Conferences & Events Category
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 […]
Exhibitions and symposium: Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud and Childhood Now, 16 March to 16 June 2019
Compton Verney, 16 March to 16 June 2019 Symposium: 29 March 2019 (programme and booking here) Painting Childhood is a celebration of children, childhood and innocence brings together some of the most iconic paintings, sketches and sculptures of children produced in the past 500 years. Featuring stunning portraits, amusing scenes and touching ‘fancy pictures’, the exhibition […]
Conference: Victoria’s Self-Fashioning: Curating Royal Image for Dynasty, Nation and Empire, 20-21 May 2019
Conference at Kensington Palace: 20-21 May 2019 Conference co-organized by Historic Royal Palaces and the University of Warwick, in partnership with the Royal Collection Trust, the Bodleian Library, the University of Oxford and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, to mark the bicentenary of Queen Victoria’s birth. Queen Victoria’s name is […]
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 […]
