Lawyers come Face to Face with Dorset's Past

Local law firm Humphries Kirk LLP is pleased to be amongst the main sponsors of a forthcoming exhibition,Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County.

The exhibition which has been put together by the Dorset County Museum opens on 15 January 2011 and runs until the 30^th of April and will include over sixty, mostly previously unseen, portraits of the people who shaped Dorset during the eighteenth century.

For the past year, curator Gwen Yarker (formerly of the Maritime Museum) has been selecting portraits for the exhibition from all over Dorset and further afield.  Some paintings are coming on loan from national institutions, but the majority will come from private collections.  

Barry White, Business Development Manager at Humphries Kirk said, “The Dorset County Museum are to be commended for establishing this exhibition which bears testament to the history of Dorset and its people, as both an inspiration to artists and as people of influence at the forefront of the latest ideas and thinking of the time".

The exhibition will show portraits by most of the important portrait artists of the eighteenth century, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Thomas Gainsborough and Allan Ramsay.

Georgian Faces will also include a series of cut-out silhouettes produced by George III’s daughter, Princess Elizabeth, during her friendship with local diarist and botanist Mary Frampton.

For further details of the event visit the Dorset County Museum website at www.dorsetcountymuseum.org or telephone 01305 262735.

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