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Angela’s Talks - Autumn 2011/Winter 2012
More info from angel@angelathirlwell.co.uk


The first major Exhibition for almost 50 years devoted to Madox Brown, Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer, will be at Manchester Art Gallery from 24 September 2011 - 29 January 2012 and will then be shown at the Museum voor Shone Kunsten in Ghent in Be from 25 February - 3 June 2012. I have written a character study of Madox Brown for the exhibition catalogue called ‘The Game of Life’, based on a mischievous Parlour Game he played in 1866.

Sunday 4th December at 11.00 a.m. for the Friends of Kenwood at Kenwood House, Hampstead Lane, London NW3 7JR I will be giving an illustrated talk called 'FORD MADOX BROWN: A Pre-Raphaelite Journey From Ghent to Manchester – via Hampstead'. Currently honoured with a major exhibition in Manchester and Ghent in 2011 – 2012, Ford Madox Brown spent one annus mirabilis in Hampstead where he painted some of his most famous pictures. I will focus on the spirit of place that inspired Brown, from Belgium where he was a teenage art-student to the city of Manchester which invited him in his maturity to make 12 stunning murals for its iconic new Town Hall. The pictures that still speak to us today such as The Last of England, Work and An English Autumn Afternoon were all painted on sites in Hampstead which we can identify more than a century and a half later.

This autumn, Manchester Art Gallery stages the first major exhibition of Ford Madox Brown's work in almost 50 years.
Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer September 24, 2011 - January 29, 2012
www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/exhibitions

FORD’S PROVENCE – A PRE-RAPHAELITE VISION
A literary lunch in the south of France, Hotel Les Esparrus, Villecroze 83690
Saturday 12 November 2011 at 12 noon More details from Jane Emery: clarissajane.emery@nordnet.fr

FORD MADOX BROWN – LIFE, LOVE, ART
An illustrated talk in conjunction with Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer the first major Exhibition in 50 years at Manchester Art Gallery,
Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL
Saturday 19 November at 2.00 p.m. More details from Rebecca Milner: r.milner@manchester.gov.uk

FORD MADOX BROWN: PRE-RAPHAELITE PIONEER – THE GAME OF LIFE
An illustrated talk for the Chorleywood Literary Festival, Chorleywood Memorial Hall, Common Road, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire WD3 5LN
Sunday 27 November at 6.00 p.m.
More details from Sheryl and Morag at the Chorleywood Bookshop: chorleywoodbookshop@btopenworld.com

FORD MADOX BROWN: A PRE-RAPHAELITE JOURNEY FROM GHENT TO MANCHESTER – VIA HAMPSTEAD
An illustrated talk for the Friends of Kenwood House, Kenwood, Hampstead Lane, London NW3 7JR
Sunday 4 December at 11.00 a.m. followed by their Christmas Party More details from info@friendsofkenwood.org.uk

INSPIRED IN HAMPSTEAD: FORD MADOX BROWN – PRE-RAPHAELITE PIONEER
An illustrated talk for Hampstead U3A
Monday 6 February 2012 at 10.10 a.m. in the Peter Samuel Hall of the Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG
More details from Derek Scott (Chairman Monday Talks Committee): RUDESCO@aol.com

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