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Free art classes and workshops, talks and tours, bring alive to visitors the varied works of art contained in the 25 galleries of the Wallace Collection, on display in Hertford House - an historic London town house and the original family home of The Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace. Deemed "the greatest art school in this country" by Vivienne Westwood, the collection is full of European paintings, miniatures and sculpture, French 18th century furniture, Sevres and Meissen porcelain, goldsmiths' work and Oriental and European arms and armour. It's one of the finest collections of art amassed by one family. Sir Richard Wallace - the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess of Hertford - built up the original collection left to him by his father. Several Old Master paintings, notably 'The Laughing Cavalier', works by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Rubens, Gainsborough, Titian and Romney make this gallery a worthy rival of others in the city. Renovations to the town house, which uniquely occupies the whole side of a garden square, include four galleries, educational facilities and a stunning glass-roofed courtyard - home to Oliver Peyton's brasserie The Wallace. The acquisitions, bequeathed to the nation by Wallace's widow in 1897, are all free to view.
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Wallace Collection events
event > Exhibitions > Lifestyle - Talks & Lectures | PRICING Free
DATES Monday 26th January 2015 - 5.30pm-7pm
Curatorial Assistant Carmen Holdsworth-Delgado discusses art collecting.
event > Exhibitions > Lifestyle - Talks & Lectures | PRICING Free
DATES Tuesday 27th January 2015 - 1pm-2pm
Christoph Vogtherr, The Wallace Collection's Director discusses the artist's painting.
event > Exhibitions > Lifestyle - Talks & Lectures | PRICING Free
DATES Wednesday 28th January 2015 - 1pm-1.20pm
Gallery Assistant Peter Elia discusses the artist's painting.
event > Exhibitions > Lifestyle - Talks & Lectures | PRICING Free
DATES Thursday 29th January 2015 - 1pm-2pm
Dr Helen Jacobsen discusses why the French imitated Chinese artistic styles.
event > Exhibitions > Lifestyle - Talks & Lectures | PRICING Free
DATES Friday 30th January 2015 - 1pm-2pm
The museum's conservators discuss timepieces.
event > Leisure | PRICING Free
DATES Friday 6th February 2015 - 6pm-9.30pm
Meet friends and enjoy this unique gallery after dark during these specially curated evenings.
event > Leisure | PRICING Free
DATES Friday 6th March 2015 - 6pm-9.30pm
Take a look around the galleries after dark.
Joshua Reynolds: Experiments In PaintJoshua Reynolds: Experiments In PaintThe culmination of a four-year research project into the collection of Reynolds paintings at the Wallace Collection, Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint goes behind the surface to reveal the artist's unconventional manipulation of pigments, oils, glazes and varnishes. The display of 20 paintings - five from the Wallace Collection and three on l12th March 2015Sunday 7th June 2015
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event > Exhibitions > Art exhibitions - Painting | PRICING Free
DATES 12th March to 7th June 2015
The culmination of a four-year research project into the collection of Reynolds paintings at the Wallace Collection, Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint goes behind the surface to reveal the artist's unconventional manipulation of pigments, oils, glazes and varnishes. The display of 20 paintings - five from the Wallace Collection and three on l... More about this event
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London > Attractions > Art Galleries
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London > Shopping > Menswear
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Durrants Hotel, George Street, Marylebone, London W1H | 1 minute from Wallace Collection
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19 Wigmore Street, W1U | 5 minutes from Wallace Collection
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