THE ATTINGHAM TRUST for the study of HISTORIC houses and collections 2009 • NUMBER 7 NEWSLETTER Chairman’s Foreword

t seems only yesterday that I was writing last year’s Attingham depends on its dedicated supporters and IForeword and certainly the new team which I their loss is felt deeply by us all. It is with great sadness mentioned then, both here and in the US, are now that I report the death of Nina Stanton during the happily very much part of the fabric of the Attingham year. Nina has for many years flown the flag for Family, together with those of us who were there before. Attingham in Australia. Her enthusiasm and love for There is one sad loss, however, Libby De Rosa, the the Trust was reflected in her tireless work to secure a administrator for the American Friends, who has retired Copland scholarship for an Australian to attend each after five years of invaluable service to Attingham. We year. Her dedication is not only appreciated by have enjoyed working with her very much and will miss everyone in the UK but will also, for years to come, be her involvement. She has provided a vital link across the acknowledged by scholars from Australia. When she Atlantic and we would like to record our thanks for her knew she was ill, she spoke to us about making a dedicated efforts. We warmly welcome her replacement, bequest under her Will, and calmly, with the Mayuri Amuluru, who seems an inspired choice and we professional and affectionate concerns she has always look forward to working with her in the future. shown towards the Trust, agreed the relevant provisions with us. Her bequest allows for “not less After serving for over fifty-five years as one of our than one” scholarship each year which means that, in leading patrons, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire addition to the Copland Foundation, it will be has, very much to our regret, decided to step down and possible to grant scholarships to two suitable make way for someone younger. The inclusion of candidates (and for different programmes). The Chatsworth on the Summer School has always been a Stanton Scholarship will be available to Australians highlight of the programme since 1952 when working abroad as well as Australians from that Attingham was founded and the Duchess so kindly continent. We thank her for everything she has done welcomed the group as she has done continually since for Attingham and will always remember her with then. She has always been a warm and generous patron great affection. over the years and her personal welcome has become legendary and looked forward to by each year of On a happier note, I have referred in previous members. We thank her enormously for the time and newsletters to the importance of Historic Houses – our effort that she and her staff have put into each of our raison d’être – to our economy. This is especially so in visits. The privileged access she allowed us to examine these straitened times. It is therefore cheering to see the collection so extensively has been hugely that the Historic Houses Association, with whom we appreciated and we look forward to seeing her in future are proud to be closely associated, has very recently years as a friend. However, I am delighted to report that appointed an officer specifically responsible for this our close links with Chatsworth continue with the aspect of its work – a positive sign for the future. present Duke and Duchess. They are keen to meet the course members and play an active role in the JOHN LEWIS enjoyment and richness of each visit. Chairman

For further information about the Attingham Trust and the courses it runs please refer to website: www.attinghamtrust.org or contact Jo Ballingal Tel 0044 (0) 20 7233 7616. E-mail [email protected] For American members contact: Mayuri Amuluru, Tel: 001 212 682 6840. E-mail [email protected] . ATTINGHAM TRUST NEWSLETTER 2009 • NUMBER 7

Commentary The Duke of Devonshire KCVO, CBE, DL

he Duchess and I are both closely involved with for paying for the work through their admission Tevery aspect of the management and arrangement ticket. of the house opening, supported by a brilliant series of House teams, including collections, maintenance, On the visitor route the two biggest conservation marketing, the sewing room and housekeeping. problems are light and touch. Light is an implacable enemy and often it seems to be doubly victorious. The annual Attingham Summer School visit in July, The rooms are shown with much less light, both with its friendly scholars and their searching natural and electric, than hitherto and yet the questions, makes me think hard about how we balance tapestries and furniture are still damaged. Inquisitive the needs of conservation with the needs of everyday fingers multiplied by many thousands are damaging living at Chatsworth and with welcoming hundreds of too, but we have copied the Wallace Collection and thousands of visitors every year. It is impossible to get got rid of nearly all the ‘please do not touch’ signs. We this balance right for everyone, when there are so have also removed at least some of the protective floor many potentially contradictory things to coverings, as we found that grit from shoes did more consider/achieve, so there have to be compromises. damage to the marble floors when they were covered with a carpet than without, so now no carpet and the Our aim is to display the collection and the rooms in marble floors can be enjoyed by everyone. an intelligible way and thus to explain the history of the house, but private houses don’t have many In an innovation to come, in 2011, we will be notices in their sitting rooms or halls and nor do we. displaying a rotating selection of Old Master Drawings Private houses move furniture, pictures and other in a room specially fitted out to show them and that is works of art on a regular basis and so do we. Private a compromise between access and conservation with houses have family visiting and occasional parties and which all departments are very happy. I look forward so do we, even if this means sometimes closing rooms to the Attingham reaction when that year’s Summer normally open to visitors. Old houses need constant School join us. repair and restoration. At Chatsworth, this used to be done during the few weeks we are not open in the late The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire warmly welcome the winter but now we carry out as much of that work in Summer School to Chatworth each July, a much valued front of the visitors as we can. They find it interesting tradition established by the 11 th Duke and the Dowager and it gives us an excellent opportunity to thank them Duchess since the foundation of the School in 1952.

