Refurbishing Boston Manor House, 17 October 2022


an online talk by John Collins at 7.30pm on Monday, 17 October 2022

Hounslow’s Historic Houses Manager, John Collins, will reveal the stunning work that has been undertaken recently at Boston Manor, describe how its story will be presented to visitors when it re-opens and the ways in which the restored building will be used.

We will open the event at 7.15 to allow people to get settled before the formal start at 7.30.

As usual there will be no charge to join this event but please reserve your place via Ticket Tailor at
https://buytickets.at/brentfordchiswicklocalhistorysociety/779963

Hogarth & Animals talk has been postponed

Just after we posted the news items about this talk (below) we heard from the Hogarth’s House team apologising that it had had to be postponed due to circumstances beyone their control. It will be rescheduled as soon as practicable.

However, several talks at the House are  coming up in late October/early November, dates to be confirmed – including Val Bott on “At Home with the Hogarths”, Sheila O’Connell on Hogarth’s drawings and Elizabeth Einberg on animals.

Hogarth & His Animals, Hogarth’s House, TALK POSTPONED

Hogarth & His Animals, a talk by the Hogarth expert Elizabeth Einberg

Tickets are £10 per person, to support the House

Hogarth was not a specialist animal painter like, for example, George Stubbs or John Wootton, but he could paint any animal he wanted with natural force. His relationship to the animals he put in his pictures, however, was different from anyone else’s. None of them is merely a portrait, but the animals are there to comment, either subtly or directly, on his subject matter and on the circumstances and views of his sitters.

The galleries will remain open to visitors until the talk begins. The bar in the Weston Studio will be open before and after the talk with a delicious range of soft drinks.

For further details and to book your place, visit William Hogarth & his animals

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