‘Shocking Sights of Woe’: David Wilkie, Charles Bell and the Battle of Waterloo – a NAM talk by Prof Philip Shaw

9 July 2015, 12.30 pm
 
Prof Shaw's talk will look at the contrasting images of war in the work of the physician Charles Bell and painter David Wilkie, focusing in particular on Bell's Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting (1806) and its influence on Wilkie's painting Chelsea Pensioners receiving the London Gazette Extraordinary of Thursday June 22nd, 1815 (1822).
 
Free entry. Booking required – contact NAM customer services on (+44) 20 7730 0717. Booking closes three days before the lecture.
Hosted by the Army & Navy Club, 36-39 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JN. Dress code: smart casual.
 
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