Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings
Discover the Brilliant Women of the 18th Century at the National Portrait Gallery
'Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings' is a new exhibition being held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Brilliant Women explores the impact of the original 'Bluestocking' Circle - a group of intellectual women who were celebrated for forging new links between gender, learning and virtue in eighteenth-century Britain.
With famous masterpieces and rarely seen portraits, graphic satires and other personal artefacts, this exhibition considers the way a wider range of 'bluestockings', such as the artist Angelica Kauffmann, historian Catharine Macaulay and early 'feminist' Mary Wollstonecraft, used portraiture to advance their work and their reputations in a period framed by Enlightenment and Revolution.
The exhibition runs from March 13th until June 15th and is open daily from 10am to 6pm, except on Thursday when the gallery is open till 9pm. Find out more about free events at the National Portrait Gallery.
How to get there
The closest tube and train station to Trafalgar Square is Charring Cross. If on the bus the 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 29, 53, 87, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176 and the 453 all serve Trafalgar Square.