THE ATTINGHAM TRUST 2009

Trustees John Lewis OBE (Chairman), Martin Drury CBE, FSA, Lady Goodison FSA, Rosemary Lomax-Simpson, Caroline Rimell, Rosalind Savill DBE, FSA (Honorary Trustee, Dr Geoffrey Beard OBE, FSA)

Patrons HM Ambassador to Washington, The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, KBE, The Duke of Grafton KG, DL, The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire DCVO, The Marquess of Lansdowne DL, LVO, The Lord Crathorne, The Lord Rothschild OM, GBE, The Hon Desmond Guinness, Sir Timothy Clifford, Professor Sir David Cannadine FSA, Coral Samuel CBE, John Harris OBE, FSA

Officers Chairman: John Lewis OBE Vice-Chairman: Martin Drury CBE, FSA Director of Studies: Annabel Westman FSA Treasurer: Kate Morgan Secretary: Joanna Ballingal Director (Summer School): Lisa White FSA e r Assistant Director (Summer School): Christopher Garibaldi, MBA i h s Director (Study Programme): Giles Waterfield FSA k r o Director (Royal Collection Studies): Giles Waterfield FSA Y

, d r a Council David Adshead, FSA, Tom Appelquist (President of the American Friends of Attingham), Diana Berry, Errol Clark, w o

H Lord Dalmeny, James Hughes-Hallett, Tim Knox, FSA, Dr Christopher Ridgway, FSA, Jacqueline Riding (Chairman, e l t Attingham Society), Sir Hugh Roberts, KCVO, FSA, Dr Frank Salmon, FSA, Dr Carolyn Sargentson, Merlin Waterson, s a

C ay, Dr Adam White, FSA (Chairman, Scholarship Committee), Sara Heaton (Administrator, RCS), CBE, FSA, Nick W : r e Rebecca Parker (Administrator, Summer School) v o C

2 ATTINGHAM TRUST NEWSLETTER 2009 • NUMBER 7

The Attingham Study Programme 7 – 16 June 2009 • Giles Waterfield, Director

THE PRINCELY COURTS OF GERMANY

For the first time, the Attingham Trust went to Germany time was spent in Potsdam. Samuel Wittwer, Director of in June 2009. The extraordinary wealth of German Palaces and Collections, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser museums and princely collections is relatively little und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, was our guide and host known by British and American art lovers. The course during this period, providing for every need. Beginning was able to offer a stimulating with Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin, overview of these collections. we were able to visit most of the important buildings in the The course began in Dresden. extraordinary ensemble of palaces and Working closely with the staff of the gardens formerly owned by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Hohenzollerns. We gained a powerful notably Dr Dirk Syndram, Director of impression of their changing character, the Green Vault, we embarked on from the sophisticated Rococo of three days of visits. These allowed us Frederick the Great’s Sans Souci and to trace the history of electoral and Neues Palais, through the Neoclassical royal collecting in that remarkable city, Schloss Charlottenhof, to the weightier from the Renaissance Green Vault to interiors of the mid-nineteenth the academically-based Picture Gallery century Neue Orangerie. It was of the nineteenth century. There was instructive to hear about plans for the an opportunity to see many elements future, as well as to talk to curators who of the Foundation’s astonishing worked at Potsdam during the collections, notably the Print Cabinet, Communist era. A visit to Schloss the dazzling Porcelain Collection, the Tegel, the house of Wilhelm von Old Master Gallery, and the Armoury, Humboldt which is still inhabited by in the company of learned and his descendants, was a particular dedicated curators. Travelling by boat privilege. along the Elbe we saw Schloss Pillnitz with its rich collections of decorative The group included members from the arts, and later Schloss Moritzburg, the UK (16), the USA (15), New Zealand hunting castle of the Electors and (2), and one each from Australia, Kings of Saxony. Estonia, the Netherlands and Austria. Numerous heritage organisations, It was moving to hear about the museums, architectural practices, destruction of the city in 1945 and the Schloss Charlottenburg universities and art dealers were current re-creation of the architectural represented among the participants. ensemble. A tour of the interior of the royal Schloss in Dresden revealed the re-creation of this building to We are very grateful to those who provided financial house three major museums, including the Green Vault. support for scholarships for the Study Programme, and The confiscation of many works of art by Soviet troops notably the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the after the Second World War, and their partial return, was Monument Trust which funded a number of places for a recurring theme. European scholars. It is hoped that the level of bursaries for attendance on the Study Programme can be Wörlitz, in Anhalt-Dessau, is perhaps the greatest of all sustained in future years. German landscape gardens. In the company of Thomas Weiss, the Director, and Uwe Quilitzsch, the Chief It was a privilege for me personally to plan this Curator, we were able to trace the history of these programme with the able and charming co-operation of n o d

