Past Events
One-day Seminars
A Day with Sir James Thornhill
Eighteenth Century Architecture in Dorset (Visit to Chettle House)
Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.
An Appreciation
Wessex Gardens Past and Present
Eastbury Park – Cultural crossroad of the Eighteenth Century
Sir John Vanbrugh-Sir James Thornhill-Charles Bridgeman-James Thomson-George Bubb Dodington
Sir Christopher Wren & Sir James Thornhill
Architect & Painter at St. Paul’s Cathedral and Greenwich
Sir James Thornhill
The Artist at Work
Sherborne House and Sherborne in the Eighteenth Century
Dame Elisabeth Frink remembered through Film and Friends
The William Charles Macready Decade Sherborne 1850-1860
The Making of the Modern Town
Sherborne House – the Story so far
The Site, the Building, its Occupants and its Future
Annual Schools’ Exhibitions
Sherborne House
Visits
Visit to Thornhill House
Visit to Hampton Court
Weymouth
The Last Supper in St. Mary’s Church, collection of Thornhill material (Town Library), Coat of Arms (Brewer’s Quay Museum).
Oxford
All Souls College, The Queen’s Collage, Ashmolean Museum, Clarendon Building Sculptures & Chinnor (Cartoons for the Rose Window in Westminster Abbey)
The Thornhill Obelisk (1727), Stalbridge
visit and lecture
Bush and Berry Studio (Bristol)
To see the restoration, cleaning and conservation of Thornhill’s full size copies of the Raphael Cartoons
Bristol - International Fine Art Restoration Studio
To see the cleaning and restoration of Streeter’s ceiling paintings in the Sheldonian, Oxford, and Bristol Art Gallery.
London
Painter-Stainers Hall (works by Thornhill and the Thornhill Cup) and St. Paul’s Cathedral (Dome, Library, Collection of Thornhill miscellanea)
Greenwich
The Painted hall, The Queen’s House and the National Maritime Museum
Visit to Thornhill House
Lectures
Talk by Brett Dolman, Curator of Paintings at Hampton Court
Father in Law and Son in Law. James Thornhill and William Hogarth
From Thornhill to Turner - A Century of English Art
The Rich and Diverse Collections of the St Pauls Cathedral and its Library
Spitfire Women of WW2
Dorset Churches
On being a Mural Painter today
The Thirteenth Apostle- The birth of the British School of Art
Sir Christopher Wren and Sir James Thornhill
Wessex Gardens Past and Present
A Taste for the Exotic in Eighteenth Century England
Sir James Thornhill, Greenwich, Sherborne & Beyond
Lecture by Duncan Wilson
Talk Lucinda Hawksley
Events
Jeremy Barker Book Signing
Reading Dickens where Dickens read
The Feast of King Bean
Wessex Strings Concert
Trip to the Kennet and Avon Canal
Art Exhibitions
Exhibition in Holt Gallery
The Sherborne House Collection Exhibition - Holt Gallery
The Bloomsbury Group
Sherborne House
Going Modern – Being British
Sherborne House
Elisabeth Frink
Sherborne House
Images of Sherborne
Sherborne House
Fake or Fortune
The Holt Gallery
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)
The Holt Gallery
From Rembrandt to Hockney - Hidden Treasures in Sherborne Collections
The Holt Gallery
Print Exhibition
The Holt Gallery
Sir James Thornhill’s Preliminary Drawings for the Painted Hall at Greenwich
The Holt Gallery