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Please note that some areas of our site will be closed to the public on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 December due to high winds. The Christmas Present Trail will be running as normal.

Christmas Opening Times
We will be open as usual except for the following dates – Christmas Eve – 10am – 3pm, Christmas Day and Boxing Day – Closed, New Years Eve – 10am – 3pm

Two large bronze sculptures in an outdoor park. The larger sculpture depicts a muscular male figure in a dynamic, twisting pose. The smaller sculpture in the foreground appears to be an abstract form with smooth, undulating shapes.

Past exhibitions
at
Compton Verney

2004

2005

  • Only Make-Believe
  • Salvator Rosa: Wild Landscapes
  • The American West
  • Luc Tuymans and Susan Hiller: The Go-Between & The J-Street Project
  • Francis Bacon and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

2006

  • Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors
  • The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe
  • Richard Billingham: Zoo
  • Vive La Parisienne: Women through the eyes of the Impressionists

2007

  • Opulence & Anxiety: Landscape Paintings from the Royal Academy of Arts
  • The Shadow
  • Georges de la Tour: Master of Candlelight
  • The Naked Portrait: 1900 – 2007

2008

  • Alberto Giacometti
  • James Coleman
  • Special Display – Portraits from Chequers: Kings, Queens and Revolutionaries
  • The Fabric of Myth
  • Oskar Kokoschka: Exile and New Home 1938 – 1980
  • Jack B. Yeats: Masquerade and Spectacle: the Circus and the Travelling Fair

2009

  • Fatal Attraction: Diana and Actaeon – The Forbidden Gaze
  • Georgian Portraits: Seeing is Believing
  • Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle
  • The Artist’s Studio

2010

  • Francis Bacon: In Camera
  • Volcano: Turner to Warhol
  • Kurt Tong: In Case it Rains in Heaven

2011

  • Wool Work: A Sailor’s Art
  • Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson
  • What the Folk Say: Contemporary Artist Interventions
  • Capability Brown and the Landscapes of Middle England
  • Stanley Spencer and the English Garden
  • Remember, Remember: A History of Fireworks in Britain
  • Quentin Blake – As Large as Life

2012

  • Into the Light: French and British Painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s
  • Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations
  • The Image of a King
  • Flight and the Artistic Imagination
  • Tapestry: Weaving the Century at Dovecot Studios 1912 – 2012

2013

  • Bellini, Botticelli, Titian: 500 Years of Italian Art
  • Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature: Works from the Tate Collection
  • Reviewing the Landscape: A Contemporary Response
  • A Fantastical Animal Alphabet
  • Curious Beasts: Animal Prints from the British Museum

2014

  • Moore Rodin. Find out more
  • Art from Ammunition: Trench Art from the First World War
  • British Folk Art Exhibition

2015

  • The Non-Conformists: Photographs by Martin Parr
  • Canaletto: Celebrating Britain. Find out more
  • The National Gallery Masterpiece Display: Canaletto’s ‘A Regatta on the Grand Canal’
  • The Hart Silversmiths: A Living Tradition
  • The Arts & Crafts House: Then and Now
  • Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements

2016

  • Shakespeare in Art: Tempests, Tyrants and Tragedy
  • Boydell’s Vision: The Shakespeare Gallery in the 18th Century
  • The Fifties Allotment
  • BBC Faces of Comedy
  • Britain in the Fifties: Design and Aspiration
  • Queen Victoria in Paris: Watercolours from the Royal Collection
  • Picasso on Paper

2017

  • Creating the Countryside: Thomas Gainsborough to Today
  • Unsilencing the Library
  • Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception – Pattern, pointillism & Op art
  • The Lost Words. Find out more
  • Quentin Blake: Inside Stories

2018

  • Created in Conflict: British Soldier Art from the Crimean War to Today
  • Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship. English Artist Designers 1922-1942
  • Six Artists Celebrate: Six Artists Celebrate Enid Marx and The British Folk Art Collection
  • The Marvellous Mechanical Museum
  • Rodney Peppé’s World of Invention
  • Whistler and Nature

2019

  • Childhood Now
  • Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud
  • Green Dwelling: Art in the Park
  • A Tea Journey: From the Mountains to the Table
  • This Is Us
  • Magnum Manifesto
  • Ariel Schlesinger: Ways To Say Goodbye

2020

  • Cranach: Artist and Innovator
  • The Open Arms

2021

  • Rebecca Louise Law: Seasons – A journey through nature. Find out more
  • Mary Newcomb: Nature’s Canvas
  • Art Night at Compton Verney
  • Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making. Find out more
  • John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace
  • The Digital Biosphere

2022

2023

2024