Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2015 Meet the Masters: Highlights from the Scottish National Gallery

Lecture title: Francesca da Rimini by

Lecturer: Dr. Alison Inglis, Art History Department, School of Culture and Communication

12 and 13 August 2015

Lecture summary:

This lecture will focus on the painting titled Francesca da Rimini by the Scottish-born artist, William Dyce (1806-1864). The will be considered within the context of Dyce’s career as a leading Victorian artist and administrator; and it will also be positioned against the broader background of the European-wide revival of interest in the so-called “Primitives”, the term used at the time to describe the art of the Early Renaissance and of fifteenth-century Northern Europe.

Slide list: 1. John Watkins, William Dyce, Caret de visite photograph, c. 1850-60, Royal Academy of Arts London 2. William Dyce, Christ Enthroned with Saints (Design for a Fresco, All Saints Margaret Street), 1849, oil on canvas, Victoria and Albert Museum 3. William Dyce, Titian’s First Essay in Colour, 1856-57, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums 4. William Dyce, Mrs. John Clerk Maxwell and her son James, 1832-33, oil on canvas, Birmingham Museums Trust 5. William Dyce, Francesca da Rimini, 1837, oil on canvas, National Galleries of Scotland 6. William Dyce, The Judgement of Solomon, 1836, tempera on paper on canvas, National Galleries Scotland 7. William Dyce, Man of Sorrow, c. 1860, oil on canvas, National Galleries Scotland 8. William Dyce, Madonna and Child, c. 1827-30, oil on canvas, Tate 9. William Dyce, Omia Vanitas, 1848, oil on canvas, Royal Academy of Arts 10. William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent, a Recollection of October 5, 1858, 1858-60, oil on canvas, Tate 11. William Dyce, The Highland Ferryman, 1857, oil on canvas, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums 12. William Dyce, Sir James McGrigor, BT, KCB, LLD, MD, MA, 1827-28, oil on canvas, University of Aberdeen 13. William Dyce, Miss Hannah Carnegie, date unknown, oil on canvas, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums 14. William Dyce, Isabella Cay, 1852, oil on canvas, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums 15. William Dyce, Virgin and Child, oil on plaster, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries 16. William Dyce, Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1835, oil on canvas, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums 17. William Dyce, George Herbert at Bemerton, Salisbury, oil on canvas, 1860, Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London Corporation 18. William Dyce, Garden at Gethsemane, 1860, oil on canvas, National Museums Liverpool 19. William Dyce, Henry VI at Towton, North Yorkshire, 1860, oil on panel, Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London Corporation 20. William Dyce, Beatrice, 1859, oil on panel, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums 21. William Dyce, Christabel, 1855, oil on panel, Glasgow Museum 22. William Dyce, Lowry William Fredrick Dyce, (the Artist’s Nephew), 1835, oil on canvas, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums 23. William Dyce, the Meeting of Jacob and Rachel, 1850, oil on canvas, Leicester Arts and Museum Services 24. William Dyce, Bacchus Nursed by the Nymphs of Nyssa, 1827, oil on canvas, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums 25. William Dyce, Welsh Landscape with Two Women, 1860, oil on board, National Museum Wales 26. William Dyce, Joash Shooting the Arrow of Deliverance, 1844, oil on canvas, Private Collection 27. after Wiliam Dyce, Joash Shooting the Arrow of Deliverance, illustration in H. J. Wilmot-Buxton, English Painters, London, 1883

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German and French works in lecture:

28. P. Cornelius,The Triumph of Reason in the Arts, 1840, fresco, Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt 29. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Medieval Town by Water, after 1813, Oil on canvas, Neue Pinakothek, Munich 30. Caspar David Friedrich, The Cross in the Mountains, 1812, Oil on canvas, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 31. Karl F. Schinkel, View in the Prime of the Hellenic Epoch (detail), 1836, Oil on canvas, Collection 32. J-A-D. Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière, 1806, Oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris 33. William Blake, The Angels Hovering over The Body of Christ in the Sepulchre, c.1805, pen and watercolour, Victoria and Albert Museum 34. Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Self Portrait, 1844, Oil on canvas,Uffizi Gallery, Florence 35. Franz Pforr, Self-Portrait, 1810, Oil on board, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main 36. Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Design for the Brotherhood of St. Luke, c.1809, Etching, Bibliothek der Hansestadt Lübeck 37. F. Overbeck, Portrait of the Painter Franz Pforr c. 1810, Oil on canvas, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 38. F. Overbeck, Italia and Germania, after 1828, Oil on canvas, 95 x 105 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden 39. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Clara Bianca von Quandt, 1820, Oil on panel, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 40. Johann Friedrich Overbeck,Self Portrait with Peter Cornelius, 1812, Pencil on vellum, Collection unknown 41. F. Overbeck, The Seven Lean Years (above); P. Cornelius, Joseph revealing himself to his brothers Fresco, 1816-17, National Gallery, Berlin 42. F. Pforr, The Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basel, 1809-10, Oil on canvas, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt 43. J-A-D. Ingres, The Entry of the Future Charles V into Paris in 1358, 1821, Oil on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Comparisons:

44. John Flaxman, Paolo and Francesca, engraving from The Divine Comedy, 1802 45. J-A-D. Ingres, Gianciotto discovers Paolo and Francesca, 1819, oil, Musee Turpin de Crisse 46. Joseph Noel Paton, Dante meditating on the episode of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, 1852, oil on canvas, Bury Art Gallery 46. D. G. Rossetti, Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, 1867, watercolour, National Gallery of Victoria

Reference:

Books or articles you have used in writing your lecture or that might be of interest to the audience.

M. Pointon, William Dyce 1806-1864: a critical biography, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1979 A. Staley, The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, 2nd edition, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001 D. and F. Irwin, Scottish Painters at home and abroad, Faber and Faber, London, 1975 M. Pointon, “The Representation of Time in Painting: a study of William Dyce’s Pegwell Bay: A recollection of October 5th, 1858”, Art History, vol. 1, issue 1, March 1978, pp.99-103.

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