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Lecture: The Glasgow Boys Lecturer: Alice Foster Wednesday 21 October 2026

2.00pm to 3.30pm

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Glasgow-based but not all native to Glasgow - at the end of the nineteenth century these painters benefitted from the success of industry and its wealthy patrons. The painters were well aware of radical trends in Paris, particularly the simplified forms of the Post Impressionists. They wanted to be free of anecdote in their work and to be allowed to concentrate on colour and light, and brushwork appropriate to their subjects. Guthrie, Lavery, Crawhall and Arthur Melville are among those discussed.

Alice has lectured for Oxford University Department of Continuing Education since 1998. She lectures regularly at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. Her busy freelance career includes organising History of Art study days with colleagues, and regular weekly classes in Oxfordshire and Worcestershire. Alice has lectured for the Arts Society in Britain and Europe and undertakes tours of Australia and New Zealand.