Event Information
5 June 2025
1pm - 2pm
Leighton House
About the tour
Join Hannah Lund, Curator for Exhibitions and Displays, for a tour of the exhibition Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle . The tour will encompass both the The Verey Exhibition Gallery and The Tavolozza Drawings Gallery , and will explore different aspects of the artworks on display, including insights into both of the collectors.
Collecting some 70 years apart, Cecil French (1879-1953) and Scott Thomas Buckle both began acquiring Victorian art against the grain of fashionable taste. Both collections reflect their personal perspectives and interests, and this exhibition will offer visitors an up-close look at the act and process of art collecting.
Meet Hannah Lund
Hannah Lund, Curator of Exhibitions and Displays at Leighton House and Sambourne House, is currently focused on the future exhibition programme and the interpretation of both historic houses. She joined the museums full-time in 2018 to work on a project to rationalise the reserve collection. Between 2019 and 2022 she was responsible for developing displays and interpretation as part of the museum’s capital project Hidden Gem to National Treasure. Hannah studied History of Art at Edinburgh University, completing a Research Masters in British material culture in 2017.
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