The Romney Society

Romney Society Diary of Lectures & Visits

The Lecture Series: 2018
11.00 for 11.30 at the Crooklands hotel, Nr Kendal
please enter in your diaries... £8 on the door if not pre booked.

Friday 5 October 2018
Dr. Lucinda Lax, Senior Curator of 18th century collections in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery will speak on her recent authentication of a portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie - painted during ‘the '45’

Friday 9 November 2018
Stella Grace Lyons MA, accredited Art History lecturer for The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS), will speak on ‘How the Boydell Gallery made Shakespeare into the new inspiration for English painters’, one of whom was Romney

Friday 7 December 2018
Heather Carroll, tutor in the History of Art at Edinburgh University, will speak on ‘Romney's portrait of Jane, Duchess of Gordon’, the hated Tory rival to the Whig Duchess of Devonshire (see the film ‘Georgiana’ and the book by Amanda Foreman)

The Lecture Series: 2019
11.00 for 11.30 at the Crooklands hotel, Nr Kendal
please enter in your diaries... £8 on the door if not pre booked.

Friday 11 January 2019
Emily Knight, Assistant Curator of Paintings at the V&A Museum and candidate for an Oxford Ph.D. will speak on ‘Portraiture as Remembrance in 18th century Britain’. Special reference will be made to Romney's portrait of Mrs. Wilson of Abbot Hall, Kendal, and her daughter Sybill

Friday 8 February 2019
Rupert Nicol R.N., former lecturer at Greenwich Naval College and Events Officer at Garrick's Shakespeare Temple, will speak on ‘The German Romantic Painter Philip Otto Runge, 1777-1810’, from whose family Rupert descends. Runge was a friend of Goethe, of the painter Caspar David Friedrich, and also was a pioneer investigator of the colour circle

Friday 8 March 2019
Dr. Pieter van der Merwe, retired curator of the Royal Maritime Museums, Greenwich, lectured to us on marine painting in 2015 and in 2017 showed us around the recently refurbished Queen's House in Greenwich. He will speak on ‘18th century Naval Battles and Great Admirals’

Friday 5 April 2019
Peter Osborne BA, historian, Artist and Head of School at Blackburn College of Art, is a leading expert on the great wood engraver Thomas Bewick. Peter will speak on ‘Bewick's Beliefs and Vignettes’