Teme Valley Arts Society presents…

National Gallery 200 Years: The Nation’s Mantlepiece

Jonathan Conlin

Founded in 1824, the National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square houses one of the world’s finest collections of European paintings. In contrast to its peers, however, this institution did not begin its life as a royal collection: the Gallery was founded by parliament and remains reliant on public funding. This lecture uses highlights from the NG’s collection to show how our vision of the “ideal” art collection has evolved over time.

Dr Jonathan Conlin is a cultural historian of modern Britain and Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton. His books include “Tales of Two Cities” (2014), a comparative history of Paris and London, and biographies of Adam Smith and the Anglo-Armenian oil baron Calouste Gulbenkian. Born in New York, he studied History and Modern Languages at Oxford, subsequently moving to the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge for his MA and PhD. approach different kinds of evidence, the gaps and dead-ends as well as the surprise discoveries.

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