 |  | | | The Davies Sisters | 02 Aug 2007 | | |
 Art collectors extraordinaire.
One of the most impressive art collections in Britain was amassed by two Welsh spinster sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. At the beginning of the last century, they began to collect works by Monet, Renoir and Cezanne; they also became great patrons of music and local crafts and their home, Gregynog in Montgomeryshire, became and remains a hot-spot for the arts. With an exhibition commemorating their lives recently opened at the National Museum of Wales, Jane is joined by Beth McIntyre, one of the curators of the exhibition and Mary Oldham, the librarian at Gregynog, to consider the contribution the Davies sisters made to Britain 's cultural life.
Gregynog Conference Centre, University of Wales
Industry to Impressionism: what two sisters did for Wales
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