Temporary Exhibitions Gallery

The Fitzwilliam Collection was started in around 1630 by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford and a minister to Charles I of England. The forthcoming exhibition and its selected works will allow us to identify points of clear contact with the collection put together over more than five decades by Calouste Gulbenkian, and will include portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre art and religious paintings. Sculptures, prints and drawings will also help to recreate the background to the development of the aforementioned collection up until the present day. It will feature compositions by George Stubbs, a painter who is little known in Portugal but highly renowned in the United Kingdom, and his depictions of horses, which were the source of his fame in the 18th century, certainly leave no doubt as to his talent. Fifty-six works by Anton van Dyck, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Canaletto, Claude Lorrain, Claude Joseph Vernet, Aert van der Neer, William van de Velde II, Jan van Goyen, Hans Memling and Salomon van Ruysdael, among others, will be shown for the first time in our country, giving the public the chance to see works that are normally kept within a private collection.