As Curator at The Devil’s Porridge Museum, my research primarily focuses on social history and how people lived and worked during the First World War. I’ve followed the UBP network for some time, and particularly enjoyed 2022’s Annual Seminar which helped me to reflect on some of my own work. But […]
Discovery. Reinterpretation. Re-appraisal. Representation of identities. These are only a few of the themes I noted from the Understanding British Portraits Network Annual Seminar on Tuesday 25 October 2022. I was keen to learn new techniques to study portraits, to set alongside, for example, the concepts of fashioning and self-fashioning of […]
The position of ‘Researcher/Coordinator – Subject Specialist Network: Understanding British Portraiture’ is now open for applications. The candidate will be employed by the National Portrait Gallery and will report to the Head of National Programmes and the Understanding British Portraits Steering Group. The Researcher/Coordinator will provide research and coordination […]
The winners of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize were announced at Cromwell Place on the 25th of October 2022. Clémentine Schneidermann took first place for the series Laundry Day which depict the artist’s neighbour hanging laundry in the garden of her home in South Wales. Taken during another […]
In celebration of the Barnes Foundation centennial, the institution commissioned Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die), an immersive five-screen installation by artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien, CBE RA (b. London, 1960). The work explores the relationship between Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who was an early US collector and exhibitor of African material culture, and […]
Previously misattributed, Richmond Barthé’s Seated Man in a Landscape goes on display at the National Trust’s Belton House after new research confirms both the artist and sitter. The sitter has been identified as Lucian Levers, who was employed as Barthé’s helper at Lolaus, the artist’s house and studio in St Ann Parish, Jamaica. Read about the research here.
Philip Mould & Company, London, free entry Monday to Friday, 9.30am-6pm Sarah Biffin was born into a farming family in Somerset in 1784, where her baptism records state that she was ‘born without arms and legs’. Teaching herself to write and draw from a young age, Biffin rose to fame as an artist and established […]
Pallant House Gallery is pleased to announce the major exhibition of the British artist Glyn Philpot R.A. (1884-1937) in almost 40 years (since the 1984 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery). It brings together over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures, many unseen in public for decades, charting the artist’s development from Edwardian swagger portraits to […]
In this landmark project renowned artists give 25,000+ looked-after children visibility after 280 years, commemorating the lost faces of children given into care between 1741-1954. Permanently revolutionising the Foundling Museum’s 280-year-old collection, it commissioned five major artists to create portraits of five exceptional sitters – former pupils of the Foundling Hospital – to hang alongside […]
