane Wallis
Wright of Derby.
Martin Postle
Romney’s Grand Tour.

1998

Mary Burkett
West Cumbrian Artists.
Jacob Simon
The art of the picture frame, especial reference to Romney.

1999

Ivan Day
Dining with Romney.
Aileen Ribeiro
Muses and Mythology, women dressed a l‘antique in work of Romney and his contemporaries.

2000

Yvonne Romney Dixon
‘Those Delightful Regions of the Imagination’, Romney as a draughtsman.
Elizabeth Barker
Romney’s ‘candlelight’ subjects within the wider European traditions of this painting.
John Murdoch
The Drama of the Exhibition Experience based on the Summer Shows of the R.A. 1780 to 1837

2001

James Holloway.
Allan Ramsay.
Jessica Feather
Gavin Hamilton, Scottish history painter.
Sarah Symonds-Goubert
Flaxman, Romney and the sharing of Inspiration.
Duncan Thomson
Henry Raeburn.

2002

Alex Kidson
The genesis of the Romney Exhibition.
Professor David Hill
Turner in the North.
Prudence Bliss
Hogarth part 1, The Portraits.

2003

Catherine Parry Wingfield
Garrick and Shakespeare like twin stars shall shine.
David Alexander
George Romney and the print market.
Olivier Meslay
French Portrait Painters in Romney’s time.
Prudence Bliss
Hogarth Part 2, The Rakes Progress.

2004

Catherine Parry Wingfield
Three women portraitists in the 18th century
Jane King
The Foundling Hospital, children, art and music
Michael Phillips
William Blake and the Age of the Revolution
Alex Kidson
Progress of Romney Research since the Bicentenary.
Kevin Littlewood
Lancashire painters in the 18th century.
Hugh Belsey
Gainsborough’s early life.

2005

Hugh Belsey
Gainsborough in Bath.
David Coke
Vauxhall Gardens.
David Fraser
Wright of Derby
Catherine Parry Wingfield
The Grand Tour.
Gillian Forester
18th century Pastellists including Daniel Gardner.
David Cross
The Aesthetics of the 18th century.

2006

Stephen Loyd
Portraiture in Edinburgh in the 1790’s.
Prudence Bliss
Romney in Florence.
Hugh Belsey
Completed his series of three on Gainsborough.
Kate Retford
Romney and Marital Portraiture.
Kate Williams
Emma (Lady Hamilton)
David Coke
Making Faces.

2007

Ivan Day
Dining with Romney.
Philip Mould
Hidden Images, the art of Discovery.
Prudence Bliss
Romney and Venice.
Suzanne May
Sublime and Infernal Reveries, writing about Romney.
Alex Kidson
Old problems and fresh discoveries in writing a new Romney catalogue.
Philip Edwards
Romney to Wordsworth: the Spirit of the Age.
David Mannings
Reynolds in Italy: Sketch books and Caricatures.

2008

Prudence Bliss
Rome
Prudence Bliss
18th century watercolours
Viv Hendra
John Opie
Tim Wilcox
Francis Towne and John White Abbott
Peter Osborne
Thomas Bewick
David Cross
Romney, Wright and the Blue Devils
Stephen Hebron
on the Line of Beauty

2009

Alex Kidson
25 years of curating British art in Britain.
Gaye Blake Roberts
Wedgwood and his artists.
Catherine Parry Wingfield
the Prince Regent’s art collecting.
Clare Hornsby
Gavin Hamilton, Thomas Jenkins and Roman archaeology.
Peter Osborne
William Kent the artist and landscape architect.
Professor David Mannings
Sir Joshua Reynolds (2/3).
Susan Stuart
Gillow of Lancaster furniture and Romney’s frames made by Gillow.

2010

Alex Kidson
Zoffany
Peter Leach
House with a view in Eighteenth Century England.
Professor David Mannings
Sir Joshua Reynolds (3/3).
Charles Greig
Zoffany in India.
Ann Clements
England’s Leonardo: Stubbs and his horses.