r gardens and their houses, a remarkable survival of Kate Morgan and to play some part in revealing the o G Enlightenment taste. A visit to the Bauhaus in Dessau cultural riches of Germany to an international expert . R

n and the nearby Artists’ Houses provided a startling group. e d l

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P We stayed for five days in Berlin, though most of our the Netherlands between 31st May and 8th June

3 ATTINGHAM TRUST NEWSLETTER 2009 • NUMBER 7 The Attingham Summer School 3rd - 21st July 2009 • Lisa White, Director

he 58th Attingham Summer School Ttook place in Sussex, the East Midlands and Yorkshire with 48 scholars from ten countries and a wide range of professional backgrounds. In addition to our regular 23 scholars from the USA we enjoyed the company and expertise of fifteen scholars from the UK, five from Europe, two from India, one from Australia and one from New Zealand. The Attingham team consisted of myself, Christopher Garibaldi as Assistant Director and Rebecca Parker as Administrator.

During our travels we welcomed many distinguished visitors, whose interest in and support of the Summer School are Tapestry Studio, West Dean College, Sussex greatly appreciated. These included Fiona Reynolds, Director-General of the National Trust, at Chatsworth, where we were given special insight Martin Drury, formerly Director General of the into the current Masterplan for the house. National Trust and currently Chairman of the Landmark Trust and Vice-Chairman of the Attingham The final part of the Summer School (15 – 21 July) was Trust, Tom Appelquist, President of the American based at the University of York, an ideal base for access friends of Attingham, Mayuri Amurulu, Administrator to many of Yorkshire’s great country houses and of the American Friends of Attingham, Jim Mundy, indeed the city of York itself, which we explored on Co-Chairman of the Fundraising Committee of the foot and enjoyed a magical tour of Fairfax House, The American Friends, Jackie Riding, Chairman of the Treasurer’s House and dinner in the Mansion House. Attingham Society, Rosemary Lomax-Simpson, Adam White, Chairman of our Scholarship Trustee of the Attingham Trust, and other officers of Committee and Curator of Lotherton Hall gave an the Attingham Trust. invaluable introductory lecture to our Yorkshire studies, as did Christopher Ridgway, Curator of Castle The programme followed its usual schedule for two- Howard, on the Yorkshire Country Houses thirds of its duration, based firstly at West Dean Partnership. Rain-swept visits to Brodsworth Hall and College in West Sussex from 3 – 9th July and then at Nostell Priory gave practical insight into complex the University of Nottingham from 9th – 15th July. conservation schemes while at Castle Howard we were Introductory lectures and seminars on many aspects treated to special access to the Mausoleum and the of house ownership, architecture, the Grand Tour, magnificent archives. Newby Hall and Harewood collectors of works of art, and the relationship House revealed the sophistication of Robert Adam’s between town and country houses supported on-site interiors and the magnificence of their collections, study at Arundel Castle, Petworth House, Uppark, while a day spent with Dr Patrick Eyres exploring the Parham Park and Brighton Pavilion. conservation of Wentworth Castle, and the extraordinary architecture at Wentworth Woodhouse In Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire our programme made us all aware that the future of the country house explored in greater depth the complexities and can still be at risk. Throughout our sojourn in challenges of interpretation, conservation and Yorkshire we were received by owners, staff and education in historic country houses, lucidly delivered academics with most appreciated hospitality and in lectures and seminars by distinguished scholars and interest, which increased our sense of the special place witnessed at Kedleston Hall, Calke Abbey, the Attingham Summer School continues to enjoy in Chatsworth, Bolsover, Hardwick Old and New Halls heritage studies. and Flintham Hall. During our time in the Midlands course members also enjoyed warm hospitality in In 2010, the Attingham Summer School will be based in private houses and the personal interest of the Duke West Sussex, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and and Duchess of Devonshire over lunch and seminars Bedfordshire between 2-20 July.

