Participation in the AGM is free of charge but registration is required. Please register by clicking the “book now” button.
The meeting will last approximately 20 minutes and it will be followed at 7 pm by the lecture A Journey Through Italian Citrus and the Bistro of Original Eau de Cologne, by Nicola Pozzani.
If you wish to attend the lecture following the AGM, please book separately by heading the relevant event page. Thank you
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Nicola Pozzani is an award-winning fragrance creator and educator. Trained by Master Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena he started his career with fragrance house Symrise before working for brands such as LVMH Acqua di Parma, Le Labo, BMW and The Merchant of Venice amongst others. Long-time Bespoke Perfumer for Floris London, he won a Fragrance Foundation Award and got to create for Queen Elizabeth II. Nicola shares his passion as guest lecturer of Slade School of Fine Arts UCL, Bern University of the Arts and ISIPCA – Universita’ di Padova. He is Associate Member and regular Guest Speaker of the British Society of Perfumers.
Save the date for our 85th Anniversary Celebration and pre-Christmas drinks, held at the House of Lords.
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Queen‘s House, Greenwich
A Curator-Led Visit & Demonstration of
Canaletto’s Use of the Camera Obscura
with
Professor Philip Steadman
Architect and Author of Canaletto’s Camera
Dr Allison Goodie
Curator
Dr Maya Wassell Smith
Assistant Curator
This exclusive members‑only event offers the opportunity to step inside England’s first Classical building, designed by Inigo Jones and inspired by the Renaissance architecture of the Veneto and Andrea Palladio, for a fascinating afternoon at the Queens’ House concluding with tea on the balcony. Small groups will be led by a team of curators to explore the house and some of the highlights of its collection, followed by a demonstration on how Canaletto may have used the camera obscura to achieve the remarkable precision of his celebrated views of London and Venice.
Professor Philip Steadman – Emeritus Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at University College London. He trained as an architect and has taught at Cambridge University and the Open University. In the 1960s he edited and published Form, a quarterly magazine of the arts, and co-authored a book on kinetic art. He helped to produce four computer-animated films on the work of Leonardo da Vinci for an exhibition in London in 1989. In 2001 he published Vermeer’s Camera (Oxford University Press), on the Dutch painter’s use of the camera obscura. His latest book, Canaletto’s Camera (UCL Press), published in 2025, is a kind of sequel.
Dr Allison Goudie – Curator of Art Pre-1750 at Royal Museums Greenwich. Prior to this, she worked as a curator at the National Gallery, London, the National Trust and Kenwood House. She completed her PhD at Oxford in 2014 on portraits of Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples, and held, among other research fellowships, a Rome Award at the British School at Rome.
Dr Maya Wassell Smith – Assistant Curator of Art at Royal Museums Greenwich, working primarily with the Decorative Arts. She has previously held positions at Newham Borough Collections, SS Great Britain Museum, and Leeds Museum and Art Galleries. She completed her PhD in 2026 on sailors’ craftwork in the long nineteenth century.
A join event with The Venice in Peril Fund
Photo credits: By Bill Bertram – https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=691705