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English Heritage Announces John Singer Sargent Exhibition for 2025 at Kenwood
Marking the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death, Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits will present the women who married into British and European aristocracy and the artist who painted them
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Rembrandt Masterpiece in New Anniversary Display
Kenwood House in Hampstead will host a special display to commemorate 350 years since Rembrandt’s death on 4 October 1669.
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To mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Joshua Reynolds, seventeen paintings by the artist will go on display at Kenwood this summer. Spanning virtually the entirety of his career, from one of his earliest to his very last, Spotlight on Reynolds includes portraits of leading society ladies, the children of aristocrats, politicians and businessmen, and the artist himself.
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Kenwood launches new display of Rembrandt masterpiece
Kenwood House in Hampstead will host a special display to commemorate 350 years since Rembrandt’s death on 4 October 1669, English Heritage has announced. Rembrandt #nofilter will celebrate the artist’s Self-portrait with Two Circles, a painting widely acknowledged as one of Rembrandt’s defining images and regarded by some as one of the world's greatest works of art.
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Two paintings depicting the same subject, The Guitar Player – one signed by the great Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) and the other whose origins remain a mystery – are on display side-by-side at Kenwood in London for the first time in over 300 years.
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Humphry Repton at Kenwood: A new vision for the landscape
Repton went on to become the last great landscape designer, but early in his career he worked on new innovations in gardening at Kenwood House, north London, transforming the landscape. His changes can still be seen today - but he didn't get his own way on everything...
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Joshua Reynolds is one of the most celebrated artists in the history of British art. At Kenwood, in London, we have 17 paintings by Reynolds, which span much of the artist’s career. From his portraits of children and his ‘fancy’ pictures, to his Grand Manner portraits and a self-portrait, in this article we explore the development of Reynolds’s work through the collection at Kenwood.