Competition
All events are free except where indicated. Book tickets online, call 020 7306 0055 or visit the Gallery.
EXHIBITION
TOURS
Free,
but tour tickets required and available on the day from 17.00 on a first come,
first served basis in addition to a timed exhibition ticket.
Friday
29 October, 19.30
Led by John
Wilson in BSL and interpreted into English.
Friday
5 November, 19.00
Lucy
Peltz, Exhibition curator and the Gallery’s 18th Century Curator.
Thursday
16 December, 19.00
Professor
Aileen Ribeiro, The Courtauld Institute of Art, looks at costume and jewellery.
Thursday
6 and Friday 21 January, 19.00
Clarissa
Campbell Orr, Anglia Ruskin University, looks at Lawrence and Court Culture in
the 1790s.
Thursday
28 October, 19.00
PANEL
DISCUSSION
The
Contemporary Thomas Lawrence?
Ondaatje
Wing Theatre
Tickets:
£5/£4 concessions
Part
of the Inside Out Festival
The
panel will debate who in the contemporary art world might fulfil the role that
Thomas Lawrence played in the 18th century. With Professor Eileen Hogan, Mark
Pomeroy (Royal Academy of Arts), Tot Taylor (Riflemaker) and David Barrie.
Chaired by Jonathan Derbyshire (Culture Editor, New Statesman).
Thursday
18 & Friday 19 November
CONFERENCE
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance
This one and a
half day conference will address Lawrence’s work and historical context
focusing on a range of issues from gender to representation. Speakers include Marcia
Pointon, Shearer West
(University of Birmingham), Jacob Simon (National Portrait Gallery), Mark Hallett (University of York), Ludmilla
Jordanova (King’s College,
London), David Solkin (Courtauld
Institute of Art), and the curators of the exhibition, Peter Funnel and Lucy
Peltz (National Portrait Gallery).
Thursday
18 November, 18.00
LECTURES
Thomas Lawrence:
Inventing the Regency
Ondaatje
Wing Theatre
Tickets:
£5/£4 concessions
The
biographer and author, Richard Holmes, discusses Lawrence and his impact and
legacy.
Thursday
9 December, 13.15
Mr
Tom: Sir Thomas Lawrence & the Kemble Family
Ondaatje
Wing Theatre
Frances
Hughes discusses the life and times of Lawrence and his relationship to the
theatre, especially Sarah Siddons and the Kemble family.
Thursday
25 November, 13.15
Heroics
and Glamour
Ondaatje
Wing Theatre
Writer
Matthre Dennison discusses Lawrence’s depiction of heroics and glamour in the
British monarchy.
YOUNG
PEOPLE
Events
for 14–21 year olds. To book call 020 7312 2483 or email youthbookings@npg.org.uk
Wednesday
27–Friday 29 October, 11.00–17.00 Daily
3-D
Identity Creation
Three-day
Workshop
Create
your own 3-D digital character with digital artist Marianne Holm Hansen and
games designer Ethan Kennedy at both the Gallery and the Roundhouse in Camden.
Travel between venues will be arranged. In partnership with the Roundhouse.

John Philip Kemble as Cato
by
Thomas Lawrence, 1812
Purchased with help from the Art Fund, Gift Aid visitor ticket
donations and the Garrick Club, 2009. Photograph Hugh Kelly © Joseph Friedman
Ltd; Collection National Portrait Gallery, London