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Royal Collection Studies 6 - 15 September 2009 • Giles Waterfield, Director

The fourteenth session of Royal Collection Studies from Historic Royal Palaces, the organisation which assembled an outstanding group of curators, museum looks after the palaces not occupied by the Queen. directors, academics, independent experts and The programme included numerous intensive visits representatives of the art trade. The membership was and a series of lectures, and a great deal of privileged extremely diverse, with the largest groups from the access was accorded. At members of United Kingdom (11), the United States (6) and the programme were given a presentation about the Continental Europe (12). The European members proposed major reorganisation of the building and its included participants from Germany (4), France (3), collections. Sweden (2) and one each from the Czech Republic, Russia and Belgium, with one participant from New elements of this year’s programme included a Australia. Given the increasingly international nature presentation by Michael Day, Chief Executive of of curatorial work, a number of curators work with Historic Royal Palaces; a visit to the Paper collections in countries Conservation Studio and that are not their own, the royal bindery at and on this course there , a special were six participants of viewing of the German birth, of whom miniatures, and a visit to two live in England. with its innovative style of Given the strong display. At Westminster historical relationship Abbey the Keeper of the between German and Muniments showed us English royalty, it is the medieval muniment particularly satisfactory room with its twelfth and that Germany was so thirteenth century chests well represented this which must be among year by leading the earliest chests in the institutions. The battle country, while our visit Hampton Court, Surrey to attract any to the applications from Italy continues, but so far without allowed the opportunity to see the exhibition Dressed success. to Kill, a memorable display on the theme of Henry VIII’s armours. The reign of Henry VIII (who came to Participants included representatives from the the throne of England in 1509) was a theme to which Swedish Royal Collection; the Prussian Palaces and we returned throughout the course. Gardens Foundation, Berlin-Brandenburg, the Green Vault in Dresden, and Veste-Coburg; the châteaux of Staying at Cumberland Lodge in Compiègne and Versailles; the National Gallery in was a rare delight, and the comfort combined with Prague; and the Grabor Art Conservation Centre, peace and quiet and a series of delicious and inventive Moscow. From the USA came curators at the J. Paul meals allowed participants some relaxation from the Getty Museum, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the very long and arduous days. We much enjoyed Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Governor’s hearing about the history of the house from Alastair Mansion in Austin, Texas. British institutions who Niven, the Principal. sent members of staff included the Victoria and Albert Museum, the two National Trusts (England and Wales, We are greatly indebted to the many people who Scotland), English Heritage, Historic Royal Palaces, the support the course with scholarships, which means in Brighton, and Christie’s UK. that no suitable candidate is rejected on the grounds Universities represented included lecturers from St of financial means. Andrew’s University and Colgate University (Venice). n a A major contribution was made this year, as in the m o

s As in previous years, the programme aimed to make a nine previous, by our admirably efficient and caring o R chronological survey of the extraordinary wealth of administrator, Sara Heaton. e v e r the royal collections in palaces in and around T

: o t London. Much of the teaching was carried out by In 2010, Royal Collection Studies will be based at o h

P members of the Royal Collection staff and by curators Cumberland Lodge, Windsor between 5-14 September 5 ATTINGHAM TRUST NEWSLETTER 2009 • NUMBER 7 The American Friends of Attingham Tom Appelquist • President

