Tuesday 5 September 2023 – Dr Amy Orrock, ‘Rubens and Women’
Dr Amy Orrock is an art historian and curator who has published and lectured widely on northern European art of the 16th and 17th centuries. She first became fascinated by Bruegel as an undergraduate at University College London and then completed her PhD on Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the University of Edinburgh. In 2017 she co-curated the exhibition Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty at The Holburne Museum. Amy is currently senior curator at Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park, where she has curated the exhibitions Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud (2019) and Cranach: Artist and Innovator (2020-21). Amy’s Arts Society lectures include: Who was Bruegel? Discovering the Master through his Sons and Bruegel’s Winter Scenes.