Visit to Paris
September 30th to 2nd October

This three-day visit to Paris has been inspired by the Chateau de Chantilly’s exceptional exhibition, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, which is exhibiting the famous monthly calendar pages unbound for the first time, following the restoration of this celebrated Book of Hours.

Closes 16th November
Victoria & Albert Museum

This stunning exhibition will explore how Louis, Pierre and Jacques Cartier, grandsons of the founder, Louis-Francois, created with their exceptional craftsmanship a design style inspired by different cultures across the world from the early twentieth century onwards. This together with an international expansion of clients helped by their new venues in London and New York made the Parisian Cartier name world famous. The exhibition will include precious jewels, historic gemstones, iconic watches and clocks as well as previously unseen drawings from the V&A and Cartier archives.

Image: Brooch manufactured by Cartier, London ,1941.

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9 October 2025 - 11 January 2026
National Portrait Gallery

A celebrated portrait and war photographer as well as a painter and interior designer, this exciting exhibition will concentrate on Cecil Beaton’s ground-breaking fashion work, both as a costume designer and photographer. He produced era-defining photographs capturing the beauty, glamour and star power in the early post-war eras. This was a pivotal aspect of his career and his work moves from the Jazz Age and the Bright Young Things, to the high fashion brilliance of the fifties and the huge success of My Fair Lady.

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20th September ‒ 22th March 2026

Victoria & Albert Museum

Marie Antoinette was fourteen years old when she left Vienna to travel to France to marry the Dauphin in 1770, became Queen aged eighteen in 1774 and was guillotined in 1793 aged thirty-seven. This splendid exhibition traces the impact of Marie Antoinette on fashionable taste in her day as well as her lasting appeal and inspiration to designers up to the present day. Rare personal items includes spectacular jewels, porcelains, silk slippers and personal items of clothing together with a range of famous portraits.

Image: Portrait de Marie-Antoinette à la rose, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun

© Château de Versailles, Dist. Grand Palais RMN / Christophe Fouin.

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7th November – 10th May 2026
National Gallery of London

Joseph Wright of Derby is famous for his candlelight paintings, illustrating popular scientific developments. This fascinating exhibition contributes to the ongoing re-evaluation of the artist, showing how he used the night-time to explore deeper and more sombre themes, including death, melancholy, morality, scepticism and the sublime.

Image: Joseph Wright of Derby

A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery in Which a Lamp Is Put in Place, 1764-1766

© Derby Museums

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1st March - 30th June
Royal Academy of Arts

This exhibition celebrates the life and work of Angelica Kauffman (1741 - 1807), whose fine portraits and pioneering history paintings made her one of most famous female artists of the later eighteenth century. It explores her rise to fame in London, her role as one of the founding members of the Royal Academy and her later career in Rome where her studio became a hub for the city’s cultural life.

Image: Angelica Kauffman, Self-portrait at the Crossroads between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1794. National Trust Collections © National Trust Images/John Hammond

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