Frick: The Man & His Museum – lecture by Mark Meredith.

Shot twice in the neck and stabbed five times in the leg, Mr Frick was back behind his desk within the week.

Today, his name is synonymous with beauty and culture through the house on which he spared nothing, built with the sole intent of leaving it, and everything in it, as a gift to the nation. But just who was Henry Clay Frick, and how did this man who swapped a beehive oven for the classroom become the most prominent art collector of his generation in America, and the benefactor of its finest collection of European paintings?

Join me on another astonishing ride from rural Pennsylvania to Gilded Age New York as we pull back the curtain on Frick: the man, and his museum.

 9 April 2026
 8.00 pm

More info: theartssocietychiswick.org.uk