Treasures and collectors in Tudor England
This lecture looks at the king and his world through the lens of the institutions concerned with gold and silver, the Mint, the jewel house and the Goldsmiths’ Company. At the heart of all this sat Thomas Cromwell, who we all now know through Hilary Mantel’s novels, but who is shown in a rather different light in this lecture.
February is the Donation Lecture, supporting our Young Arts Projects.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Dr Timothy Schroder
Historian of gold and silver. Curator of Decorative Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts 1984-89. Director, Partridge Fine Arts 1991-7. Keeper, Gilbert Collection 1997-2000. Consultant Curator, V&A 2000-2010. Prime Warden, Goldsmiths’ Company, 2015-16 and 2019-20. Fellow, Society of Antiquaries 1994. DLitt (Oxford) 2013. Trustee, Wallace Collection from 2013. Trustee, City and Guilds Art School from 2020. Member, Westminster Abbey Fabric Commission from 2018. Publications include: English Domestic Silver (1988); Renaissance Silver from the Schroder Collection (2007); Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum (2009); ‘A Marvel to Behold’, Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII (2020); and numerous articles.
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