Conferences & Events Category
Conference: Goldsmiths & Bankers as Collectors, 28 October 2019, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
This conference will bring together academics and curators to seek patterns of patronage amongst goldsmiths and bankers, an influential and diverse social grouping which has contributed significantly to both our architectural and artistic heritage. It will identify the range of social, economic and political motivations for their participation in high material culture and explore case […]
Exhibition ‘Power Couples. The Pendant Format in Art’ until 8 December 2019
Venue: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah Exhibition: 11 July to 8 December 2019 Symposium 8 October 2019 Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art considers how two interdependent works, called pendants, convey meaning. The study of this popular portrait format reveals a variety of artistic strategies at play – desires to communicate social […]
Call for Papers: Goldsmiths and Bankers as Collectors
Conference: Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, 28 October, 2019 Deadline for submissions: Friday 10 May, 2019 2019 will see the return to Osterley Park of one of the many remarkable Old Master paintings acquired by the Child family in the throes of Britain’s late 17th century financial revolution. The Childs are part of a long line of […]
A re-discovered portrait of Charles Marsh FSA by L.F. Abbott from the 1790s
Society of Antiquaries of London lecture by Maurice Howard, FSA The recent gift to the Society of this sensitive and haunting portrait enables investigation of the lively debate about antiquities in the late 18th century, the way that learned gentlemen of considerable means chose to create their self-image and, since Marsh lived at Twickenham, its […]
