Spanish Painting at the Wallace Collection
Today is the last day of Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company!
Forgotten Masters presents an extraordinary opportunity to see masterpieces of Indian painting, brought together for the first time in the UK. Shedding light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history, and reflecting both the beauty of the natural world and the social reality of the time.⠀
You can now relive the vivid detail and masterful artistry of the show online. Explore the show’s themes and artworks with our exhibition introduction film, led by curator William Dalrymple and Wallace Collection director Dr Xavier Bray, and our room-by-room digital tour, via our website.
Discover Forgotten Masters online today: https://bit.ly/3ip2wgp
Forgotten Masters is now open! In this introduction, hear from the Wallace Collection’s director Dr Xavier Bray and exhibition curator William Dalrymple, as they explore some of the iconic pieces and beautiful works of art on display in the show.
Open for just 6 weeks, don’t miss your chance to see these masterpieces of Indian painting, as they shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history.
Limited number of tickets available, book now to avoid disappointment.
https://www.wallacecollection.org/forgotten-masters-indian-painting-east-india-company/
Exhibition closes 13 September 2020.
In partnership with DAG.
With thanks to Imagineear for the audio production – the full and original version was an audioguide to the exhibition.
We’re excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for the reopening of Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company!
Curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, Forgotten Masters presents an extraordinary opportunity to see vivid and highly original works commissioned by East India Company officials in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Open from 29 July 2020 for just 6 weeks, don’t miss your chance to explore these masterpieces of Indian painting, as they shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history.
In order to maintain social distancing, a very limited number of daily tickets will be available, so please book early to avoid disappointment. Book your tickets today: https://bit.ly/30EjKPf
Exhibition closes 13 September 2020. Members enjoy unlimited access to all our exhibitions, but pre-booking is essential at this time.
In partnership with DAG.
The Wallace Collection's Arms and Armour Curator, Tobias Capwell introduces these two elegant and sumptuously decorated flint-lock pistols made for King Louis XIV of France.
Their precise provenance is unknown, it has been suggested that the pistols might have been made in celebration of the capture of Dunkirk in 1658. Alternatively, they might have formed part of a gift from the city of Lille to mark and celebrate the annexation of that city by French forces in the 1667-8 Spanish Netherlands campaign.
The quality and craftsmanship are of the highest order: the stocks are of carved walnut stained dark, while the gun barrels are engraved, blued and overlaid in gold. As was often the case with guns intended for royalty, they do not bear the name of their maker.
Film by Jamie Isbell, music by Oscar Webster Bell.
#WallacefromHome
Today’s #MuseumWeek theme is #technologyMW. Digital technology can transform the ways in which we see and understand historic objects. The Wallace Collection has pioneered using SketchUp to document important pieces of furniture as digital models and is in the process of publishing them using the web platform, Sketchfab. Such technology allows us to explore the objects in three-dimensional space and discover the complexity of their construction.
This model is of a chest of drawers made by French cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener for Marie-Antoinette’s use at the Château de Marly in 1782. The meticulous digital recreation of Riesener’s chest of drawers gives us a remarkable insight into his craftsmanship and practice, with this model showing the deconstruction of the object into approximately 530 pieces. Who would have believed that a chest of drawers is so complicated!
Find out more about Riesener in our blog: https://bit.ly/2Zajoke
The Great Gallery is in many ways the heart of the Wallace Collection; it was intended by Sir Richard Wallace as the culmination of a visit to Hertford House. The major refurbishment of 2014 gave us a rare opportunity to think afresh about the arrangement of the paintings, which were to hang on beautiful new silk and utilise new lighting.
For today’s MuseumWeek theme of #MuseumMomentsMW, we wanted to share this time-lapse of the rehang of one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the world, a truly defining moment for the Wallace Collection.
#TheGreatGallery #OldMasters #Painting #TheWallaceCollection
Iconic Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, died #onthisday 1768.
In this film, relive the restoration of two of Canaletto's most magnificent paintings in the Collection. Depicting the Bacino di San Marco, Venice’s inner harbour of Saint Mark’s, both pieces were restored as part of a 2017 conservation project at the Hamilton Kerr Institute at the University of Cambridge.
