Tuesday 1 December 2009, 13.15–13.30
Saturday 5 December 2009, 14.30–14.45
Tuesday 8 December 2009, 13.15–13.30
Saturday 12 December 2009, 14.30–14.45
Tuesday 15 December 2009, 13.15–13.30
Saturday 19 December 2009, 14.30–14.45
Tuesday 22 December 2009, 13.15–13.30
Tuesday 29 December 2009, 14.30–14.45

Dew-Drenched Furze 1889-90 is regarded as one of the great achievements of John Everett Millais’s later career. Showing sunlight on the gorse at the Scottish Murthly Estate, it is an uncharacteristically abstract work for Millais, who took Romantic art in a new symbolist direction with this sombre painting. Hear more at this fifteen-minute talk.

Tate Britain  Room 12
Free