Research Papers

Including papers submitted by members and links to relevant papers hosted other websites.

Self-portrait in masquerade-dress by Richard Cosway (1742-1821), c.1770, Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (The National Trust), © National Trust Images/John Hammond

Men in Lace: The Fashionable Swagger. The 18th-century nostalgia for ornate ‘Vandyke’ dress by Oliver Garnett

A look at the fashion among male sitters in the eighteenth century. See National Trust’s online Arts, Buildings, Collections Bulletin July 2010.

King George I by unknown artist, 1715, Hanbury Hall © National Trust Images/Richard Stern

A Political Picture of George I at Hanbury by Sue Stern

Sue Stern, independent art historian and researcher, examines a portrait by an unidentified Worcester artist now at Hanbury Hall. In the National Trust Arts, Buildings & Collections Bulletin April 2011.

Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset (1587-1645), favourite of James I, by Nicholas Hilliard, watercolour on vellum, c.1611 © National Portrait Gallery, London

The reconstruction of the materials and techniques of Nicholas Hilliard’s portrait miniatures by Timea Tallian and Alan Derbyshire

An online paper from the V&A’s Conservation Journal (Autumn 2008, issue 56).

Queries & Reviews

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