Discover works from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, including masters such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens. Over 60 drawings reveal how charcoal, ink and chalk captured social, religious and political change across the 16th and 17th centuries. Delicate strokes show both lived reality and imaginative storytelling.

Highlights include Bruegel’s Prudence from his Seven Virtues series. Loans from major UK collections enrich the experience, offering insight into how Old Masters translated observation, history and fantasy into powerful visual narratives of their rapidly changing world.