Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 11th November 2026

Time: 7.30

Venue: Science Lecture Theatre, Winchester College, Kingsgate Street, Winchester, SO23 9PF

Description: The Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones (1743-1803) spent seven years in Italy, the first four in Rome where he met his Danish wife, Maria Moncke, and the last three in Naples where they raised their two daughters before returning to Britain. His extraordinarily 'modern' oil-on-paper paintings which are in many British public collections continue to attract interest from art historians, but the study of his complete household accounts from Naples reveals a more intimate story of the ties of both affection and service within a Grand Tour family. Professor Calaresu says: 'I am a cultural historian who originally trained as a historian of political thought for my PhD in Cambridge, after undergraduate and Master's degrees in Canada. My work moves between my interests in material culture and the urban environment with the history of ideas in early modern Italy. I am currently writing a cultural history of the urban experience of the Welsh landscape artist Thomas Jones in Rome and Naples in the 1780s.'

How to book: Directions and details of the Zoom link if required, will be available from the secretary nearer the date of the lecture

Price: Free to members, £5 for visitors

Tel: 01962 852594

Fax: 07973427914 (mobile)

Email: historicalassocwinchester@outlook.com

Organiser: Winchester branch

Lecturer: Professor Melissa Calaresu,  Professor of History, University of Cambridge, and Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College

Region: South-East England

Branch: Winchester