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    Rienzi Gallery Talk: Edward Willes

    Presented by Rienzi Center for European Decorative Arts, MFAH at Rienzi Center for European Decorative Arts

    January 27, 2011

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    Rienzi Gallery Talk: Edward Willes
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    Each month Rienzi highlights a great work of art in Rienzi's collection. Rienzi Gallery Talks are given by museum curators, conservators, educators, and librarians.

    In January, Leslie Scattone, Assistant Curator of the Blaffer Foundation, will discuss an elegant portrait of Edward Willes by the gifted English painter Sir Thomas Lawrence. President of the...

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    Each month Rienzi highlights a great work of art in Rienzi's collection. Rienzi Gallery Talks are given by museum curators, conservators, educators, and librarians.

    In January, Leslie Scattone, Assistant Curator of the Blaffer Foundation, will discuss an elegant portrait of Edward Willes by the gifted English painter Sir Thomas Lawrence. President of the Academy of Art in London, Lawrence was celebrated in his time as a portraitist able to paint truths about the character of his sitters.

    Please call 713.639.7800 for more information.

    Image: Sir Thomas Lawrence, English, 1769 - 1830, Edward Willes, early 1790s, oil on canvas, the Rienzi Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Masterson III.


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    Rienzi Center for European Decorative Arts

    1406 Kirby Drive
    Houston, TX 77019

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    Free, space is limited, reservations are recommended.


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    1:00 - 1:30pm


    Phone: 713.639.7800

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