Art Pursuits - The Mansion House

Art Pursuits Study Day

The Mansion House, London

Monday,22 September 2008

The Mansion House (1739-52) – hardly ever open to the public – is one of the most splendid surviving Georgian town palaces in London. It was built as a residence for the Lord Mayor of London during his year of office, a place where he could live, work and entertain on a grand scale. Its interior has recently been transformed by the introduction of the Harold Samuel collection of Dutch and Flemish pictures, the finest private collection of such works to be formed in Britain in the twentieth century. It includes works by Frans Hals, Nicolaes Maes and Jacob van Ruisdael amongst others. It was bequeathed to the Corporation of London by Lord Samuel in 1987, to be hung permanently in the Mansion House.

As some of the paintings are quite small, the maximum number of participants for this study day is 20.

About the Lecturers Our morning lecturer, Vivien Knight, is Curator of the City of London's Guildhall Art Gallery.

This study day will be led jointly by Joachim Strupp and Nicola Smith, the founders of Art Pursuits. Joachim Strupp is a specialist in Venetian Renaissance art who has lectured widely on Palladio and led many tours to Palladio’s villas and the Veneto. Nicola Smith is an architectural historian who has worked as a historic buildings inspector for English Heritage, and as a university lecturer in art history.

You can download a Study Days booking form and booking conditions here, using Acrobat Reader. Or ring or write for further details.
Tel and fax 01280 820307 info@artpursuits.com

This Art Pursuits study day programme is:

Time	Activity
10:30-11:00	Refreshments at the Art Workers Guild
11:00-12:00	Vivien Knight: Guildhall Art Gallery Dutch and Flemish Painting: The Golden Age
12:00-13:15	Sandwich lunch at the Art Workers Guild
13:15-13:45	Travel from the Art Workers Guild to the Mansion House (Holborn to Bank – 3 stops on the Central Line)
13:45-14:00	Assemble at the Mansion House, adjacent to Bank underground station and opposite the Bank of England
14:00-15:30	Private tour of the Harold Samuel Collection of Dutch and Flemish pictures in the Mansion House

Location

The morning lecture for this study day will be held in the meeting rooms of the Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1. After lunch, we will travel independently to the Mansion House, for our private tour.

Price

Tickets cost £ 65.00 per person including refreshments on arrival and a light sandwich lunch with wine.

The visit is subject to the Mansion House not being required for use for some unforeseeable purpose of over-riding national importance or of special importance to the City. If the visit were to be cancelled for any such reason, we would refund any payments which you have made to us.

We regret we are unable to offer refunds on unused tickets, but tickets may be transferred to someone else for the event you have booked.

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