Moonlit lake with a ruined castle among dark trees

Lady in a gold silk gown seated by a stone column

Exhibitions

What's on

Three temporary rooms, three exhibitions a year. One is always open, the next is always being hung.

Now showing, until 17 January 2027

The Quiet Table

Basket of red apples spilling onto the grass beneath a tree

No. 087

Apples under a tree

Oil on canvas, Room V

Sunlit breakfast room, a woman reading the paper at a laid table

No. 093

Breakfast in a garden room

Oil on canvas, Room VI

Grapes, peaches and a cut melon heaped on a marble ledge

No. 101

Fruit on a marble ledge

Oil on canvas, Room VII

Breakfast tables, window seats and fruit left out on a ledge. Forty paintings across three rooms about the hours when nothing much happens, and the painters who stayed in the room to watch the light move.

Dates 12 September 2026 to 17 January 2027
Where Rooms V, VI and VII, first floor
Entry Included with admission, timed slots at weekends

Read the exhibition Book a time

Coming next

Being hung now

Members see each exhibition first, on the evening before it opens.

Fleet of sailing ships firing in a smoky grey sea

Opens 6 February 6 February to 30 May 2027

Weather over Water

Forty sea paintings, from calm harbour mornings to ships in a squall. The rooms are hung low, so the horizon of every picture sits at your eye level, and benches face the biggest storms.

Rooms V to VII, first floor
A listening room with recorded sea weather
Sketching stools at every bench

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Portrait of a man in a red turban against a dark ground

Opens 19 June 19 June to 26 September 2027

Faces in Half Light

Portraits painted by a single window or a candle, shown in rooms lit almost as dimly as the studios they came from. Give your eyes a minute: the faces arrive slowly.