Tickets
Standard (per email address) £20 | Friend of Penlee House (membership number required) £18
Dates
There is a 15 minute break after the first 60 minutes- with a Q and A session - the lecture continues for 40 minutes with another Q and A session at the end. Link to Zoom meeting sent via email.
About this event
1.Origins of Penlee: Portraits locals, artists & celebrities.
In this first lecture in a series of 7 on the Fine and Decorative Art collection of Penlee House Gallery in Penzance, Cornwall with art historian Catherine Wallace we look at the original family who owned Penlee and the formation of the Museum. The portraits of locals, artists and celebrities from the 18th to 20th centuries. Artists include R. T. Pentreath, John Opie, Sir Humphrey Davy, Walter Langley Edwin Harris, W. Wainwright, Stanhope Forbes, T. C. Gotch, H. Harvey. D. Swan, Elizabeth Forbes, Dod Procter, Laura Knight, Midge Bruford, Leonard Fuller, John Armstrong etc. 2 hour session. Also available as a recording on You Tube.
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