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Romney Society Lectures: October 2016 - April 2017

11/7/2016

 
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

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