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Date/Time
Date(s) - 14 May 2024
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Price
£0.00
Location
Leconfield Hall
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Following the formal business at the AGM, committee member Ian Yonge will give an illustrated talk on oddities, small details and stories behind some of the collection at Petworth House of which the passing visitor will be unaware.
Ians talk will include:
- * Grinling Gibbons and his pea pods
- * Why the statue of Prometheus and Pandora remains unfinished
- * The restored painting with a man changed into a woman
- * Gainsborough and broccoli
- * The Kings picture restorer and a ruined Turner
- * King Charles 1st portrait with missing head
- * The revealing x-ray of a Venus
- * And lots more!
Minutes of the 2023 AGM can be found here: AGM 2023
