Most of us are up for blockbuster exhibitions: the kinds that draw the crowds, cost a fortune, and give you bragging rights for attending. But there is, you know, a place in the great scheme of things for small exhibitions, a show of pieces that a gallery already possesses but which don’t get out much, or which cast a fresh eye on an artist we’re familiar with.
And it’s that latter sort that we get at the Wallace Collection, which is staging a little show in the room behind the gift shop of 10 watercolours of Turner and his lesser known, younger contemporary, the Anglo-French artist Richard Parkes Bonington.
