{"id":11515,"date":"2026-03-12T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posk.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=11515"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:23:53","slug":"09-04-frick-the-man-his-museum-lecture-by-mark-meredith","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/event\/09-04-frick-the-man-his-museum-lecture-by-mark-meredith\/","title":{"rendered":"09.04| Frick: The Man &#038; His Museum &#8211; lecture by Mark Meredith."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Frick: The Man &amp; His Museum &#8211; lecture by Mark Meredith.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Shot twice in the neck and stabbed five times in the leg, Mr Frick was back behind his desk within the week.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>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?<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>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.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/><span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t7e\/1\/16\/1f4c5.png\" alt=\"&#x1f4c5;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span>\u00a09 April 2026<br class=\"html-br\" \/><span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t34\/1\/16\/23f0.png\" alt=\"&#x23f0;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span>\u00a08.00 pm<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>More info:\u00a0<span class=\"html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\"><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xkrqix3 x1sur9pj x1fey0fg x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/theartssocietychiswick.org.uk\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBEwTEYzMDRDNFFPQkVYZkFpM3NydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5NZYiEBu8AMiRm9SCbnKorxQeITqNNS1vOjCbXOoWYXUT-_YbYJrMSky1wyQ_aem_C6Z4u_6uu9MEFI0WS5N8ZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">theartssocietychiswick.org.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frick: The Man &amp; His Museum &#8211; lecture by Mark Meredith.Shot twice&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11512,"template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[174],"class_list":["post-11515","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-meeting","cat_meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11516,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11515\/revisions\/11516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11515"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}