I love Kenwood House and have been coming here since I was a very small child. My father was a portrait painter and I was tested on my art history every Sunday from the age of five. At Kenwood it was all about Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, especially their portraits of children, like this one,
Miss Murray by Lawrence.
On a recent visit I got chatting to one of the knowledgeable volunteer guides and he suggested that I meet Kenwood’s head hooter, ‘he’s a wonderful man – a stereotypical curator’. I asked what a stereotypical curator looked like in his mind. He described this man:
Kenwood’s charismatic and sartorially impeccable boss, Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski. Bear with me, I’m getting to the point – you can meet Jerzy and hear him give the low-down on the building and the collection most Fridays between 1-2pm (great little lunchtime getaway).
He’s there today and next week and every Friday in March. Tickets cost £12 and can be bought on the day if available.
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