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Established in 1994, THE COURSE offers exciting and innovative lectures in the History of Art, Literature, Music and Opera.
In “Foreigners in London”, Leslie Primo will discuss why the aristocracy preferred foreign painters to native-born English ones? Why did foreigners come in the first place? What was their motivation and what was the impact of foreigners on English art and art practice? This course will trace foreign artists from the Tudors to the Neo-Classical looking at their origins and how they came to work in England.
DANIEL MYTENS Denizen of England
Before van Dyck and Rubens, there was Daniel Mytens the painter from The Hague. We will explore his life at the court of James I and subsequently Charles I, look at his training and influences, his rise to fame at the English court, the introduction of his new Renaissance/Baroque style of painting to the London aristocracy and his involvement with the Earl and Countess of Arundel.