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Annual Seminar 2013

Posted: 2013

This year’s Annual Seminar will be held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on Wednesday 27 November. We’re delighted to confirm that the chairpersons will be Professor Shearer West, Head of Humanities Division at the University of Oxford, and Professor Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.   The full programme and booking details will be announced here[...]

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Portraits, frames and technology by Rebecca Milner

Posted: 17 April 2013

  Last month I attended the excellent Portrait Network seminar Copy, Version and Multiple: the replication and distribution of portrait imagery. I was particularly interested in the papers on Lely’s studio practice and Victorian carte-de-visite portrait photographs but the last talk of the day by video artist Marty St James resonated unexpectedly with another area of interest. In September last[...]

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18thC/19thC lady

Posted: 10 January 2013

This portrait, formerly thought to depict Lady Emma Hamilton, is in the UK Government Art Collection. Any thoughts regarding the sitter’s identity and artist attribution is appreciated – please use the ‘add a comment’ facility below.   Zoom in on this picture on the GAC website.

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