Image of The Black at The Wallace Collection
Sun, Oct 18
|The Wallace Collection
Two hour unscripted tour of The Wallace Collection to reveal the implicit and explicit Black presence in the collection
Time & Location
Oct 18, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN, UK
About the Event
Cover Image Govaert Flinck (c1639) A Young Archer (detail)
The Wallace Collection is one of the world’s great individual art collections. Hidden in its collection of over 5,500 works there are many Black presences, most times hidden.
The Image of the Black in the Wallace Collection is a live, in person unscripted two-hour introduction to the open, and often hidden black presence to be found in the collection, from subjects of economic capital to creators of cultural capital.
You’ll be taken around the Collection introduced you to many different works revealing Black subjects of economic capital, creators of cultural capital, kings & kingdoms, musicians, princesses, slaves, servants, saints and inspirations. You'll be introduced to the religious, cultural and social significance of the Black presences in he Wallace Collection. If you want to understand this presence in one of the great collections of 18th and 19th century art in the home of the connoisseur who brought this sumptuous…
Tickets
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£16.00
+£0.40 ticket service fee
Total
£0.00