Satire to Sublime: British Art from Hogarth to Turner at the National Gallery
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The Sainsbury Wing Theatre
National Gallery Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5DN United KingdomRefund Policy
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Satire to Sublime: British Art from Hogarth to Turner
Thursday 21st March 2019
Find out how eighteenth and early nineteenth-century painters grappled with the rapid changes of life in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain.
Listen to National Gallery experts on Hogarth’s satirical look at British life, Wright of Derby’s provocations around scientific ethics and Turner’s confrontations with modernity and progress and learn about key developments in British painting c.1745-1845, focussing on portraits, landscapes and scenes of everyday life in the National Gallery’s collection.
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