Latest News | 1 September 2021
Chatsworth drawings featured in new exhibition
A historic collection of master drawings by world-famous artists owned by Chatsworth House, part of The Devonshire Group, are being featured in a major new exhibition.
More than 60 old master drawings by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck and more, are featuring in Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth.
Now on display at The Lightbox, in Woking, it is the largest exhibition of these rare wonders for more than 20 years.
Amassed by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dukes of Devonshire, the Chatsworth collection of old master drawings comprises around 1,800 works by some of the most important artists of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.
When the collection was originally established over 300 years ago, viewing of these works would have been reserved for the social elites of the time.
Today, a small selection of drawings is normally displayed on rotation in the purpose-built Old Master Drawings Cabinet created in 2012 at Chatsworth.
Opportunities to see them en masse remain limited due to the need to safeguard them from light damage. As such, only a small selection of works is usually available to view at any one time.
