Past exhibitions
at
Compton Verney
2004
- Peter Greenaway – Luper at Compton Verney. Find out more
2005
- Only Make-Believe Find out more
- Salvator Rosa: Wild Landscapes Find out more
- The American West Find out more
- Luc Tuymans and Susan Hiller: The Go-Between & The J-Street Project Find out more
- Francis Bacon and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt Find out more
2006
- Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors Find out more
- The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe Find out more
- Richard Billingham: Zoo Find out more
- Vive La Parisienne: Women through the eyes of the Impressionists Find out more
2007
- Opulence & Anxiety: Landscape Paintings from the Royal Academy of Arts Find out more
- The Shadow Find out more
- Georges de la Tour: Master of Candlelight Find out more
- The Naked Portrait: 1900 – 2007 Find out more
2008
- Alberto Giacometti Find out more
- James Coleman Find out more
- Special Display – Portraits from Chequers: Kings, Queens and Revolutionaries Find out more
- The Fabric of Myth Find out more
- Oskar Kokoschka: Exile and New Home 1938 – 1980 Find out more
- Jack B. Yeats: Masquerade and Spectacle: the Circus and the Travelling Fair Find out more
2009
- Fatal Attraction: Diana and Actaeon – The Forbidden Gaze Find out more
- Georgian Portraits: Seeing is Believing Find out more
- Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle Find out more
- The Artist’s Studio Find out more
2010
- Francis Bacon: In Camera Find out more
- Volcano: Turner to Warhol Find out more
- Kurt Tong: In Case it Rains in Heaven Find out more
2011
- Wool Work: A Sailor’s Art Find out more
- Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson Find out more
- What the Folk Say: Contemporary Artist Interventions Find out more
- Capability Brown and the Landscapes of Middle England Find out more
- Stanley Spencer and the English Garden Find out more
- Remember, Remember: A History of Fireworks in Britain Find out more
- Quentin Blake – As Large as Life Find out more
2012
- Into the Light: French and British Painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s Find out more
- Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations Find out more
- The Image of a King Find out more
- Flight and the Artistic Imagination Find out more
- Tapestry: Weaving the Century at Dovecot Studios 1912 – 2012 Find out more
2013
- Bellini, Botticelli, Titian: 500 Years of Italian Art Find out more
- Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature: Works from the Tate Collection Find out more
- Reviewing the Landscape: A Contemporary Response Find out more
- A Fantastical Animal Alphabet Find out more
- Curious Beasts: Animal Prints from the British Museum Find out more
2014
- Moore Rodin. Find out more
- Art from Ammunition: Trench Art from the First World War Find out more
- British Folk Art Exhibition Find out more
2015
- The Non-Conformists: Photographs by Martin Parr Find out more
- Canaletto: Celebrating Britain. Find out more
- The National Gallery Masterpiece Display: Canaletto’s ‘A Regatta on the Grand Canal’ Find out more
- The Hart Silversmiths: A Living Tradition Find out more
- The Arts & Crafts House: Then and Now Find out more
- Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements Find out more
2016
- Shakespeare in Art: Tempests, Tyrants and Tragedy Find out more
- Boydell’s Vision: The Shakespeare Gallery in the 18th Century Find out more
- The Fifties Allotment Find out more
- BBC Faces of Comedy Find out more
- Britain in the Fifties: Design and Aspiration Find out more
- Queen Victoria in Paris: Watercolours from the Royal Collection Find out more
- Picasso on Paper Find out more
2017
- Creating the Countryside: Thomas Gainsborough to Today Find out more
- Unsilencing the Library Find out more
- Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception – Pattern, pointillism & Op art Find out more
- The Lost Words. Find out more
- Quentin Blake: Inside Stories Find out more
2018
- Created in Conflict: British Soldier Art from the Crimean War to Today Find out more
- Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship. English Artist Designers 1922-1942 Find out more
- Six Artists Celebrate: Six Artists Celebrate Enid Marx and The British Folk Art Collection Find out more
- The Marvellous Mechanical Museum Find out more
- Rodney Peppé’s World of Invention Find out more
- Whistler and Nature Find out more
2019
- Childhood Now Find out more
- Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud Find out more
- Green Dwelling: Art in the Park Find out more
- A Tea Journey: From the Mountains to the Table Find out more
- This Is Us
- Magnum Manifesto Find out more
- Ariel Schlesinger: Ways To Say Goodbye Find out more
2020
- Cranach: Artist and Innovator Find out more
- The Open Arms Find out more
2021
- Rebecca Louise Law: Seasons – A journey through nature. Find out more
- Mary Newcomb: Nature’s Canvas Find out more
- Art Night at Compton Verney Find out more
- Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making. Find out more
- John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace Find out more
- The Digital Biosphere Find out more
2022
- Women’s Library : Guest Curators Find out more
- Through the Lens of Masterji. Find out more
- Portrait Artist of the Year: The Exhibition. Find out more
- Morag Myerscough. Find out more
- Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery. Find out more
- Magnum Photos: Where Ideas are Born. Find out more
- David Batchelor: Colour Is. Find out more
- Luke Jerram: Crossings. Find out more
- Portrait Miniatures: Highlights from the Grantchester Collection. Find out more
- Reena Kallat: Common Ground. Find out more
- Dutch Flowers. Find out more
2023
- Tudor Mystery: A Master Painter Revealed. Find out more
- Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain. Find out more
- Compton Verney and Coventry Biennial Exhibition and Residency. Find out more
- Living Symphonies. Find out more
- Quentin Blake: Birds, Beasts and Explorers. Find out more
- Birds of America. Find out more
- Jo Gane: Liquid Silver. Find out more
- History in the Making: Stories of materials and makers, 2000BC to now. Find out more
2024
- Sensing Vesuvius. Find out more
- Landscape and Imagination: From Gardens to Land Art Find out more
- A Spirit Inside Find out more
- Louise Bourgeois: Nature Study Find out more
- Reunited: The Lamentation Altarpiece Find out more
- The Reflected Self: Portrait Miniatures, 1540-1850 Find out more
- Chila Kumari Singh Burman: Spectacular Diversions Find out more
2025
- Marshmallow Laser Feast: Breathing with the Forest Find out more
- Emii Alrai: River of Black Stone Find out more