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Speaker: Nicola Moorby, Curator, British Art 1790-1850 at Tate. Art historian, lecturer, author and Trustee, Turner’s House
Nicola Moorby is Curator, British Art 1790-1850 at Tate. She is a specialist in British art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, British modernism, British watercolour and historic materials and techniques.
Her early career was spent at Tate (2000-2011), where she variously worked as an assistant curator, cataloguer and as registrar and manager of the Prints and Drawings Rooms. She was a significant contributor to two Tate online research publications – The Camden Town Group in Context and J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours – and has extensive publishing credits, including as co-editor and author of the publication How to Paint Like Turner.
As an independent art historian she was an accredited lecturer for the Arts Society and a regular teacher for the Short Courses department at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her book, Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape is published by Yale University Press (2025).
Always an intensely autobiographical artist, John Constable is famous for painting landscapes with which he had very intimate associations. This talk reveals his connections with Hampstead, which from 1819 onwards became an important second home for himself and his family. It was here that he extended his outdoor oil practice, producing closely observed naturalistic sketches of heath and sky that are remarkable for their exceptional freshness and vitality. As much admired today as his finished paintings, these highly charged and individualistic studies sit at the intersection of art, science and profound, personal emotion.
Members: Free, Online or Victoria Hall
Non-Members: £10, Online or Victoria Hall. To attend in person, please pay on the door
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Please join us for a drink in the Members’ Room after the lecture
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