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
• Towering Dreams: Extraordinary Architectural Drawings Find out more
• Emma Talbot: How We Learn to Love Find out more