Lecture on George Cattermole

Saturday 18 February: Lecture on George Cattermole (1800-1868) by Professor Leonee Ormond. West Norwood, at Chatsworth Baptist Church, Chatsworth Way (off Norwood Road, SE27, 2.30pm start. Free, but donations welcome.

The artist George Cattermole specialised in scenes of chivalry and medievalism. He was related by marriage to Charles Dickens, for whom he contributed illustrations for Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop. Leonee Ormond is Professor of Victorian Studies at King’s College London, and has published books on Frederic Lord Leighton, Linley Sambourne, and George Du Maurier. She is an author of Dickens and the Artists, which is to be published by Yale University Press in June 2012.