After acclaim received in America in the Fall 2009, this jointly organized exhibition comes to the Soane along with Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship & The Order of Things, an extraordinary site-specific installation for the Breakfast Room of No.13 Lincoln's Inn Fields created by artist Jane Wildgoose to accompany and complement the exhibition. Mrs. Delany and Her Circle will explore the life, world and work of Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700 – 1788).
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Though best known for her almost one thousand botanical "paper mosaics" now housed in the British Museum, which she began at the age of 72, Mrs. Delany used her craft activities to cement bonds of friendship and negotiate complex, interlinked social networks throughout a long life passed in artistic, aristocratic, and court circles in Georgian England and Ireland.
Mrs. Delany and Her Circle has been co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane's Museum. Further details: www.soane.org
 WORLD OF INTERIORS – April 2010
“Building The Lily” – current Soane Museum exhibition review
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – 17 February 2010
“Art of Scissors and Paper” – current Soane Museum exhibition review of Mrs. Delany and Her Circle |
This spring, the Frick presents a special exhibition of loans from Dulwich Picture Gallery, one of the major collections of Old Master paintings in the world. Heralding the London museum’s bicentenary in 2011, the exhibition will introduce American audiences to this institution’s holdings and history through nine of its most important and best-loved works.
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Dulwich is the oldest public art gallery in England. The collection is housed in one of Sir John Soane’s architectural masterpieces, especially built for the paintings that once belonged to the French art dealer Noel Desenfans (1744–1807) and his Swiss associate, Sir Francis Bourgeois (1753–1811). Included are signature works that seldom travel, many of which have not been on view in the United States in recent years, and, in some cases, never in New York City. Featured are Anthony Van Dyck’s Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20; Nicolas Poussin’s Nurture of Jupiter, c. 1636–37; Rembrandt van Rijn’s Girl at a Window, 1645; Peter Lely’s Nymphs by a Fountain, c. 1650; Gerrit Dou’s Woman Playing a Clavichord, c. 1665; Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Flower Girl, c. 1665; Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Les Plaisirs du bal, c. 1717; Canaletto’s Old Walton Bridge, 1754; and Thomas Gainsborough’s Elizabeth and Mary Linley - The Linley Sisters, 1771–72. The works will be on view in the Oval Room and Garden Court of The Frick Collection.
The exhibition is co-organized by The Frick Collection and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York City: www.frick.org. For infomration on Dulwich: www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk |
Richard L. Feigen & Co. will present this loan exhibition dedicated to the first great British landscape artist, Richard Wilson (c.1713-1782). This will be the first exhibition to be devoted to the artist in North America in over 25 years. Although his life ended in poverty and neglect, Wilson was greatly admired by the next generation of British landscape artists, notably Constable and Turner, on whom he had an important formative influence. By the early 19th century, Wilson came to be called the “founder of the English school of landscape painting.” as he is still often described today.
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Richard L. Feigen & Co., 34 East 69th Street, New York City - check for opening times. www.rlfeigen.com |
Advanced paid reservations are required for all lecture and events
An annual celebration event and presentation this year of The Soane Foundation Honors to A. Eugene Kohn, Susan Weber and Yale University Press.
Please see page for full details and response form
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From the Comte d’Artois – the future Charles X of France – to the long widowhood of the Empress Eugenie, successive members of the French Royal and Imperial families have spent time in exile in Britain. From a run-down Scottish Castle to a sprawling half-timbered villa perched on a hill in Surrey, the buildings which they called home provide a fascinating reflection of the changing fortunes of the future or former sovereigns of France. Tim Knox will discuss the British residences of Charles X, Louis Philippe and Napoleon III, and their families, paying particular attention to the British sojourn of Louis XVIII, who arrived in England in 1807 and recovered his throne in 1814. Louis stayed at Gosfield Hall and Wanstead House in Essex, and made a number of visits to Stowe in Buckinghamshire. It is, however, Hartwell House – recently given to the National Trust - that is the English house most closely associated with the deposed French sovereign, as it was home to the King and his considerable entourage from April 1809, until his return to France in 1814. This strange and varied selection of buildings, most of which survive, are as much a part of the heritage of France as they are of Great Britain.
TICKETS: WAIT LIST ONLY - $35 members; $45 non-members (both Royal Oak and Soane Foundation are sold out)
LOCATION: Upper east side, confirmed if cleared from wait list - Formal Business Attire required, no cell phones
A joint program of the Royal Oak Foundation with the Soane Foundation. |
Explore Palladio’s enduring transatlantic legacy in this illustrated lecture with Charles Hind, H.J. Heinz Curator of Drawings, RIBA British Architectural Library, and Calder Loth, Senior Architectural Historian, Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Hind begins by tracing the journey of Palladio’s drawings from Italy to England and the significant impact these drawings had on British architecture. Loth will then examine how Palladianism shaped the American architectural image beginning in the colonial period, through the works of Thomas Jefferson, and into the monumental architecture of the twentieth century. |
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TICKETS: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for members of the Morgan and Soane Foundation.
For more information and to purchase tickets go to www.themorgan.org or call 212-685-0008 ext. 560 to charge your order.
