Canaletto, 1697–1768, Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames, 1747,
Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1976.7.94.
See our February Talk - Eighteenth Century England Through The Eyes of Canaletto
PROGRAMME oF TALKS
Our Talks are held in the Fittleworth Village Hall at 2:00pm on the 1st Tuesday of each month. Visitors are welcome to join our talks for £10 per visit.
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Detail from The Wedding Feast at Cana, Paolo Veronese, 1563. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Image adjusted and cropped. Public domain.
TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2026
SUMPTUOUS VERONESE: THE DEPICTION OF LUXURY GOODS IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY VENICE
CHANTAL BROTHERTON-RATCLIFFE
Claude Monet, Road to the Village of Vétheuil, Snow Effect, 1879.
Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida. Public domain.
Canaletto, 1697–1768, Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames, 1747,
Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1976.7.94.
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6 APRIL 2027
BESTRIDING THE WORLD LIKE A COLOSSUS:
THE LIFE AND WORK OF JOSEPH PAXTON 1803 - 1865
JAMES BOLTON
10 OCTOBER 2027
PILGRIMAGE AND SPECTACLE:
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
ON THE ROAD
TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
IAN COCKBURN
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The End of the Song, Edmund Blair Leighton, 1902, oil on canvas, private collection.
Christmas adaptation of a public-domain image from Wikimedia Commons.