The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860
A brilliant and stimulating long view of Romantic art.
Small Stories: At Home in a Dolls’ House
The innocent and short childhood world captured through toys, stories and voices.
Remembering Radcliffe: 300 Years of Science and Philanthropy
A scholarly exhibition that provided a fitting commemoration of this remarkable person.
Canaletto: Celebrating Britain
A travelling exhibition setting out to explore Canaletto’s activity in England from a different viewpoint.
Bonaparte and the British: prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon
An amusing and reflective exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions
Wellington emerges as a flawed but still admirable national hero.
William Blake: Apprentice & Master
A small exhibition on William Blake that includes a recreation of his studio in Lambeth.
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain
An exceptional examination of art's relationship with slavery.
Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire
There is nothing like the old black, as this exhibit at the Met demonstrates.
‘Georgians: Dress for Polite Society’ and ‘Portrait of a Lady? Ruin and Reputation in the Georgian Era’
Two exhibitions in Bath, representing very different approaches to interpreting the eighteenth century.