LOCATION: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue (between East 36th and 37th Streets)
A program of the Morgan Library & Museum with co-sponsorship by the Soane Foundation
For other Pallladio related programs, please see this PDF file for details. |
- Reception precedes at 6pm with cash bar; book signing follows Lecture; there is an optional dinner.
- Reception and book signing follows
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Romantic, turreted, ancient, Madresfield Court, with its 160 rooms, spectacular Tudor hall and medieval moat, has been the home of the Lygon family for over 900 years. The Lygons have played their part in history. They were the inspiration and model for the doomed Marchmain family in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: Waugh was a regular visitor in the 1930s, one in a long line of writers, composers, painters, royals and rebels who passed through Madresfield’s doors. Simon Jenkins also rated Madresfield among the 50 best in his book on England’s 1000 Best Houses. In this lecture, which celebrates the publication of her Madresfield: The Real Brideshead (Doubleday), Jane Mulvagh will speak about her experiences of accessing this very special and private house, and the treasures and secrets she explored. Drawing on a unique and virtually unknown archive, she will illuminate a rich and dramatic history, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot, to the scandal of William Lygon, the disgraced seventh Earl Beauchamp.
lecture only $20 members and non-members, lecture and dinner $70 (non-refundable)
Please reserve tickets directly with the Royal Oak: www.royal-oak.org or Robert Dennis, tel. 212-480-2889 ext 201
The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire required
$30 members; $40 non-members
Please reserve tickets directly with the Royal Oak: www.royal-oak.org or Robert Dennis, tel. 212-480-2889 ext 201
: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Street)
A program of the Royal Oak Foundation with co-sponsorship by the Soane Foundation; Library Committee, The Union League of Philadelphia; The American Friends of Attingham Summer School - Delaware Valley Chapter,; Inst. of Classical Architecture & Classical America - Philadelphia Chapter; The Decorative Arts Trust; The English-Speaking Union - Philadelphia Chapter.
JAQUELIN T. ROBERTSON, FAIA, FAICP of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, has devoted a long and distinguished career to architecture, urban design, education and public service; to retaining "human and local values" in both the design of the city and in regional architecture. His avid engagement with the ideas and issues of his time ranges from his early roles in the Lindsay Administration - founder of the New York City Urban Design Group, first Director of The Office of Midtown Planning and Development, a New York City Planning Commissioner - to his eight years as Dean of the School of Architecture and Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia.
Robertson's abiding interest in Palladio started in Virginia, many of whose best buildings are Georgian Palladian. This early exposure was strengthened over the years by a growing interest in Thomas Jefferson and his works - Monticello, The Academical Village at the University of Virginia, Popular Forrest and various small villas and additions. Moreover, Robertson grew up in one of William L. Bottomley's best Georgian Palladian houses; that is Palladio was "in the air" from the start.
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Jefferson famously referred to Palladio as "the Bible"; a view clearly held by Robertson who proclaims flatly, "Palladio if not the best is surely the most influential Western architect. He discovered Rome and Greece and set out the "rules of play" for those who came after - in a way that changed the course of architecture in both Europe and America.
Tickets and reservations are free for Patron’s, Supporter’s and Friend’s of the Soane.
Please inquire to rsvp@sirjohnsoanesmuseumfoundation.com | T. 212-223-2012
“Discover Palladio” , New York Times Style Magazine 03-28-10 |
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Fast living surrounded by bright young things; that’s the image we have today of the Interwar Years, between 1918 and 1939, when fast cars, fast women, lots of alcohol, and an abundance of glamour and glitter was the order of the day for England’s upper classes. This lecture will go back hundreds of years, beginning in the 17th century, when the turf ruled the aristocratic taste for racing and horses were de rigueur for gentry and upper class. From Goodwood House in Sussex, home of the Glorious Goodwood festival (Thoroughbred horse racing), one of the highlights of the English social season, to Higham Park in Kent, one of the first centers of auto racing in the early 20th century, this lecture will cover horse, auto, and airplane racing at Engl ish country houses. From the Rothschilds to James Bond’s ancestry and car, from the finest stables in the world to the Flying Duchess.
$25 members, $35 non-members
Please reserve tickets directly with the Royal Oak: www.royal-oak.org or Robert Dennis, tel. 212-480-2889 ext 201
UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East
$30 members, $40 non-members; SF Dinner reservations 415-362-9985 by 3/5.
Please reserve tickets directly with the Royal Oak: www.royal-oak.org or Robert Dennis, tel. 212-480-2889 ext 201
Metropolitan Club, 640 Sutter Street - Formal Business Attire required, no cell phones
A program of the Royal Oak Foundation with co-sponsorship by the Soane Foundation; The English-Speaking Union San Francisco Chapter; National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA; The Decorative Arts and Design Council of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The American Friends of the Attingham Summer School. |
This exhibition will explore the life, world and work of Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700 – 1788). Though best known for her almost one thousand botanical "paper mosaics" now housed in the British Museum, which she began at the age of 72, Mrs. Delany used her craft activities to cement bonds of friendship and negotiate complex, interlinked social networks throughout a long life passed in artistic, aristocratic, and court circles in Georgian England and Ireland. Mrs. Delany and Her Circle has been co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane's Museum.
Information: www.ycba.yale.edu |
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LOCATION: Exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, 1000 Chapel Street, New Haven (corner of York Street)
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