The restoration was funded by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, as part of the company’s global Art Conservation Project.
Find out more about these two incredible works here: https://bit.ly/3eAfxC4
The Wallace Collection’s Great Gallery is one of the finest rooms of European painting found anywhere in the world. Displaying an outstanding array of masterpieces, including works by Rubens, Velázquez, Poussin, and van Dyck, it is an inspiring celebration of colour, canvas and masterful artistry.
With the Great Gallery as its setting, we wanted to share this emotive piece by cellist Ariana Kashefi and pianist Maksim Stsura, as they perform Claude Debussy's ‘Cello Sonata, i Prologue’. Recorded live in July 2019 as part of City Music Foundation’s Annual Summer Residency.
#ThrowbackThursday
“I do believe that art is a mirror on life and that it gives us the depth of understanding how other people lived and I have been inspired by it my whole career.”
#Throwback to our 2009 interview with iconic British designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, as she talks about the art and artists of the Wallace Collection and how they have influenced and inspired her.
Has there been a particular work from the Collection that has inspired you? We’d love to hear from you in the comments below.
#ThrowbackThursday
Whether we’ve been sitting or lounging or dozing or dreaming, all of us have become a little more familiar with our own furniture lately.
For today’s #FurnitureFriday, we wanted to share this film of one of our own treasured pieces in the Collection, conserved by a wonderful team a few years ago. This elegant armchair is one of only a small number of English pieces of furniture in the Collection. Designed by #WilliamKent in the 18th century, the chair shows off the bold, sculptural forms employed by much of Kent's furniture and was greatly inspired by his trips to Italy.
#WFH #WallaceFromHome #MuseumfromHome
“Some of the greatest natural history artworks of all time.” ★★★★★ - The Guardian
“A dizzying range of exquisite paintings.” - BBC Culture
Curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, #ForgottenMasters presents an extraordinary opportunity to see vivid and highly original works commissioned by East India Company officials in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A UK first, don’t miss your chance to explore these masterpieces of Indian painting, as they shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history.
Open now. Book your tickets here: https://bit.ly/2P9WIL2
Members go free!
In 2019, the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica generously funded the cleaning, restoration and technical analysis of the Wallace Collection's painting, Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School by the Studio of Velázquez.
Explore the full process of the treatment here: https://bit.ly/2HxYPnR
Join our Director, Dr Xavier Bray, as he discusses the Wallace Collection’s masterpiece by Titian, Perseus and Andromeda. The work will be heading to the National Gallery for their forthcoming exhibition Titian: Love, Desire, Death, bringing together Titian’s magnificent ‘poesie’ for the first time since the late 16th century.
Find out more here: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/titian-love-desire-death/facebook-live
One of the most celebrated French furniture makers of all time, Jean-Henri Riesener, died #onthisday in 1806.
Riesener is famous for making roll-top desks. This desk in the Wallace Collection has been digitally recreated to illustrate the complexity of its construction. The intricate design combines a roll top, which conceals drawers, shelves and a writing surface, and three lower drawers. Their contents would have been protected by the ingenious locking mechanism hidden within the desk.
Find out more about the technical brilliance of Riesener’s furniture on our blog here: https://www.wallacecollection.org/blog/riesener-project/
★★★★★ “Gorgeous and enlightening” – The Guardian
★★★★ “A delightful menagerie of charismatic creatures” - Telegraph
★★★★ – Time Out
★★★★ – Londonist
Have you had a chance to see #ForgottenMasters yet?
Curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, this is the first UK exhibition of works by Indian master painters commissioned by East India Company officials in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Open now. Members go free!