he past year has been an eventful one for the Mayuri takes on a role that has become ever more TAmerican Friends of Attingham. Perhaps most complex as our organization matures. Her ability to significant was the departure of our well-loved use the technology we now rely upon for administrator, Libby De Rosa, who wished to return to communication with our members, managing our her own scholarly and personal pursuits. One budget, co-ordinating the work of our committees, consequence of this change that was worrisome at and seeking financial support from individuals and first was the need to find a new office. Until now, the institutions, is a great asset. We are delighted with American Friends have never paid rent. However, we Mayuri’s enthusiasm and drive, helping us to become were very fortunate to find a small space within organized and better at all the things we are English Speaking Union, conveniently located near trying to do. Grand Central Station in New York City. The Union Jack and American flag fly together over the front Among this year’s initiatives is our first Annual door and we have the use of conference and lecture Fundraiser. A lecture and cocktail reception will present space, as well as congenial colleagues. Attingham alumnus, Thomas Campbell, the recently appointed Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Our good luck continued when in June we hired an Art, who has graciously agreed to speak about American intelligent and energetic new administrator, Mayuri Tapestry Collecting, and to take questions from the Amuluru, who came to us from the adult education audience. This we hope will make for a lively program at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Mayuri interaction and set a pattern for future events. and I were able to attend several days of this year’s Summer School and it was a great pleasure to meet Though we were not unscathed by the past year’s and share with the Class of 2009 the treasures of turmoil in the financial world, we are optimistic about Chatsworth and Hardwick and, for Mayuri, to get a our future. We are working hard and are as convinced glimpse of the Attingham experience. as ever of the value of the extraordinary Attingham programs we support.

The Attingham Society Jacqueline Riding • Chairman

ince 2007, The Attingham Society has represented huge success. In 2009 the reunion will be held at the Sall non-US Alumni and we have recently revised Foundling Museum, Bloomsbury on Monday 30 th our committee to better reflect the most recent November, with a welcome and talk by the Director, courses and new members. We now have Lars Tharp. The story of the Foundling Hospital is a representatives from 2007, 2008 and 2009 as well as fascinating one, and the museum contains an the Assistant Director and Administrator from the extraordinary collection of British eighteenth-century Summer School. art as well as one of the finest rooms from the 1740s. Our thanks go to Annie Kemkeran-Smith for once This year the Society contributed to a scholarship for again organising a great event. the Summer School and we now aim to provide a full scholarship for one of the Attingham courses on an Finally, this is my last year as Chairman of the Society annual basis. I would like to thank the Society – a position I have enjoyed immensely - but my members who support this initiative through their involvement with Attingham will continue through generous donations. Our annual reunion continues to my role as Assistant Director of the new London be the major Society and Trust social event of the year. House Course (April 2010). In 2008 it was held at the Art Workers Guild and was a

The Attingham Trust, founded in 1952, runs three annual programmes: The Attingham Summer School, an eighteen-day course based at three different centres in Britain to study historic houses, their contents and setting; The Attingham Study Programme, which offers a similar course of nine or ten days sometimes held abroad; and Royal Collection Studies, a ten-day programme organised on behalf of Royal Collection, which studies the patronage and collecting of British monarchs. In April 2010 the Trust will also be running The London House Course studying the London town house. 6 ATTINGHAM TRUST NEWSLETTER 2009 • NUMBER 7

Scholarship benefactors Annabel Westman • Director of Studies, The Attingham Trust

