Looking for an Unusual Night Out?: Student and Under-25 Event

Posted on 16 March 2012

For one night only the Wallace Collection is inviting students and under-25s to experience the museum after-hours. There will be opportunities to hear about the bawdy Dutch paintings and the Collection’s highlights, and learn about the intriguing and scandalous lives of the Wallace Collection’s founders; meet Queen Marie-Antoinette; and get made up 18th-century style, with fashion photographers We Are Photogirls.

Free drink and free ...

Unique Pieces Arrive in the Shop

Posted on 08 March 2012

Textile artist Lindsay Taylor has created a beautiful embroidered peacock for the Wallace Collection based on Weenix’s painting Flowers on a Fountain with a Peacock. This will be on display in the shop and forms part of the celebrations for the re-opening of the Dutch Galleries. Also by the artist and available to buy in the shop are original, unique pieces of jewellery. Visit now to avoid disappoi...

Aert van der Neer, 'Canal Scene by Moonlight,' c.1645-c.1650

Event: Gala Fundraising Dinner to celebrate the reopening of the Dutch Galleries

Posted on 07 March 2012

After many years of work, the opening of the refurbished Dutch Galleries is here. To celebrate, the Wallace Collection will be holding a Gala Fundraising Dinner on 19 April 2012, 7.15 – 11pm. The evening will be a chance to enjoy the new galleries and view the Wallace Collection’s finest Dutch Old Masters, including works by Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch and Jacob van Ruysdael.

Guests will be treated to a champage reception and private view of the ne...

New Publications

Posted on 22 February 2012

We are very happy to announce two new publications, Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures and Founders of the Wallace Collection. The former is the newly revised edition of the Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures with updated photography of newly conserved paintings and up-to-date attributions. This edition includes a history of the Collection, reproductions in colour of all the paintings, entries on each one, a brief biography on each artist...