Our Autumn events will begin with a private visit to Marble Hill, the charming Thames-side villa built for the remarkable Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk. Twickenham was immensely fashionable as an out-of-town retreat in the early eighteenth century with important figures such as Alexander Pope and Horace Walpole near neighbours.

21st November 2026 - 11 April 2027
National Gallery, London

This exciting exhibition brings together for the first time all nine painted portraits by Jan Van Eyck (active 1422 -1441). Van Eyck’s startling naturalism and his dexterity with oil paint was immensely influential on the art of portraiture. He was amongst the first to depict merchants, craftsmen and family members. The National Gallery’s Arnolfini Portrait and the newly conserved Portrait of a Man will be displayed alongside exceptional loans from abroad, including the Margareta van Eyck from Bruges.

Image: Jan van Eyck
Margaret, the Artist's Wife, 1439
Groeningemuseum
© Municipal Museums Bruges, Groeningemuseum

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8 October 2026 - 11 April 2027
Ashmolean Museum

The Greek goddess Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, remain the defining symbols of beauty and desire in Western culture.

This remarkable exhibition traces Aphrodite’s journey and transformations from her origins in ancient Cyprus to the present day.

Image: Venus sailing on a barge Tunisia, © Musée du Louvre

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3rd October 2026 ‒ 10th January 2027

The Holburne Museum, Bath

This splendid exhibition traces the enduring influence of the South Downs and other chalk landscapes on a generation of artists, including Eric Ravilious, William Nicholson, Paul Nash, and Tirzah Garwood, working between the 1910s and the 1940s. These artists in their paintings, drawings and prints transformed the tradition of landscape painting for a modern era as well as responding to background of mounting political drama and conflict.

Image: The Westbury Horse, Eric Ravilious, Watercolour, 1939, on loan to the Towner Collection, Eastbourne

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7th November 20 26 – 9th May 2027
Victoria & Albert Museum

This fascinating exhibition will explore 1,600 years of extraordinary artistic production in one of the world’s most influential cities, Constantinople and later Istanbul. Spanning AD 330 to 1922. it will bring together a stunning array of textiles, ceramics tiles, precious metalwork and jewellery, together with manuscripts, paintings and sculpture which reveal the creative legacy of this imperial capital that shaped the Mediterranean world and far beyond.

Image: Aya Sofia Constantinople, published by P. & D. Colnaghi. London, 1852 © Victoria and Albert Museum

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12th November 2026 - 11th April 2027
Tate Britain

This vibrant exhibition celebrates the creative partnership of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Leading members of the Bloomsbury Group, their radical experimentation and unconventional approach to life was a major part of the avant-garde in early twentieth- century Britain. Works range from portraits, still lifes and landscapes, together with furniture, ceramics and textiles adorned with their modernist designs.

Image: Vanessa Bell Interior with the Artist’s Daughter c.1935-36. The Charleston Trust. © 2026 Estate of Vanessa Bell

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