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Pugin's Exhibition Room, Somerset House, showing a room which is now part of the Courtauld Gallery. The Courtauld Institute was founded in 1932 through the philanthropic efforts of the industrialist and art collector Samuel Courtauld, the diplomat and collector Lord Lee of Fareham, and the art historian Sir Robert Witt.
The Exhibition Room at Somerset House by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin (1800). This room is now part of the Courtauld Gallery. The North Wing of Somerset House was initially fitted out to house the Royal Academy, the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. The Royal Academy took up residence first, in 1779, followed by the ...
Somerset House will celebrate its 25-year milestone with a special year of programming and new initiatives, it announced. ... Stand Up Now exhibition back in 2019 that celebrated 50 years of Black ...
Originally the Courtauld was based in Home House, a townhouse designed by Robert Adam in Portman Square, Marylebone. The Strand block of Somerset House, designed by William Chambers from 1775 to 1780, has housed the Courtauld since 1989. [6] The Courtauld has been an independent college of the University of London since 2002. [7]
“The Missing Thread, Untold Stories of Black Fashion,” an exhibition at London’s Somerset House, dives deep into the history of Black British culture from the 1970s to the present day ...
Art historian Anthony Bailey wrote "If Soane had been sensible, he would have cleared out some of the clutter in his house in order to hang a glowing masterpiece". [2] When it was publicly displayed at the Royal Academy's 1826 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House reviewers criticised the
Smoke billows out from the roof of Somerset House in central London on Aug. 17, 2024, after a fire broke out at the large neoclassical arts venue. Credit - Shivansh Gupta—AP.
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection is a collection of objets d'art formed by the English-born businessman Sir Arthur Gilbert, who made most of his fortune in the property business in California. After initially becoming interested in silver, he assembled a large collection of decorative arts, which he gave the British nation in 1996.