The Schwarzenberg Nef c.1580, The Schroder Collection, Holburne Museum
Details
The Hoburne Museum’s new Renaissance Gallery houses the spectacular Schroder Collection which is made up of an extraordinary array of silver and silver-gilt objects, jewels, Limoges enamels, rock crystal, northern European portraits and much more. Inspired by the delight and wonder of the Renaissance Kunstkammer tradition, the Collection was built up by the Schroder family, who were Anglo-German bankers, from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Venue
The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath BA2 4DB
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the visit is £195- plus Eventbrite booking fee
Cost of the visit with Senior Rail Card is £170- plus Eventbrite booking fee
Cost of the visit excluding transport is £117.00- plus Eventbrite booking fee
Programme
08.40am
Meet at Paddington Station
09.00am
Train departs for Bath Spa
10.50am
Coffee
11.30am
Visit to the Holburne Museum twith a curator to view the new display, Powder and Presence: Pastel Portraits in the Eighteenth Century as well as an introduction to the Museum’s splendid and wide-ranging Collections.
This new display illustrates the immediacy and freshness of pastel painting which captured the public imagination in England and Europe in the eighteenth century. Local Bath artists such as William Hoare and his son Prince Hoare will be seen alongside works of notable figures such as Jean-Etienne Liotard and Anna Tonelli.
1.00pm
Lunch
2.15pm
Visit to the Renaissance Gallery with Timothy Schroder
The new Schroder Gallery, designed by Eric Parry Associates with Real Studios, houses one of the finest private collections of silverware in the country as well as important paintings, bronzes, maiolica and gems, displayed in public for the first time. Highlights include some of the greatest masterpieces of the silversmith’s art, such as The Schwarzenberg Nef, a rare Mechanical Celestial Globe, and The Aldobrandini Tazza.
5.13pm
Train departs for London arriving Paddington at 6.39 pm.