Attingham has fared well in this year ATTINGHAM DONORS 2009 Aof financial turmoil thanks in large part to the generosity of its scholarship MAJOR DONORS The Peter and Wilhemina Minet donors. Particular recognition must go to (donations of more than £25,000 over the years) Trust the Monument Trust and the Basil Errol Clark; Alex Copland Dr Hendrik Muller Vaderlandsch Samuel Foundation in the UK, and the Foundation; Elisha-Bolton Fond (The Netherlands) Royal Oak Foundation in the US, who Foundation (Gilbert Schafer III), The Monument Trust The National Museum of Wales have all continued to fund a number of Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Charitable Trust; Lillian The National Trust for England full and partial scholarships. This has Hirschmann; Stewart Johnson,; and Wales helped to meet the demand received The Samuel H. Kress Foundation; Charles E. Peterson Fellowship at from participants on both sides of the New York Community Trust, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Atlantic and further afield. This was the Edward Maverick Fund; Peter and (USA) first year of the ‘Simon Sainsbury’ grant Wilhemina Minet; The The RA Trust (India) given in perpetuity by the Monument Monument Trust; Stewart The Ida and William Rosenthal Trust in memory of his long-term Rosenblum; Royal Oak Foundation Inc. (USA) support for Attingham. One of the Royal Foundation; Basil Samuel Trust; Royal Castle (Poland) Oak scholars received the ‘Dowager Brunschwig & Fils The Royal Collection Duchess of Devonshire’ scholarship, a The Royal Oak Foundation (USA) founder Patron of the Attingham Trust, SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 Sansovino Scholarship who will always be remembered for the Alice Trust Sir John Soane’s Museum Association for Cultural Exchange The Friends of the Victoria and warm and generous welcome she gave to (ACE) Albert Museum the Summer School on its annual visits The American Friends of to Chatsworth. Attingham (USA) STUDY PROGRAMME 2009 Attingham Summer School Class The Attingham Trust A one-off donation was given this year by of 2008 English Heritage the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. This Sybil Bruel Endowment Fund The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation contribution assisted two scholars on the (USA) Hazel Wood Charitable Trust Summer School and Study Programme The Attingham Trust The Monument Trust and will be invested to cover further Christie’s Education Scholar The National Trust of England and scholarships over the next couple of (London) Wales years. The Royal Collection has also been The Clark Collection/Creative Victoria and Albert Museum generous in supporting candidates on New Zealand Fund (NZ) ROYAL COLLECTION both the Summer School and Royal The John Cornforth Memorial Fund STUDIES 2009 Collection Studies. We were very pleased Copland Foundation (Australia) The Attingham Trust to renew our link with India with one of Direction des Musées de France Edward Lee Cave (USA) the two Summer School participants (France) Christie’s (London) being supported by an Indian benefactor Dutch Castles Foundation (The English Heritage We were also delighted to establish a new Netherlands) J. Paul Getty Museum (USA) contact with the Dr Hendrik Muller’s Elisha-Bolton Foundation (Gilbert Nicholas and Judith Goodison Vaderlandsch Foundation which will P. Schafer III) (USA) Judith Hernstadt (USA) provide support for a Dutch scholar over English Heritage The Lady Heseltine the next five years. English Speaking Union’s Historic Royal Palaces American Art Attingham Fund Paula Madden (USA) We are enormously grateful to the other Esmée Fairbairn Foundation W. Keith Neal institutions and individual donors listed Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art The National Trust for England and Wales who have been loyal over a number of Gallery Lillian Hirschmann Endowment Stewart Rosenblum (USA) years. In 2010, the drive for finding more Fund (USA) Kate de Rothschild financial support for the Study Historic Royal Palaces Scholar Royal Collection Trust Programme will continue - the course Samuel H. Kress Foundation (USA) Basil Samuel Charitable Trust benefited hugely this year from an Edward Maverick Fund, New York Adrian Sassoon increase in the number of scholars, We Community Trust (USA) St. Catherine Trust (Scotland) hope to continue this trend for all three Manchester City Council Victoria and Albert Museum courses and are constantly on the search for new supporters. The Attingham Trust is an educational charitable trust no 262819 7 ATTINGHAM STUDY PROGRAMME MEMBERS, 2009

• DAVID ADSHEAD • ERROL CLARK • JUDITH HERNSTADT • Dr LESLEY MILLER • CAROLINE RIMELL Head Curator, The National Trust, Director, New Zealand Historic Private collector and researcher, Senior Curator (Textiles), The Trustee, The Attingham Trust, London, UK. Places Trust, Wellington, NZ. NY, USA. Victoria & Albert Museum, Former Director The Attingham London, UK. Study Week, UK. • CYNTHIA ALTMAN • JENNIFER CLARK • GARETH HUGHES Curator, Kykuit, The Rockerfeller Private collector, Wellington, NZ. Curator of Art, East Territory, • Dr ANDREW MOORE • CHARLES SAVAGE Brothers Fund, NY, USA. English Heritage, UK. Keeper of Art and Senior Curator, Architectural Historian, NY, USA. • HELEN DOREY Norfolk Museums & Archaeology • DAVID BEEVERS Deputy Director and Inspectress, • THOMAS JAYNE Service, Norwich, UK. • JAY ROBERT STIEFEL Keeper of the Royal Pavilion, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, Principal, Thomas Jayne Studio, Historian and author, PA, USA. Brighton, UK. UK. NY, USA. • ELIZABETH MOORE Historic Buildings Architect, • PETER STRUTHERS • DIANA BERRY • DONALD HENRY • KATHRYN LUHRS English Heritage, London, UK. Curator, SR Stoneman Foundation Former Senior Director Sotheby’s, DUNLOP Associate Editor, The Magazine at Duneira, Victoria, Australia. London, UK. Associate Professor, California Antiques , NY, USA. • MELINDA PAPP College of the Arts. CA, USA. Co-Director, Florian Papp Gallery, • ANNE UNTERA • DICK BUTTON • SARAH MEDLAM NY, USA. Head of Prints & Drawings Private collector, NY, USA. • Dr ALDEN GORDON Deputy Keeper, Furniture, Textiles Collection, Art Museum of Estonia, Professor of Art History, Trinity & Fashion, The Victoria & Albert • MERRIBEL PARSONS Tallin, Estonia • Dr JEAN CADOGAN College, CT, USA. Museum, London, UK. Art Museum Consultant, TX, USA. Professor of Art History, Trinity • IVONNE VOELKEL College, CT, USA. • RICHARD GRIFFITHS • MARIA MENSHIKOVA • Dr JET PYZEL- Architectural Assistant, Julian Principal, Richard Griffiths Curator, Chinese Decorative, DOMMISSE Harrap Architects, London, UK. • MARGARET CIVETTA Architects, London, UK. Export Art & Jewellery, The State Curator of Decorative Arts, Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, NY, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, • Dr ADAM WHITE USA. Russia. The Netherlands. Curator of Collections, Lotherton Hall, Leeds, UK. ATTINGHAM SUMMER SCHOOL MEMBERS, 2009

