This event is exclusively for Wallace Collection Members, Benefactors, and Legators. Please book tickets via the Members' Area.

Date: Monday 12 June 2023
Time: 18.30 - 19.30 BST; exhibition open from 17.30
Location: At the museum
Speaker: Dr Xavier Bray

Description: Join Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace Collection and co-curator of Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney, for our Annual Evening Talk. Dr Bray will share with us his vision for the exhibition and how the magnificent dog portraits – be they paintings, sculptures, drawings or works of art – were selected.

The exhibition will be open from 17.30, for ticket holders only, to have a private look before the beginning of the talk at 18.30. Please note - the Wallace Collection will close at 17.00 before ticket holders are re-admitted. 

Benefactors and Legators are invited to a reception after the talk.

To book your free tickets, click here to book online.

If you are not yet a Member of The Wallace Collection and would like to join, click here to find out more. 

Or for more information about becoming a Benefactor of the Wallace Collection, click here.

Photo Credit: David Hockney, Dog Painting 30, 1995, oil on canvas, 10 3/4 x 8 3/4” © David Hockney Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt Collection The David Hockney Foundation