From the Rococo to the Enlightenment, discover the art of Watteau, Hogarth and Vigée Le Brun with Dr Richard Stemp. Wednesday, 20 April 2022 - Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 5.30 - 7.30 pm. Available online only.
Two of the most iconic examples of British portraiture are currently on public view at the National Gallery in London the newly-acquired Sir Thomas Lawrence portrait known as The Red Boy joins The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainborough's masterpiece which is on loan through this spring from the Huntington Museum in California. One hundred years after wealthy American Henry E. Huntington purchased Gainsborough’s masterpiece, The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) from the Duke of Westminster, and it set .