Room 1540
Tracy Chevalier on John Bettes’s A Man in a Black Cap 1545
Author Tracey Chevalier discusses what draws her to this painting

John Bettes
A Man in a Black Cap (1545)
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Tracy Chevalier on The Cholmondeley Ladies c.1600–10
Author Tracey Chevalier considers who these women might have been
Unknown artist, Britain
The Cholmondeley Ladies (c.1600–10)
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Room 1650
Martin Myrone on Mary Beale’s Portrait of a Young Girl c.1681
Curator Martin Myrone on Mary Beale’s career as an artist

Mary Beale
Portrait of a Young Girl (c.1681)
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Room 1730
Lubaina Himid on William Hogarth’s O the Roast Beef of Old England 1748
Artist Lubaina Himid explains why she loves this ‘nasty’ painting
William Hogarth
O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’) (1748)
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Room 1760
Alice Procter on Johan Zoffany’s Colonel Modaunt's Cock Match c.1784–6
Art Historian Alice Procter describes who is present in this scene
Johan Zoffany
Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Match (c.1784–6)
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Room 1780
Lubaina Himid on John Singleton Copley’s The Death of Major Peirson 1783
Artist Lubaina Himid explores the detail of this painting
John Singleton Copley
The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 (1783)
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Room 1810
Martin Myrone on John Constable’s Flatford Mill 1816–7
Curator Martin Myrone considers what this landscape meant to Constable

John Constable
Flatford Mill (‘Scene on a Navigable River’) (1816–7)
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Alice Procter on J.M.W Turner’s The Field of Waterloo exhibited 1818
Art Historian Alice Procter describes Turner’s take on the consequences of warLubaina Himid on John Simpson’s Head of a Man (?Ira Frederick Aldridge) exhibited 1827
Artist Lubaina Himid on what does not appeal to her about this painting
John Simpson
Head of a Man (?Ira Frederick Aldridge) (exhibited 1827)
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Room 1840
Minnie Scott on John Singer Sargent’s Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose 1885–6
Interpretation curator Minnie Scott considers the sensory qualities of Sargent’s work
John Singer Sargent
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885–6)
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Michelle Williams Gamaker on Richard Dadd’s The Flight out of Egypt 1849–50
Artist Michelle Williams Gamaker discusses this painting and Dadd's personal history

Richard Dadd
The Flight out of Egypt (1849–50)
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