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The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art NEWSLETTER Yale University May 2013 Issue 36 Research Events at the Paul Mellon Centre The PMC research seminar of 6 February 2013, in which Professor Caroline Arscott of the Courtauld Institute of Art discussed William Morris’s tapestry The Woodpecker Photograph: Martine La Roche January 2013 saw the Paul Mellon Centre launching a and features talks on subjects that include Richard new series of research seminars and research lunches, Wilson’s landscape paintings, Kenneth Clark’s art respectively taking place on Wednesdays and Fridays, criticism, immigrant photographers, Gilded-Age art and featuring a mixture of established and emergent collectors, John Sell Cotman in Yorkshire, a Stuart scholars. These events are designed to showcase the aristocrat, imported cottons, country-house guide- most interesting and original research on all aspects of books, and the very different maritime pictures of de the history of British art and architecture. Our next Loutherbourg and Turner. programme of seminars and lunches begins in late April, All are welcome; for more details, please see overleaf. The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Mark Hallett Deputy Director of Studies: Martin Postle Assistant Director for Finance and Administration: Sarah Ruddick Librarian: Emma Floyd Archivist and Records Manager: Charlotte Brunskill Archives and Library Assistant: Jenny Hill Picture Researcher/ Richard Wilson Online Project Assistant: Maisoon Rehani Events Coordinator and Director’s Assistant: Ella Fleming Yale-in-London Coordinator: Nermin Abdulla IT Officer: Zulqarnain Swaleh Grants Administrator: Mary Peskett Smith Editor Special Projects: Guilland Sutherland Senior Research Fellows, Special Projects: Hugh Belsey, Elizabeth Einberg, Alex Kidson, Eric Shanes, Paul Spencer-Longhurst Advisory Council: Caroline Arscott, Paul Binski, David Peters Corbett, Penelope Curtis, Philippa Glanville, Michael Hatt, Nigel Llewellyn, Andrew Moore, Gavin Stamp, Christine Stevenson, Alison Yarrington Company Registered in England 983028 Registered Charity 313838 16 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Research Programmes Summer 2013 Research Seminars Research Lunches WEDNESDAYS, 5.45–7.45 PM FRIDAYS, 12.30–2.00 PM Our spring/summer series of five research seminars will The spring/summer programme of research lunches is be given by distinguished historians of British art and geared to doctoral students and junior scholars working architecture. These research seminars take the form of on the history of British art and architecture. These hour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and are research lunches, which will take place on alternate geared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-trade Fridays, are intended to be informal events in which professionals and research students working on the individual doctoral students and scholars talk for history of British art. half-an-hour about their projects, and engage in animated discussion with their peers. A sandwich lunch will be provided by the Centre on these occasions. We hope that 1st May this series will help foster a sense of community amongst Martin Postle (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in PhD students and junior colleagues working in the field, British Art) Richard Wilson (1714-82): Painting into Print and bring researchers from a wide range of institutions 8th May together in a collegial and friendly atmosphere. Shelley Bennett (Huntington Library and Art Collections) The Art of Wealth: the Huntingtons in the Gilded Age 26th April 29th May Sarah Moulden (University of East Anglia) The Christiane Hille (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Draughtsman’s Contract: John Sell Cotman in Yorkshire Munich) ‘Highly endowed in both Body and Mind’: George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham and the Triumph of 10th May Painting at the Stuart Court Joanna Cobb (University of Glasgow) Bending History: de Loutherbourg’s Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1796, in 12th June Bowyer’s Historic Gallery Chris Stephens (Tate Britain) Keeping modern art British: the patronage of Sir Kenneth Clark 24th May Jocelyn Anderson (Courtauld Institute of Art) Ornaments 26th June and Honours: Country Houses as Cultural Treasures in the Richard Johns (National Maritime Museum) From the 18th Century Nore: Turner at the Mouth of the Thames 7th June Amy Shulman (University of Birmingham) Picture Post and the Photo Essay: Émigré Photographers and Cultural Narratives in Britain, 1938-1945 21st June Anna Kesson (Yale University) Images of Industry: Indian Cotton and British Markets in the 19th Century Details about the Research Seminars and Research Lunches can also be found on the Centre’s