CALENDAR

Upcoming talks, visits and trips are shown below in date order.

Gallery Talks groups meet for one morning per month following the art history course, one gallery at a time. Each Gallery Talk is designed to be coherent in itself, so can also be selected individually.

Click here for the schedule of Gallery Talks fees.

Please click here if you would like to book any of the talks, visits or trips listed below, or be added to a Waiting List.

If you have any other questions please contact me.


Tuesday 1 July

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)

Italian Renaissance (NG02)

10:30am -12:30pm

15th century artists such as Piero della Francesca, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci.

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Friday 4 July

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)

Italian Renaissance (NG02)

10:30am -12:30pm

15th century artists such as Piero della Francesca, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci.

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Thursday 10 July

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE (map)

Contemporary (NPG10)

11:00am - 1:00pm

20th & 21st century artists such as David Hockney, Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin and Sam Taylor-Wood.

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Friday 11 July

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE (map)

Contemporary (NPG10)

11:00am - 1:00pm

20th & 21st century artists such as David Hockney, Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin and Sam Taylor-Wood.

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Thursday 17 July

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Gallery Road, Dulwich, London, SE21 7AD (map)

British Portraiture (DP04)

10:30am - 12:30pm

17th & 18th century artists such as William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Peter Lely and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

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Friday 18 July

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Gallery Road, Dulwich, London, SE21 7AD (map)

British Portraiture (DP04)

10:30am - 12:30pm

17th & 18th century artists such as William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Peter Lely and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

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Friday 5 September

Charleston Farmhouse

Firle, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 6LL (map)

Charleston Farmhouse Visit

10:45am - 3:30pm

Julie will give a detailed guided tour through each of the rooms and studios inside Charleston Farmhouse, home to the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and a gathering point for the Bloomsbury group. After enjoying the beautiful gardens and having lunch in the Threshing Barn café, the group will visit the special exhibition ‘Inventing Post-Impressionism: Works from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts’. There will then be an option to visit to nearby Berwick Church to admire the stunning Bloomsbury murals.

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Tuesday 9 September

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)

Renaissance Netherlands & Venice (NG03)

10:30am - 12:30pm

15th century artists such as Jan Van Eyck, Hans Memling, Carlo Crivelli, Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna.

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Friday 12 September

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)

Renaissance Netherlands & Venice (NG03)

10:30am - 12:30pm

15th century artists such as Jan Van Eyck, Hans Memling, Carlo Crivelli, Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna.

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Thursday 18 September

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE (map)

The Tudors (NPG01)

11.00am - 1.00pm

16th century artists such as Hans Eworth, Nicholas Hilliard, Hans Holbein, and Marcus Gheeraerts.

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Friday 19 September

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE (map)

The Tudors (NPG01)

11.00am - 1.00pm

16th century artists such as Hans Eworth, Nicholas Hilliard, Hans Holbein, and Marcus Gheeraerts.

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Friday 3 October -
Tuesday 7 October

Venice Trip

Itinerary includes visits to the Basilica di San Marco, the Accademia, Scuolo di San Rocco, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Giorgio Maggiore and Torcello.

This four day cultural study tour to Venice will include detailed morning and afternoon tours through some of the rich artistic treasures of this historical city. The carefully compiled itinerary will combine some of the most famous sights in Venice with lesser known tranquil places.

We'll admire Venetian Renaissance master painters such as Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and Titian, be awe-inspired by splendid Byzantine mosaics and compare the ornate and colourful facades of Venice's Gothic palaces with the serene classicism of Palladio's Renaissance churches.

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Tuesday 14 October

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)

High Renaissance Florence & Rome (NG04)

10.30am - 12.30pm

16th century artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Sebastiano del Piombo and Bronzino.

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Friday 17 October

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)

High Renaissance Florence & Rome (NG04)

10.30am - 12.30pm

16th century artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Sebastiano del Piombo and Bronzino.

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Thursday 23 October

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE (map)

The Stuarts (NPG02)

11.00am - 1.00pm

17th century artists such as Gerard van Honthorst, Daniel Mytens, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.

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Friday 24 October

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE (map)

The Stuarts (NPG02)

11.00am - 1.00pm

17th century artists such as Gerard van Honthorst, Daniel Mytens, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.

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Friday 7 November -
Tuesday 11 November

Florence Part One Trip

Itinerary includes visits to the Uffizi, Accademia, Duomo, Baptistery, Bargello, San Marco Monastery & Santa Croce

This four day cultural study tour to Florence will include detailed morning and afternoon tours, providing the opportunity to experience first-hand stunning masterpieces by incredible and revolutionary painters, sculptors and architects. A small Gallery Talks group will be carefully guided by Julie through the treasure trove of art in the churches and museums of this wonderful city, which still retains an astoundingly dense concentration of great works of art. Whilst discovering the beauty and history of the art and appreciating the craftsmanship of the artists who created this inspirational city, we will also soak up the vibrant Florentine atmosphere and sample the delights of Italian cuisine.

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Friday 14th November

Courtauld Gallery

Somerset House, Strand, London WC2RN 0RN (map)

Impressionism (CG03)

10:45am - 12:45pm

19th century artists such as Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas.

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Tuesday 18 November

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)

High Renaissance Venice (NG05)

10:30am - 12:30pm

16th century artists such as Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese.

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Friday 21 November

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)

High Renaissance Venice (NG05)

10:30am - 12:30pm

16th century artists such as Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese.

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Thursday 27 November

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE (map)

The Restoration (NPG03)

11:00am - 1:00pm

17th century artists such as Sir Peter Lely, Mary Beale, Godfrey Kneller and Pierre Mignard.

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Friday 28 November

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE (map)

The Restoration (NPG03)

11:00am - 1:00pm

17th century artists such as Sir Peter Lely, Mary Beale, Godfrey Kneller and Pierre Mignard.

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Friday 5 December

Apsley House

149 Piccadilly, London W1J 7NT (map)

Apsley House Visit

11:00am - 1:15pm

Julie will give a detailed guided tour of the art in the magnificent Wellington Collection at Apsley House, Piccadilly, London, home to the Dukes of Wellington. This extraordinary and internationally important art collection includes masterpieces by Titian, Correggio, Rubens, Velázquez, Bruegel and Goya.

Apsley House, also known as Number One London, has been a family home to the Dukes of Wellington since the early 19th century and visitors today have the rare experience of viewing the art collection in the rooms in which it was originally shown.

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Thursday 19 February -
Monday 23 February 2026

Venice Trip

Itinerary to include visits to the Basilica di San Marco, the Accademia, Scuolo di San Rocco, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Giorgio Maggiore and Torcello.

This four day cultural study tour to Venice will include detailed morning and afternoon tours through some of the rich artistic treasures of this historical city. The carefully compiled itinerary will combine some of the most famous sights in Venice with lesser known tranquil places.

We'll admire Venetian Renaissance master painters such as Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and Titian, be awe-inspired by splendid Byzantine mosaics and compare the ornate and colourful facades of Venice's Gothic palaces with the serene classicism of Palladio's Renaissance churches.

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Friday 13 March -
Tuesday 17 March 2026

Florence Part Two Trip

Itinerary includes visits to the Palazzo Pitti & Boboli Gardens, Santa Maria Novella, Palazzo Vecchio, Casa Buonarotti, San Lorenzo & Medici Chapels

Florence is one of the loveliest cities in the world, with the River Arno running through it and surrounded by a circle of hills and its harmonious Medieval and Renaissance architecture dominated by Brunelleschi’s immense dome. The cradle of the Renaissance, the foundations for 500 years of western art were laid in Florence and it nurtured a succession of great artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.

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