Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Frances Fowle

Professor of Nineteenth-Century Art at the University of Edinburgh and Senior Curator of French Art at the National Galleries of Scotland

2 episodes

Covers topics in categories such as:

CultureFrench atheistsLegion of Honour refusals20th-century male artistsFrench Impressionist painters, 19th-century French paintersDutch expatriates in FranceDutch landscape paintersArtists who died by suicide

  1. Monet in England

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why the French impressionist Claude Monet painted the foggy Thames in central London more often than water lilies, haystacks or Rouen Cathedral.

    27 June 2024

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    Also featuring: Karen Serres, Jackie Wullschläger

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    CultureFrench atheistsLegion of Honour refusals20th-century male artistsFrench Impressionist painters, 19th-century French painters

  2. Vincent van Gogh

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the career of the Dutch artist celebrated after his death for his paintings of sunflowers and starry nights but selling only one work in his life.

    21 December 2023

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    Also featuring: Christopher Riopelle, Martin Bailey

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    CultureDutch expatriates in FranceDutch landscape paintersArtists who died by suicide