website. In order to help us plan for these events, it is essential that all of those who intend coming to individual research seminars and research lunches email the Centre’s Events Co-ordinator, Ella Fleming, on William Woollett, after Richard Wilson [email protected], at least two days Niobe, engraving, 1761. The British Museum in advance. To receive regularly updated news on future research events to be held at the Centre, please contact Ella Fleming on [email protected] and ask to be placed on our email mailing list. CONFERENCES THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE Conference and Workshop A Window on Antiquity The Topham Collection, Eton College Library 17 May 2013 A conference at The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, in collaboration with the University of Buckingham and Eton College Consisting of 37 volumes and more than 3,000 items, the collection of drawings, watercolours and prints after antique sculptures and paintings amassed by Richard Topham (1671-1730) is one of the largest and most significant resources in England for the history of antiquarianism and for the culture and industry of the Grand Tour in Europe. This conference will indicate new avenues of research and is intended as the first step towards an online catalogue of the whole collection. Conference sessions, chaired by Lucy Gwynn, Ian Jenkins and Helen Whitehouse, will cover Anti quarianism and the Grand Tour Market in the early 18th Century; The Topham Collection and its Archaeological Value; and Francesco Bartoli, Drawing of an antique ceiling, c1725, pen, watercolour Richard Topham, His Library, Legacy and Influence. and bodycolour on paper, 360 x 357 mm (Eton College Library, Topham Collection Bn6:30) PROGRAMME Cinzia Maria Sicca (Università di Pisa) The Mind behind The full conference fee, including coffee, tea, lunch, the collection: John Talman, antiquary and advisor to Richard and wine reception is £30 (concessions £15). Topham and Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine Register for the conference online on the website: Eloisa Dodero (Dal Pozzo Project Research Assistant, http://97497ab08400.fikket.com/event/a-window-on Windsor Castle) Did Topham know of the ‘Museo -antiquity-the-topham-collection-at-eton-college Cartaceo’? The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo and the Or send a cheque made payable to Eton College to: Topham Collection of drawings Lucy Gwynn, Acting College Librarian, Eton College Novella Barbolani (Università di Roma La Sapienza) and Library, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 6DB. Valentina Rubechini (Università di Firenze) Francesco Tel: 01753 671221 Maria Niccolò Gabburri, John Talman and Richard Topham: For all further enquiries please contact: artistic exchanges between Florence and Britain A. Aymonino: [email protected] Bruno Gialluca (Independent Scholar) Kent’s drawings after L. Gwynn: [email protected] the Antique in the Topham and Holkham Collections Lucia Faedo (Università di Pisa) The Topham Collection and LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP HELD FEBRUARY 2013 the Roman palaces: British visitors to the Palazzo Barberini The Paul Mellon Centre and the Royal Academy jointly Mirco Modolo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre) From organised a scholars’ workshop at the Academy’s philology to the market: the archaeological value of Francesco exhibition Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the making of Bartoli’s drawings in the Topham Collection landscape. This event, which took place on the morning of Delphine Burlot (Institut National d’Histoire de the 4th February, enabled a wide range of specialists on l’Art-INHA, Paris) Forgeries of ancient paintings in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British landscape Topham Collection painting to discuss the arguments of the exhibition, focus Paul Quarrie (Maggs Bros Ltd) Richard Topham and his in detail on the individual works on display, and debate the library current state of scholarship in this area. Contributors included Nick Savage, Martin Postle, Annette Wickham, David Noy (University of Wales Trinity St David) Andrew Wilton and MaryAnne Stevens, each of whom Richard Topham’s will: a collector plans for the future took turns in leading discussion. The workshop generated Adriano Aymonino (University of Buckingham) The a great deal of stimulating debate on a subject – British Topham Collection as a source for British 18th-century landscape painting between 1750 and 1850 – that is classicism evidently attracting renewed scholarly interest. THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT AWARDS Fellowship and Grant Awards At the March 2013 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded: SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME GRANTS John Bonehill, University of Glasgow,