Join Country Life contributor Patrick Monahan and a group of distinguished panelists to answer this and other pressing art collecting questions and to support the Society of Antiquaries of London’s appeal to secure 999 years at Burlington House!

Patrick Monahan, a native New Yorker who writes for Country Life and Vanity Fair, is consulted by collectors and museums on both sides of the Atlantic and who helped arrange the loan of Lord Leighton's 'Flaming June' from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico to the RA in 2024.

Media partner Country Life magazine is supporting this entertaining evening and proceeds from ticket sales for this talk go directly to the Society’s 'Buy a Square Foot of Burlington House’ appeal.

Patrick Monahan is a writer and art advisor with a special interest in Victorian art. He advises the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, which holds the most important collection of Victorian paintings outside the UK, including Flaming June by Frederic, Lord Leighton. From 2022-24, he arranged the loan of Flaming June to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and to the Royal Academy of Arts, London. His written work appears in Country Life, Vanity Fair,Airmail, and in the exhibition catalogue Flaming June: the making of an icon (Leighton House, London, 2016). He is also a regular lecturer on British art and architecture at The Royal Oak Foundation, New York. Patrick lives and works in New York City, with frequent visits to London.

This is a fundraising event and tickets will become available soon.