Dates and further details of the Romney Society Lectures for October 2016 to April 2017:
October 21st : Tom Edwards, Director of Abbott & Holder Ltd:
The discovery of Richard Cooper Jnr, The Scottish engraver and drawing master who was in Rome when Romney was there. They shared friends and acquaintances..
November 4th : Loyd Grossman:
Benjamin West, the death of Wolfe and the struggle to be modern.
December 3rd : Mungo Campbell:
William Hunter, the pioneer surgeon, collector and founder of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
January 13th : Amy Concannon:
Turner's first years: the youthful prodigy, ARA by 1799 , aged 24.
February 3rd : Quintin Colville:
Speaks on his exhibition now in Greenwich: "Seduction and Celebrity: the spectacular life of Emma Hamilton".
March 3rd : Professor John Wilton-Ely:
Piranesi and the Grandeur of Rome
April 7th : Alex Kidson:
Romney and his Female Models
Crooklands Hotel Near Kendal 11.30am Guests welcome
The discovery of Richard Cooper Jnr, The Scottish engraver and drawing master who was in Rome when Romney was there. They shared friends and acquaintances..
November 4th : Loyd Grossman:
Benjamin West, the death of Wolfe and the struggle to be modern.
December 3rd : Mungo Campbell:
William Hunter, the pioneer surgeon, collector and founder of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
January 13th : Amy Concannon:
Turner's first years: the youthful prodigy, ARA by 1799 , aged 24.
February 3rd : Quintin Colville:
Speaks on his exhibition now in Greenwich: "Seduction and Celebrity: the spectacular life of Emma Hamilton".
March 3rd : Professor John Wilton-Ely:
Piranesi and the Grandeur of Rome
April 7th : Alex Kidson:
Romney and his Female Models
Crooklands Hotel Near Kendal 11.30am Guests welcome