Book your tickets here: bit.ly/2LnfA7h
This chest-of-drawers was made by one of the greatest French cabinetmakers of the eighteenth century, Jean-Henri Riesener. ⠀
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It has been modelled in meticulous detail using an interactive digital platform, allowing us to explore the object in over 500 pieces. This is a new and exciting approach to furniture history which has been developed by a Riesener research project taking place at The Wallace Collection, Royal Collection Trust and Waddesdon Manor.⠀
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You can find the model here, on the Riesener Project blog: https://www.wallacecollection.org/blog/riesener-project/
#FurnitureFriday
★★★★★ “Gorgeous and enlightening” – The Guardian ⠀
★★★★ “A delightful menagerie of charismatic creatures” - Telegraph ⠀
★★★★ – Time Out ⠀
★★★★ – Londonist⠀
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OPEN NOW - #ForgottenMasters: Indian Painting for the East India Company.⠀
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Curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, this is the first UK exhibition of works by Indian master painters commissioned by East India Company officials in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.⠀
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The exhibition represents an unprecedented opportunity to see these vivid and highly original paintings together for the first time, recognising them as among the greatest masterpieces of Indian painting.⠀
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Book your tickets here: https://bit.ly/2LnfA7h
Next week, the Wallace Collection opens #ForgottenMasters, the first UK exhibition of works by Indian master painters commissioned by East India Company officials in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Curated by renowned writer and historian, William Dalrymple.
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company opens on 4 December 2019, until 19 April 2020.
Book your tickets now: https://bit.ly/2MXlQ7d
There is less than a week left to see the award winning exhibition, An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahník at the Wallace Collection.
Marvel at a personally selected edit of shoe designs from Blahník’s private archives, set amongst the masterpieces of the Wallace Collection.
Until 27 October 2019. Free admission, no booking required. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2Zn8DLG
Exhibition in partnership between Manolo Blahník and the Wallace Collection.
If you could save #OneArtwork from destruction, what would it be?
Ahead of this week’s release of Warner Bros. Pictures' #TheGoldfinch, Sotheby's asked the film’s cast and the Wallace Collection’s director, Xavier Bray, that exact question. Watch the full video to find out what they chose…
Have you seen An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahník at the Wallace Collection?
Marvel at a personally selected edit of shoe designs from Blahník’s private archives, set amongst the masterpieces of the Wallace Collection.
Now entering its final month, on until 27 October 2019. Free admission, no booking required.
Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2Zn8DLG
Exhibition in partnership between Manolo Blahník and the Wallace Collection.
King #LouisXIV of France was born #onthisday 1638.
During his long reign, Louis XIV was a steadfast patron of the arts. His influence had a profound effect on art at the time; many works, from furniture to paintings, can be found in the Wallace Collection today.
Find out more here: https://www.wallacecollection.org/collection/
Joanna Hogg's new film, The Souvenir, is a wonderful tribute to Fragonard’s continuing influence in our world today.
By donating to #FixingFrago, a research and conservation project around our 8 Fragonard paintings, you will ensure that future generations continue to enjoy his work.
www.justgiving.com/campaign/fixingfrago
#thesouvenir #curzon #artificialeye #fragonard #fragomania #eighteenthcenturyfrenchpainting #wallacecollection #paintingconservation #joannahogg #frenchpainting #thewallacecollection #conservation
In our current exhibition learn how Manolo Blahnik's iconic shoe designs have been inspired by the Masterpieces of the Wallace Collection. Open daily with free admission! #WallaceCollectionxManoloBlahnik #AnEnquiringMind
On this day 1653 the Battle of Scheveningen took place - the final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War. This painting by Willem van de Velde the Younger depicts the Dutch fireship, the Fortuin (Fortune) about to ram the Andrew, commanded by the English Rear-Admiral, Thomas Graves. #OTD
Be taken on a journey through the works that inspired Manolo Blahnik's enquiring mind...
#AnEnquiringMind
#WallaceCollectionxManoloBlahnik
Until 1 September 2019.
Our #FREE #ManoloBlahnik exhibition 'An Enquiring Mind' is open until 1 September 2019 - a perfect partnership of art and fashion! #AnEnquiringMind #WallaceCollectionxManoloBlahnik
'An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection’ - now open and free to visit! #WallaceCollectionxManoloBlahnik #AnEnquiringMind