The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead
A small and stimulating exhibition brings together science and art in the personality of this polymath physician.
Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century Britain
An impressive reflection on the mutual influence of portraiture and literary fame in the eighteenth century.
Als die Royals aus Hannover kamen | The Hanoverians on Britain’s Throne 1714-1837
It’s not just the British who are marking the tercentenary of the Personal Union.
Tiepolo Caricatures from the Robert Lehman Collection
The Tiepolo duo conquer a small corner of the Met with their charming cartoons.
Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude
An impressive exhibition that brings to life the sociability of science in the eighteenth century.
The Art and Science of Exploration, 1768-80
An understated new display that shows eighteenth-century British exploration as digested by the pencils and paintbrushes of its contemporaries.
Making Colour
The National Gallery explores the history of colour.
Peace Breaks Out! London and Paris in the Summer of 1814
The Soane Museum ensures that one of the more easily overlooked anniversaries in 2014 doesn’t pass forgotten.
By George! Handel’s Music for Royal Occasions | She Was Despiséd: Handel and Susannah Cibber
Two exhibitions, two complementary perspectives on the composer who, for many, provided the soundtrack to the early Georgian period.
Pietro Bellotti. Un altro Canaletto / Another Canaletto
This survey exhibition brought an eighteenth-century Venetian painter out of the shadows of his more famous relative.