Past lectures

	Thursday 21 September 2017 Lecturer: Catherine Wallace Dod Procter RA (1890-1972): A Forgotten Newlyn Painter Only the second woman after Laura Knight to be made a full Royal Academician in 1942 Dod Procter was famous in her day but has been sadly neglected and largely forgotten since. This lecture looks
	Thursday 15 June 2017 Lecturer: Anne Anderson Rene Lalique: Master of Art Nouveau Jewellery and Art Deco Glass Although Lalique is best known for his Art Deco glass of the inter-war years, his career began in the early 1890s as the designer of the finest Art Nouveau jewellery, creating stunning pieces from
	Thursday 18 May 2017 Lecturer: Timothy Wilcox Paradise Regained: the Life and Art of Samuel Palmer The early watercolours and ink drawings of Samuel Palmer evoke a rural idyll, a vision of a secure village life seemingly far removed from the harsh realities of modern industrial Britain. But whi
	Thursday 20 April 2017 Lecturer: Caroline Rayman Three Great Families and their Gardens This is the story of three very different, but hugely successful families, the Sackville Wests, the Astors and the Rothschilds. The Sackville Wests have been part of the establishment since the Co
	40th Anniversary 2017 AGM on Wednesday 5 April at 10:30 in the presence of Lady Camoys, Henley DFAS President, and June Robinson, NADFAS National Chairman Lecturer: John Benjamin At the Sign of the Falcon: The Fascinating Life of Jazz Age Goldsmith Henry George Murphy Harry Murphy served his apprenticeship under Henry WIlson, probably Bitain's greatest designer goldsmith of the Arts & Crafts era. He worked from premises in Marylebone known as the Falcon Stu
	Thursday 16 March 2017 Lecturer: Janet Robinson Eight Great Frescoes: A Frescoholic Tour of Italy A whistle-stop tour of eight of the greatest fesco cycles in Italian art. We begin with the ground-breaking St Francis cycle in the Upper Church of San Francesco in Assisi, then travel to Padua, S
	Thursday 16 February 2017 Lecturer: Anne Sebba Les Parisiennes: How Women Lived, Loved and Died in Paris 1939-1949 Les Parisiennes is a story about women's lives during the dark years of Nazi occupation and beyond. It includes British and American women caught in Paris as well as native born resisters who were
	Thursday 19 January 2017 Lecturer: Sarah Kelly Changing Faces: 700 Years of Portraiture Portraits are great survivors. Of all the art forms current in the fifteenth century, portraiture is the one that is stioll popular today. This lecture will focus on a range of portraits, some by