Monday, 5 October 2026
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Historical art, worth seeing in person.
A growing selection from museums and galleries. Dates checked against official announcements.
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The Wallace Collection
A display explores the museum’s wartime history, including its Artists Aid Russia exhibition.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Wallace Collection
Churchill’s paintings are shown with work by some of his artistic mentors and friends.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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National Gallery
Paintings from the 1860s to the 1880s explore affection, friendship and the social life of Paris.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Courtauld Gallery
Toy designs, prints and a still life explore Gill’s practice and her work at the Omega Workshops.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Wallace Collection
A focused display examines how Cosimo I used images and objects to express dynastic authority.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Royal Academy of Arts
The touring exhibition examines Guggenheim’s London gallery and its avant-garde circle.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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National Gallery
A gathering of Jan van Eyck’s painted portraits, tracing the people and relationships behind them.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Courtauld Gallery
Flemish drawings are presented alongside findings from recent research and technical examination.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Courtauld Gallery
A focused exhibition reassesses Rego’s Dog Woman pastels.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Courtauld Gallery
Rego’s etchings and aquatints draw on poems by Blake Morrison.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Tate Modern
The touring exhibition explores time through Monet’s paintings and repeated motifs.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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National Gallery
Small paintings examine the signed work of a sixteenth-century Flemish painter.
Dates and venue checked 5 October 2026.
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The Wallace Collection
Paintings and drawings examine the relationship between observation and invention in Watteau’s work.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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National Gallery
Paintings by Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter trace German Expressionism before and during the First World War.
Dates and venue checked 5 October 2026.
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The Wallace Collection
A display explores the cultural significance and histories of Asante gold regalia.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Courtauld Gallery
Drawings explore invention and collaboration around Rubens’s workshop.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Courtauld Gallery
Watercolours follow the journeys of Turner, Constable, Girtin and Cotman.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Courtauld Gallery
Landscapes depict the terrain around O’Keeffe’s home and studio at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Courtauld Gallery
Photographs by Philippe Halsman and John Loengard show O’Keeffe at her New Mexico home.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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The Wallace Collection
Portraits of Titus are shown alongside Rembrandt’s self-portraits.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
Announcements, reviews and the stories behind the exhibitions.
The planned exhibition will bring together 120 paintings and drawings for the 300th anniversary of Thomas Gainsborough’s birth, Tate says.
Tate says its 2027 exhibition, planned with Hockney before his death in June 2026, will bring together more than 200 works on love, friendship and creative relationships.
The ticketed collaboration with the Rijksmuseum is planned to reunite Rembrandt’s portraits of his son Titus with self-portraits and loans from five other institutions.
The London gallery’s newly announced programme also includes drawing displays and painted wardrobe panels attributed to Vanessa Bell, donated after more than a century in one family.
Man Ray and Picasso join the Reuben Collection display. Auction records clarify the history of Magritte’s L’ami intime, while its route into the lending collection remains unconfirmed.
Three Foundation gifts anchor the ARTIST ROOMS display. One appeared in a dealer’s priced preview last year, leaving its route from commercial offer to donation unexplained.
