{"title": "Masterclass: Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T21:00:00Z", "place": "Barts North Wing", "address": "St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A two-hour masterclass on the painter Vermeer, held in the historic Great Hall at Barts North Wing. Art historian, critic and broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon takes us inside Vermeer's paintings, exploring their composition, symbolism, technique and atmosphere through close looking. Drawing on years of research for his book Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, named The Times Art Book of the Year 2025, he reveals the discoveries behind his new understanding of the artist and situates the works within the religious, political and social upheavals of the seventeenth century, including newly unearthed documents. 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Pitzhanger's Director Rebecca Lyons leads a guided tour tracing Still Life from seventeenth-century Dutch painters to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern painters through the lens of Woods's works. Annabel Johnson leads a relaxed drawing session inspired by the flowers and objects in Clare Woods's paintings, with materials provided and all levels welcome. 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It is run by 2B Or Not 2B Collective, a POC-run London life drawing group that aims to make life drawing accessible to all and uplifting for marginalised bodies. A life model recreates the elegant poses, drapery and play of body and fabric from the paintings, in the very house where Leighton lived and painted. 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