Friday 6 October 2006, 18.30–19.00

Jenny Uglow discusses work in the Holbein in England exhibition and explores the real and imagined psychology of the people inside the paintings.

Uglow is a biographer, critic, historical consultant and publisher. Her books include Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick (2006), Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (1993), Hogarth: A Life and a World (1997) and The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future (2002). She has been twice nominated for the Whitbread Prize and has won the International PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. She reviews for radio and for the Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times and the Guardian.

Tate Britain  In the Exhibition
Free with discounted exhibition ticket, booking recommended

  

This event is related to the Holbein in England exhibition