• JULIA BAKER • ANNE FORSCHLER- • EVA LABSON • HANNAH PHILLIP • JONATHAN TAVARES Objects Conservator, Objects TARRASCH Collections Assistant, Antonio Assistant Director, Fairfax House, Collections Assistant, Dept. of Conservation Associates, PA, USA. Curator of Decorative Arts, Ratti Textile Center, Metropolitan York, UK. Arms and Armour, Metropolitan Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, Museum of Art, NY, USA. Museum of Art, NY, USA. • RACHEL BOAK USA. • KATARZYNA POLUJAN Curator, Waddesdon Manor, • CELIA LIU Curator of the Textile Collection, • REBECCA TILLES Waddesdon, UK. • JEREMY GARFIELD- Project Architect, Fairfax & Royal Castle Warsaw, Warsaw, Curatorial Research Associate, DAVIES Sammons, NY, USA. Poland. Decorative Arts and Sculpture, • LAUREN CANNADY Author and Independent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Furniture Specialist, London, UK. • ANDREW LOUKES • ANN BETH PRESLEY MA, USA. Arts, NY, USA. Curator of Fine Art, Manchester Associate Professor, Auburn • RYAN GROVER Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. University, AL, USA. • CHARLOTTE • LAURE CHABANNE Curator, Biggs Museum of Art, DE, TOPSFIELD Curator, Musée du Château USA. • PHILLIPPA MAPES • LEE PROSSER Assistant Curator, Dept. of Prints Compiègne, Compiègne, France. East Territory Conservator, Curator, Historic Royal Palaces, and Drawings, National Museum • JOSEPHINE HUGHES English Heritage,UK. , Surrey, of Wales, Cardiff, UK. • SIMON CHESTERS Design Team Leader, Hawke’s Bay UK. THOMPSON Museum and Art Gallery, Napier, • MATTHEW MARTIN • CARRIE VAN HORN Curator, East Midlands, The NZ. Assistant Curator of Decorative • ELIZABETH RUDY Curatorial Assistant, Peabody National Trust, UK. Arts and Antiques, National Chester Dale Fellow, Dept. of Essex Museum, MA, USA. • KARNI JASOL Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Prints and Drawings, • JOHN CLARK Curator, Mehrangarh Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, • MRINALINI Media Production, Clark Star Trust, Jodhpur, India.. • JOANNA NORMAN USA. VENKATESWARAN Productions, LA, USA. Assistant Curator, Exhibitions Consultant, City Palace Museum, • KATHRYN JONES Victoria and Albert Museum, • TANIA SAMMONS Udaipur, India. • RENE DESSING Assistant Curator, The Royal London, UK. Curator, Owens-Thomas House, Art Historian and Adviser in Collection, London, UK. Telfair Museum, GA, USA. • LEAH WALCZAK Cultural Heritage, Heesmtede, • PEGGY OLLEY Regional Site Manager, Historic The Netherlands. • SARAH KAY Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, • EGAN SEWARD New England, MA, USA. Freelance Project Curator, Historic Furniture Conservation, Project Manager, Senior Interior • PIA EHASALU Properties, West Midlands, UK. Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, Designer, Thomas Jayne Studio, • REBECCA WALLIS Chief Curator, Conservation USA. NY, USA. Curatorial Assistant, The Wallace Centre Kanut, Tallinn, Estonia. • FRANK KEOHANE Collection, London, UK. Conservation Building Surveyor, • TOM PERRETT • CHRISTOPHER • BARBARA FILE Paul Arnold Architects, Dublin, Head of Collections and SOKOLOWSKI • ANNEMIEKE WIELINGA Archivist, Metropolitan Museum Ireland. Exhibitions, Cecil Higgins Art Paper Conservator, Northeast Director, Dutch Castles of Art, NY, USA. Gallery & Bedford Museum, UK. Document Conservation Center, Foundation, The Netherlands. • JERZY KIERKUC- MA, USA. • JAMES FINELLI BIELINSKI • ALYCE PERRY • KATHRYN WOLLAN Public Interpreter, Schuyler Exhibitions Curator, Sir John MA Candidate, Winterthur • ANDREW SPIRA Associate Architectural Historian, Mansion State Historic Site, NY, Soane’s Museum, London, UK. Program in American Material Course Director, Christie’s Architectural Resources Group, USA. Culture, DE, USA. Education, London, UK. CA, USA. • BRANTLEY KNOWLES Chairman of Museum Properties, • KRISTEN SUZDA The National Society of the Preservation Architect, Atkin Colonial Dames of America, VA, Olshin Schade Architects, PA, USA. USA. ROYAL COLLECTION STUDIES MEMBERS, 2009

