Carving in Britain

From 1910 To Now 3 Dec 2012 - 12 Jan 2013 Although by no means an exhaustive survey of British carving of the last hundred years – exhibition space and availability of works dictated that - Carving in Britain was for many an introduction to a field that has attracted renewed interest in the last decade. It is possible to construct... Read more

George Clausen and the Picture of English Rural Life

10 Oct - 8 Nov 2012 In 1979, to coincide with the Royal Academy’s Post- Impressionism exhibition and anticipate the large Sir George Clausen touring show, The Fine Art Society staged The Rustic Image, an exhibition surveying rural themes in British Painting. Of the eighty pictures by forty-two artists represented, nine were by Clausen. Not only... Read more

Sir Peter Blake

Things I Love at The Fine Art Society 20 Jul - 1 Sep 2012 In 2012 The Fine Art Society proudly announced Things I Love At The Fine Art Society, an exhibition curated by Sir Peter Blake R.A. Opening the week before the Olympic and Paralympics games, the exhibition was a celebration of London and the artists who have lived and worked in the... Read more

Twelve Scottish Paintings

22 Jun - 21 Jul 2012 Twelve paintings by Scottish artists spanning three centuries of art history. With work by Allan Ramsay, Jacob More, Sir David Wilkie, Alexander Fraser Snr, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sam Bough, Sir David Murray, Patrick William Adam, F C B Cadell, John Maclauchlan Milne, Anne Redpath, James McIntosh Patrick. Read more

Frank Dobson 1886-1963

20 Jun - 7 Jul 2012 Frank Dobson was born in Acton Street, St Pancras, London on 18 November 1886. His father was a commercial artist, and young Frank was introduced to the technical aspects of painting at an early age. His father also fostered in him a love and respect for fine art by taking... Read more

John Piper 1903-1992

30 May - 22 Jun 2012 John Piper (1903–1992) was an important and distinctive figure in modern British art in a long career that spanned seven decades, from the 1920s through to the 1980s. Throughout this time he was constantly evolving and changing and refining the nature of his style, and the trajectory he followed was... Read more

Samuel Palmer

His Friends and Followers 30 May - 22 Jun 2012 The landscape has a fundamental place in British art. During the earlier nineteenth century it inspired the greatest British artists to paint what they saw and experienced outside their studios in England and elsewhere: Turner, Constable, Bonington, David Roberts and John Linnell. Unlike such artists, Palmer approached landscape not in... Read more

Augustus Welby Pugin

Objects and Designs 7 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 A.W.N. Pugin: Objects and Designs was a selling exhibition held in association with Haslam and Whiteway of Kensington Church Street, London, of furniture, objects and designs by architect and designer, A.W.N.Pugin. The exhibiton included a spectacular Corona from the Bishop's House, Birmingham (1840), a Candlestick bearing the arms of William... Read more