Artist and art historian Martin Beek will examine Millais’s lifelong association with Perthshire and its hauntingly beautiful landscapes. Following the huge public success of ‘Chill October”, a haunting windswept Tayside view at Kinfauns. Millais went on to paint a further twenty-five large-scale autumnal and wintry landscapes. These paintings are now seen as a high point of Millais’s later career. Martin illustrated this history and artworks with location photographs from Birnam, Murthly, Strathbraan and Tayside. This talk will be a fascinating tour of Perthshire through the eyes of Victorian Britain’s most celebrated painter.

Biography

Martin Beek is both a practising artist and an art historian. He recently gave a series of talks on Artists’ Collectives for Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, which included two talks on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 2024, Martin led a course at Marlborough College summer school entitled “The Genius of Victorian Painting. 1870-90.’” He has also recently lectured on Sir Edwin Landseer’s “The Monarch of the Glen” at the Ellis Theatre in Marlborough.

Martin regularly gives a wide range of online art historical lectures for Ardington School of Crafts, and he also actively leads artistic groups in Oxfordshire. Martin has a passion for bringing art history alive with original research and location photos. Martin lives in Oxford.

Please arrive no earlier than 10 minutes before the start time.