Event date: Tuesday 12 May 2026
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Join Desmond Shawe-Taylor to explore the rich tradition of comic painting. Images and jokes go together - as cartoons demonstrate - yet we often miss the comedy in the Old Masters. The Dutch painters of the golden age are some of the funniest, but their work draws on comic painting from the previous century and in turn inspires a British tradition, dominated by the work of William Hogarth.