• ALEXANDRA BAUER, • BERNARD DRAGESCO • REBECKA MILLHAGEN • ANJA ŠEVC˘ÍK • PRISCA VALKENEERS Restitution Department, Partner, Dragesco-Cramoisan, Editor, The Swedish Royal Curator, Old Master Pictures, Royal Museum of Fine Arts / Prussian Palaces and Gardens, Barly, France. Collection, Stockholm, Sweden. The National Gallery in Prague, PhD Student, Antwerp, Belgium. Potsdam, Germany. Czech Republic. • DAVID JONES • EMILY NEFF • CHRISTOPH • IAN BLATCHFORD Senior Teaching Fellow, Curator, American Paintings & • CINDY SHAW VOGTHERR Deputy Director, Victoria & University of St. Andrews, Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, STEWART Curator of pictures pre 1800 & Albert Museum, London, UK. Scotland. TX, USA. Trustee, Royal Collection Trust Acting Head of Collections, The and Sir William Burrell’s Trust, Wallace Collection, London, • JONATHAN BOURNE • JANE KAROTKIN • MARIAM NIKOGOSYAN Inverkip, Scotland. UK. Furniture Historian and Administrator / Curator, The Research Assistant, The Grabor Consultant; London, UK. Governor’s Mansion, Austin, Art Conservation Centre, • EMMANUEL STARCKY • JEFFREY WEAVER TX, USA. Moscow, Russia. Conservateur Genéral du Associate Curator, Department • RUTH BURGESS Patrimonie and Director, of Sculpture and Decorative Property Manager, National • MERIT LAINE • KENT RAWLINSON Château du Compiègne, Arts, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Trust for Scotland, Scotland. Curator, The Swedish Royal Curator, Buildings, Historic Compiègne, France. Los Angeles, CA, USA. Collection, Stockholm, Sweden. Royal Palaces, Hampton Court • ROGER CARR- Palace, Surrey, UK. • CORINNE THÉPAUT – • ULRIKE WEINHOLD WHITWORTH • TERENCE LANE CABASSET Curator, Grünes Gewölbe, Territory Curator North, The Art Historian and Consultant, • TREVE ROSOMAN Researcher and Curator, Château Dresden, Germany. National Trust, Yorkshire, UK. Victoria, Australia. Curator, Architectural Study de Versailles, Versailles, France. Collection, English Heritage, • KLAUS • CHARLES CATOR • ALEXANDRA LOSKE London, UK. • ADRIANA TURPIN WESCHENFELDER Deputy Chairman, Christie’s, D-Phil. Research Student, Academic Director, Institut Director, Kunstsammlungen der London, UK. University of Brighton, Sussex, • LINDA ROTH d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts, Veste Coburg, Coburg, UK. Senior Curator and Curator of London, UK. Germany. • LIZ CARROLL European Decorative Arts, CONSAVARI • TODD MAGRETA Wadsworth Athenaeum of Art, Professor of Art History, Colgate Director’s Fellow, Indianapolis Hartford, CT, USA. University Venice Study Group, Museum of Art, IN, USA. Venice, Italy. 8