Monday 19 March 2012, 7.30pm at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Afton House
an illustrated talk on the controversial and corrupt election at Brentford in 1802 by Christopher May of the Richmond Local History Society
Johann Zoffany RA: Society Observed
Thursday 23 February 2012, doors open 7pm, talk at 7.30pm at St Nicholas Church, Chiswick
Martin Postle, curator of the Royal Academy exhibitionopening on 10 March, will give this illustrated talk about Zoffany, the 18th century artist whose home was at Strand on the Green.
The event has been organised jointly by the Friends of St Nicholas and the Friends of St Anne’s Kew. A donation of £5 is suggested for admission and refreshments
The Eragny Press of Lucien Pissarro 1894-1914
Monday 20 February 2012, 7.30pm at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Afton House
Simon Shorvon will give an illustrated talk about Lucien and Esther Pissarro and their private press in Stamford Brook. Dr Shorvon was a contributor to the recent exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum. Copies of the book which accompanied the exhibition, with his essay about the Pissarros’ life in our area, will be on sale at the meeting
