THE LONDON COURSE – LONDON IN THE EYE OF PAINTERS

As with writers and musicians London has acted as a magnet over the centuries to great artists both from Europe and at home: each has left an extraordinary record for the archive of the London as they saw it. This course will combine the historic significance of the artist’s subject matter with the unique style of the painter, and will illustrate the grandeur and miniscule intimacy of life in a great world city, which established its own special inspired relationships. Each walk and visit focuses on themes which artists have depicted, and further takes in the wider historic environment.

The Panoramas of the 16th and 17th centuries and their record of London