Visits in 2020
I am sorry to say that all planned trips have had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus. This website will be updated when the status changes.
22nd March 2020 - Saatchi Gallery - Tutankhamun -Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
The largest number of King Tutankhamun treasures ever to leave Egypt will be in London for an exhibition which organisers say will never happen again. It will have 150 original artefacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb, 60 of which have never left Egypt before. The objects will include a gold inlaid miniature coffin which contained the king’s liver after it was removed during the mummification process, a gilded wooden bed with carved lion feet probably made specially for Tutankhamun’s funeral and a gilded wooden shrine showing intimate scenes of royal domestic harmony. One of two life-sized guardian statues of the king, which flanked the sealed entrance to his burial chamber, will also be among the artefacts leaving Cairo for the first time.
19th April
Compton Verney:
Compton Verney was opened to the public in 2004 and has themed collections of Chinese Art, paintings from 'Golden Age' of Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800, Northern European Art from 1450 to 1650, British Folk art and British Portraits. During our visit there will also be a special exhibition on Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553), one of the most successful German artists of all time.
Other works on display include items by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir William Beechey, and Canaletto. Subjects include portraits of Elizabeth 1st, Edward VI, Henry VIII and Horatio Nelson.
17th May
Leicester Gallery: Victorian art, Arts and Crafts, Picasso Ceramics, German Expressionism & Cathedral: to see interior and tomb of Richard III. For a flyer click here.
21st June
Wilton House: 1540’s house with 17th c. interiors and works by van Dyck, Pieter Brueghel and Rembrandt van Rijn
12th July
Althorp House – home of the Spencer family with works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Gainsborough
August 16th
Highclere: home of Downton Abbey, Earl of Carnarvon’s Egyptian antiquities and a large painting collection including Van Dyck and Dutch paintings from the 17th Century
September 6th to 9th
Holiday to Shropshire. Our holiday this year will be to Shropshire staying at the Mercure Shrewsbury Albrighton Hall Hotel and visiting the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Shrewsbury town centre including the Abbey, Powis Castle, Attingham Park and Wightwick Manor. See here for a flyer and booking form.
October 11th
Burghley House: The collection of Italian Old Master paintings is one of the finest in private hands together with Oriental and European ceramics
22nd March 2020 - Saatchi Gallery - Tutankhamun -Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
The largest number of King Tutankhamun treasures ever to leave Egypt will be in London for an exhibition which organisers say will never happen again. It will have 150 original artefacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb, 60 of which have never left Egypt before. The objects will include a gold inlaid miniature coffin which contained the king’s liver after it was removed during the mummification process, a gilded wooden bed with carved lion feet probably made specially for Tutankhamun’s funeral and a gilded wooden shrine showing intimate scenes of royal domestic harmony. One of two life-sized guardian statues of the king, which flanked the sealed entrance to his burial chamber, will also be among the artefacts leaving Cairo for the first time.
19th April
Compton Verney:
Compton Verney was opened to the public in 2004 and has themed collections of Chinese Art, paintings from 'Golden Age' of Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800, Northern European Art from 1450 to 1650, British Folk art and British Portraits. During our visit there will also be a special exhibition on Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553), one of the most successful German artists of all time.
Other works on display include items by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir William Beechey, and Canaletto. Subjects include portraits of Elizabeth 1st, Edward VI, Henry VIII and Horatio Nelson.
17th May
Leicester Gallery: Victorian art, Arts and Crafts, Picasso Ceramics, German Expressionism & Cathedral: to see interior and tomb of Richard III. For a flyer click here.
21st June
Wilton House: 1540’s house with 17th c. interiors and works by van Dyck, Pieter Brueghel and Rembrandt van Rijn
12th July
Althorp House – home of the Spencer family with works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Gainsborough
August 16th
Highclere: home of Downton Abbey, Earl of Carnarvon’s Egyptian antiquities and a large painting collection including Van Dyck and Dutch paintings from the 17th Century
September 6th to 9th
Holiday to Shropshire. Our holiday this year will be to Shropshire staying at the Mercure Shrewsbury Albrighton Hall Hotel and visiting the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Shrewsbury town centre including the Abbey, Powis Castle, Attingham Park and Wightwick Manor. See here for a flyer and booking form.
October 11th
Burghley House: The collection of Italian Old Master paintings is one of the finest in private hands together with Oriental and European ceramics
