2006
The Life and Times of a Masterpiece: Young Woman Seated at the Virginals by Johannes Vermeer van Delft
Gregory Rubinstein
Worldwide Head of Old Master Drawings, Sotheby’s

2004
Felix Slade
Charles Saumarez Smith
Director of the National Gallery, London

2002
Deep and true? The cultural life of the English landscape
Patrick White
Writer and broadcaster

2001
Imaginative Criticism
Geoff Dyer
Writer and critic

1999
Neuroscience in Art: Conflict or Complement?
Susan Greenfield
Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Oxford

1998
How to draw a pigeon
Stephen Farthing
Ruskin Master of Drawing, University of Oxford

1998
Fictional artists, real spectators ‘Amico di Sandro’, Roger Fry’s Cézanne and the Demoiselles d’Avignon
Christopher Green
Professor of the History of Art, Courtauld Institute, University of London

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