Online In Conversation: Victorian Treasures with Scott Thomas Buckle

About the event

Join independent art historian Scott Thomas Buckle and Exhibition Curator Hannah Lund in conversation online, as they discuss Scott’s remarkable collection of drawings, many of which are on public display for the first time as part of the museum's current exhibition Victorian Treasures.

'Drawings give you an insight into the artists’ process – you can see them figuring something out in the moment, thinking through a particular detail or how the composition will fit together, they allow you to get closer to the artist at work.'   Scott Thomas Buckle  

Hannah and Scott will discuss how he went about developing his collection,  which showcases a variety of styles and techniques employed by the Victorians and includes rare pieces, such a pair of sketches by a 12-year old Millais. 

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Meet the speakers

Scott Thomas Buckle has lived his entire life in Fulham. At the age of twenty he started collecting artworks, soon amassing a large collection of paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints. He now works as an independent art historian, advising auction houses, museums and galleries about 19th Century British Art, with a special interest in works on paper and Victorian artists’ models. He has written extensively, with content published in the British Art Journal, the Pre-Raphaelite Society Review and on The Victorian Web. He has loaned works to exhibitions in the past, but this is the first time that a selection of drawings and watercolours from his collection have been on public view together.

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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