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James Hague, David Morrisey, Oil on Board.
Exhibition
The Show Goes On: A Theatre of Portraits by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
27 Jan 2020 – 23 Feb 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Sunday
- 10:30 – 17:30
Address
- Down Lane
- Compton
- Guildford
Surrey - GU3 1DQ
- United Kingdom
Cabaret and showmen, actors, comedians, musicians, dancers and playwrights all appear in a series of beguiling paintings by the current membership of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
About
The exhibition includes portraits and studies of well-known faces including Sammy Davis Jnr, John Osborne, David Morrissey, Tilda Swinton and Celia Imrie.
Founded in 1891 by artists who The Magazine of Art called ‘the front rank of outsiders’, the RP boasts G F Watts as an enthusiastic early member and William Orpen as a past President (1923 - 31). Both of these men painted the faces of their day and, in this exhibition, the RP continues to highlight portraiture’s enduring popularity and the continuance of this tradition in British Art.
