Curator’s Introduction to Keeping Time: Clocks by Boulle

The Wallace Collection is home to an exceptional group of fascinating timepieces, which are brought together for the first time in our display, Keeping Time: Clocks by Boulle. Join curator, Alexander Collins, to learn how André-Charles Boulle, cabinetmaker to the Sun King, Louis XIV, fused bold baroque design and sumptuous ornament with groundbreaking mechanisms made by leading clockmakers.
 
About the speaker: Alexander Collins is Curator of Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection. Previously, he was Assistant Curator for Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney and Leverhulme Fellow for the prestigious Riesener Project, in which he researched the furniture of Jean-Henri Riesener and contributed to the Project’s monograph and digital resources. Alexander was also Decorative Arts Curatorial Intern at the Royal Collection.