Talks Calendar All events listed below are free and drop-in


• Free Highlights Tour of the Collection: Mon 1pm, Tues and Thus 1pm & 2.30pm, Weds 11.30am & 2.30pm, Fri 1pm, Sat and Sun 11.30am & 2.30pm.


1 Thu 2 Fri


March 2012 1pm


5Mon 1pm 1pm


6 Tue


7Wed 1pm 8 Thu 1pm


9 Fri 1pm


• Brief Encounters: Wednesday at 1pm. These last about 20 minutes and are short introductions to a work of art or a subject.


• Please note: a maximum of 25 people can attend tours and talks. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.


The Image of Celebrity through the Ages Andrew Shingleton 1pm & 3pm Costumed Talk Meet Sir Richard Wallace


Treasure of theMonth Vincenzo Foppa, The Young Cicero Reading Lucy Davis, Curator


Ivories in the Wallace Collection Jeremy Warren Collections and Academic Director


Brief Encounter The 4th Marquess of Hertford as a Collector of Paintings Stephen Duffy Curator


Supreme Elegance: French Neo-Classical Furniture Christylle Phillips Two Pastorals by Francois Boucher Christoph Vogtherr Director


10 Sat 3.30pm Masterpieces Tour in French Les chefs-d’oeuvre de la Wallace Collection 13 Tue 1pm 14Wed 1pm 19Mon 1pm


The Swiss Art of War: 1400–1500 Keith Dowen Brief Encounter Modello for a Statue of Hebe Rosa Somerville


'With all the thirsting eye of enterprise;' Romantic depictions of literature Giuseppe Albano


20 Tue 1pm 21Wed 1pm 22 Thu 1pm


Conservation Ethics, Then & Now… a Walking Tour of the Galleries David Edge Head of Conservation


Brief Encounter Women Bathing: An Italian Renaissance Maiolica Dish Suzanne Higgott Curator


Treasure of theMonth Vincenzo Foppa, The Young Cicero Reading Lucy Davis Curator


24 Sat 2.30pm Family Public Tour Young Curators 25 Sun 12.30pm Masterpieces Tour in Polish Skarby Wallace Collection z polskim przewodnikiem Danuta Lasik


27 Tue 1pm 28Wed 1pm


29 Thu 1pm 1pm


30 Fri 3 Tue


April 2012 1pm


4Wed 1pm 5 Thu 1pm 10 Tue 1pm


From sand to cristallo: The magic of Venetian Glass Brian Cookson


Brief Encounter The Fine Art of Letter Writing: A Sèvres Porcelain Ink Stand Jill Bace


French Portrait Sculpture at the Wallace Collection Gabrielle Verrall Winding the Clocks Conservators


Paintings in the Front State Room Stephen Duffy Curator


Brief Encounter Sitting in Splendour – Important Chairs in the Wallace Collection Andrew Shingleton


Treasure of theMonth Tortoise-shell and Gold Counter Case Carmen Holdsworth Delgado Curatorial Assistant


Please don't touch…Security at the Wallace Collection Catherine Smith and David Chivers Security Department


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