This year’s Annual Seminar took place on Wednesday 25 November at the National Portrait Gallery, London. It aimed to highlight current scholarly research and interpretation, museum-based learning programmes, and curatorial practice relating to British portraits of all media and time periods.

Annual Seminar 25 November 2015 – programme  

Annual Seminar 25 Nov 2015 – further reading

Welcome from Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait Gallery

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Welcome from morning chairperson Jennifer Scott

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Wendy Hitchmough, Head of Historic Buildings & Research, Historic Royal Palaces
‘Setting’ the Stuart Dynasty

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Jordan Mearns, PhD Candidate, The University of Edinburgh
Behind the Curtain and Under the Kilt: The Earl of Bute, his Endowment and the Full-Length (of it)

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Sarah Grant, Curator of Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum; DPhil candidate, University of Oxford
English portraits of the princesse de Lamballe, an Anglophile princess at the court of Marie-Antoinette

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Panel discussion with Wendy HItchmough, Jordan Mearns and Sarah Grant, chaired by Jennifer Scott

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Welcome from afternoon chairperson Ian Dejardin

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Samantha Wilson, Curatorial Trainee, The Charleston Trust
The Maternal Paradox: The Private Portraiture of Vanessa Bell

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Dr Pauline Rose, Professor of Art History, BA (Hons) Fine Art, The Arts University Bournemouth
Kathleen Scott (1878–1947): A Portrait of the Sculptor and her Work

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Dr. Alice Correia, Researcher, University of Salford/ Mid-Career Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Making Myself Visible: Diasporic Culture and Representations of Blackness in the 1980s

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Bronwen Colquhoun, Assistant Curator, Photographs; Janet Browne, Programme Manager for Black Heritage and Culture; Lucy White, Learning Department Co-ordinator, all Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s

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Amina Wright, Senior Curator, and Louise Campion, Learning and Community Engagement Officer, both Holburne Museum, Bath
From the Inside-Out: 18th-century portraits meet 21st-century science

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Panel discussion with Samantha Wilson, Dr Pauline Rose, Dr Alice Correia, Bronwen Colquhoun, Janet Browne, Lucy White, Amina Wright, and Louise Campion, chaired by Ian Dejardin

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