Cocktails with a Curator: Lawrence's "Lady Peel"

Hello from Lawrence, Kansas and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas!

Hello from Pittsburgh, home to another Frick collection and good cocktails:)

Thank you

AIMEE, ALWAYS CAN EXPECT A LOVELY TALK FROM YOU

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I enjoyed the tone that Aimee gives to Lady Peel's profile. It really touched me. Thank you for sharing those details about Lady Peel that help think about a subject of being a person, woman and wife in a different way.

Oh, Aimee! Thank you so much. This is among my favorite paintings at The Frick, and I learned so much from your thoughtful presentation.

I know I should address you as Doctor Ng, but you have visited me in my home so often that I think of you as "Aimee" beautiful Aimee. Thank you so much for this wonderful discussion I absolutely enjoyed it. I need to go and find a biography of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Perhaps we can include something like this in each of your talks ?

Just love Fridays at the Frick, Thank you & Cheers,🎨🍸

Thank you for a good introduction to this work. I like the fact you stood up for women who had little choice as to what they might be during this period. Looking forward to trying this evenings drink.

Thank you Aimee! Luca and Stefania from Rome, Italy.

She suffered great losses. She was devoted, loyal and beautiful.

Thank you, Aimee! Every Friday the Frick opens for me, a whole new world. Like the other Fans of Frick, I’m off to find a biography of Thomas Lawrence and more information about Sir Robert Peel. Elizabeth in Victoria, Canada 🇨🇦

Every your episode is as if a lesson of history. First i looked at this portrait as at one of another rich woman. In the end of your narrative i admired her . Now I have to read and learn more about all these people. Your videos urge me to be curious and study English as well. Thank you!

Thank you Aimee, Julia's portrait by Sr Thomas Lawrence left a lasting impression on me the last time I visited the Frick some years ago. You have enhanced the pleasure as well as a deeper understanding of the work and those involved.

Looking forward to next week's presentation.

Bravo! I always appreciate comments about compositional elements and techniques i.e. the painting as a work of art in addition to the historical context.

Thank you, Aimee! Always appreciate your style and perspective.

Another fascinating and engaging talk, thank you Ms Ng - while it's true that the police in the UK were and still are referred to as 'bobbies', they are also, though perhaps to a lesser extent nowadays, called 'peelers', also in homage to Robert Peel.

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing your insight into this beautiful painting.

Just a wonderful illumination of Lawrence, Peel and Lady Peel. And, as always, conveyed in a perfect conversational tone, as if we were in front of the portrait, cocktails in hand, learning about this terrific painting and its provenance. Great, inspiring stuff.

Lovely, Thank you really enjoy it.

Nice bracelets.

Amazing... the "straw" hat portrait looks just like Bette Davis... Thanks for all of these presentations, Aimee!

Dear Aimee, thank you! Love this portrait and so glad to know more about it.

What an amazing portrait helped, in no small part by the elegance and beauty of the sitter. Such detail so arresting. Pity not to know more about Sir Thomas Lawrence but I'm left feeling more appreciative of his work. Thank you.

Love this series! I don't do the cocktails part, but I love the little lectures. Mrs. Peel was similar to a First Lady in the US, and that is not unimportant at all!

I look forward to these every week. And thank you for presenting Lady Peel as a woman who embraced her role as a support for her husband, and was happy within it. It's so important that we understand and appreciate historical context rather than disparage others' choices or circumstances that occurred hundreds of years ago when the world was so different. This portrait is incredible, and I long to see it in person once the Frick is re-opened. Thank you Aimee!

Thank you Ms Ng for yet another delightful and informative insight I always enjoy your expertise . By the way the police were also called Peelers in the early days .

The quality of the painting perfectly mirrored by the quality of the talk. Thank you for another gem!

I really enjoyed this session, especially the last part that Ms. Ng highly praises Lady Peel and I like the painting even more.

A superb talk. Your appreciation of the sensibilities at the time, of her commitment to her role as she saw it, are hugely welcome. Delightful presentation of a brilliantly evocative portrait.

I just can’t get over her eyes

I love these curatorial discussions so much. Growing up in NYC, I spent a lot of time at the Frick, often followed by a stroll down Fifth Avenue for tea at the Pierre. But having a cocktail with Aimee is joy - so lovely, so articulate, and always with great insight. Thank you SO very much.

Imagine my surprise and pleasure at seeing the Frick Collection as a set piece for the HBO series “the Undoing.” It seems that the artworks used not only provided atmosphere for scenes but clues to the mystery. Have you seen this show and could you illuminate the use of certain pieces in the story? Thank you for featuring one of my favorite portraits in this cocktail party. I raise my glass of Prosecco to you.

On Monday(7th December 2020) I read the obituary of Irina Antonova in the Times, Irina had been the Director of the Puskin Museum of Fine Art in Moscow for a long time. Irina also gave lectures at the Dante Library in Moscow which she described: "These are not classic lectures on art history, say, from Giotto to Caravaggio, no. I have always wanted to captivate with art, and not dryly state facts that can be read in an encyclopaedia". That quote of hers is how I find the various Curator Travels and Cocktails.

This was my favorite session. It was spoken with such a passion, this painting must truly means a lot to her. Well, it’s my favorite now.

i love these videos. Amazing, Aimee!

Superb talk! Thank you.

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Ma Ng, your presentation was wonderful, especially because you expressed an appreciation for the contributions of Lady Peele and her inherent dignity and beauty.

"As if a landscape could leave a scent." This is such a fabulous series, Aimee, I love how you speak about each painting, I really feel it.

Most enjoyable and perhaps the most poignant rationale for the non-working wife I've heard in a while. 'She also serves who only stands and waits'. Gorgeous portrait.

I never cease to be amazed by the way in which you combine the highest standards of scholarship with absolute accessibility for those of us who are not art historians! Please keep this series going forever, even after Covid!

That's some bad hat, Julia. :) And cheers to that Thanos's glove's ancestor.

You are just the best. What a lovely lady she was. I enjoyed this very much!

Thank you!

Lovely that you stood up for the ladies behind the famous men ;)

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The talk was as lovely as the portrait. Thank you :)