This is a zoom event open to non members :
Monday 20th November 7.30pm Virtual Heritage Group via Zoom
(No charge for members or non-members - email [email protected] for Zoom log in details)
In this talk Chris Baker will first introduce his research on who was Petit, uncovering his family’s important position in the region’s landholding gentry, and especially his land holdings at Ettingshall. Then Philip Modiano FSA, chairman of the Petit Society, will explain why Petit has been called ‘the greatest discovery in British Art for a generation’, painting way ahead of his time - a Pre-Impressionist - as in his latest book on Petit, and specifically detail the significance of his Black Country landscapes. Lastly he will explain how far he has got in his one man campaign to get the Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Council to promote heritage including Petit and Butler Bayliss, practically ignored until now.
Monday 20th November 7.30pm Virtual Heritage Group via Zoom
(No charge for members or non-members - email [email protected] for Zoom log in details)
In this talk Chris Baker will first introduce his research on who was Petit, uncovering his family’s important position in the region’s landholding gentry, and especially his land holdings at Ettingshall. Then Philip Modiano FSA, chairman of the Petit Society, will explain why Petit has been called ‘the greatest discovery in British Art for a generation’, painting way ahead of his time - a Pre-Impressionist - as in his latest book on Petit, and specifically detail the significance of his Black Country landscapes. Lastly he will explain how far he has got in his one man campaign to get the Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Council to promote heritage including Petit and Butler Bayliss, practically ignored until now.
