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Yale University January 2014 Issue 38

RICHARD WILSON AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING

The exhibition Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting is to be held atthe Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, from 6 March to 1 June 2014, and at the National Museum Wales, Cardiff, from 5 July to 29 October 2014. Long known as the father of British landscape painting, Richard Wilson was, the exhibition contends, at the heart of a profound conceptual shift in European landscape art. With over 160 works, the exhibition and accompanying publication not only situate Wilson’s art at the beginning of a native tradition that leads to John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, but argues that in Rome during the 1750s Wilson was part of an international group of artists who reshaped European art. Rooted in the work of great seventeenth-century masters such as Claude Lorrain but responding to the early stirrings of neoclassicism, Wilson forged a highly original landscape vision that through the example of his own works and the tutelage of his pupils in Rome and later in London was to establish itself throughout northern Europe. In addition to a wide range of oil paintings and works on paper by Wilson, the exhibition includes works by Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet, Anton Raphael Mengs, Pompeo Batoni, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Claude-Joseph Vernet, Adolf Friedrich Harper, Johan Mandelberg, William Hodges, Thomas Jones, Joseph Wright, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Richard Wilson (1714–82), Vale of Narni, c.1760. Oil on canvas, Brinsley Ford Collection The exhibition is co-curated by Martin Postle, Deputy Yale University Press for the Yale Center for British Art, Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies also contains contributions by Steffen Eggle, Oliver in British Art, and Robin Simon, Visiting Professor of Fairclough, Jason Kelley, Ana Maria Suarez Huerta, English, University College London and Editor of The Lars Kokkonen, Kate Lowry, Paul Spencer-Longhurst, British Art Journal. The exhibition catalogue, published by Jonathan Yarker, Scott Wilcox and Rosie Ibbotson.

The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Mark Hallett Deputy Director of Studies: Martin Postle Assistant Director for Research: Sarah Victoria Turner Assistant Director for Finance and Administration: Sarah Ruddick Librarian: Emma Floyd Archivist and Records Manager: Charlotte Brunskill Picture Research and Online Cataloguing: Maisoon Rehani Events Co-ordinator and Director’s Assistant: Ella Fleming Yale-in-London Coordinator: Nermin Abdulla Fellowships and Grants Manager: Mary Peskett Smith Editor Research Projects: Guilland Sutherland Administrative Assistant: Lyndsey Gherardi Archives and Library Assistant: Jenny Hill Archives and Library Assistant: Frankie Drummond Senior Research Fellows, Special Projects: Hugh Belsey, Elizabeth Einberg, Alex Kidson, Eric Shanes, Paul Spencer-Longhurst Advisory Council: Iwona Blazwick, Alixe Bovey, David Peters Corbett, Penelope Curtis, Michael Hatt, Nigel Llewellyn, Richard Marks, Andrew Moore, Gavin Stamp, Christine Stevenson, Shearer West, 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 Spring 2014

RESEARCH SEMINARS RESEARCH LUNCHES

Wednesdays, 5.45–7.45 PM Fridays, 12.30–2.00 PM

Our Spring series of research seminars will feature The Spring programme of research lunches is geared to papers given by distinguished historians of British art doctoral students and junior scholars working on the and architecture. Seminars typically take the form of history of British art and architecture. They are intended hour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and are to be informal events in which individual doctoral geared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-trade students and scholars talk for half an hour about their professionals and research students working on the projects, and engage in animated discussion with their history of British art. peers. A sandwich lunch will be provided by the Centre. We hope that this series will help foster a sense of 15th January community amongst PhD students and junior colleagues Christine Riding (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) from a wide range of institutions, and bring researchers Turner and the sea together in a collegial and friendly atmosphere.

29th January 24th January Rosemary Hill (All Souls College, Oxford) Samuel Bibby (Associate Editor of Art History) Anglo-Norman attitudes: cross-channel antiquarianism The pursuit of understanding: The Burlington Magazine, 1789-1850 Art History, and the periodical landscape of twentieth-century Britain 12th February Tanya Harrod (Independent scholar) Modern pots, colonialism and the politics of craft: the 7th February conflicted life of Michael Cardew Lucinda Lax (University of York) Sermons in paint: Edward Penny and the reinvention of 26th February genre painting ONE OBJECT, THREE VOICES The Cenotaph 21st February Roger Bowdler (English Heritage), David Odgers James Alexander Cameron (Courtauld Institute of Art) (Odgers Conservation Consultants) and Guests Sedilia in English churches: challenges and discoveries in the study of parish church architecture 12th March John Brewer (California Institute of Technology) 7th March Depicting Vesuvius: painting, panorama and performance, Sarah Thomas (Birkbeck, University of London) 1760-1830 James Hakewill and the politics of slavery

14th March Details about the Research Seminars and Research Nicola MacCartney (Birkbeck, University of London) Lunches can also be found on the Centre’s website, Art world dissidents and their alternative identities: art and www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk language, Bob and Roberta Smith, Spartacus Chetwynd and Lucky PDF

It is essential that anyone who plans to attend individual research seminars and research lunches emails the Centre’s Events Co-ordinator, Ella Fleming, at least two days in advance: [email protected] THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Research Events at the Centre Autumn 2013

As well as our regular research seminars and lunches, we hosted and collaborated on several other research events in Autumn 2013.

COURT, COUNTRY, CITY 26–27 September In late September, the Centre hosted a two-day publication workshop featuring scholars associated with the University of York–Tate Britain research project Court, Country, City: British Art 1660-1735. Participants presented a wide variety of papers dealing with late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century British art and architecture, preparatory to a major publication that will appear as part of the Yale Center for British Art’s Studies in British Art series.

ARIAH 24–26 October The PMC hosted the business meeting of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH) at the end of October. This was attended by an international group of representatives from research institutions worldwide. We organised a busy schedule of visits and talks in and around London, including trips to the British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Sir John Soane’s Museum and Dulwich Picture Gallery. Peter Lely, Diana Kirke, later Countess of Oxford, c.1665, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection From the Court, Country, City workshop

TRANSFORMING TOPOGRAPHY 22 November A workshop entitled Transforming Topography, was held on November 22nd at the British Library. Ten scholars gave presentations on images from King George Ill’s Topographical Collection at the British Library, ranging from views of Chichester to maps of Barbados.

CONSTABLE WORKSHOP 29 November The Centre also hosted a workshop on November 29th, which brought together the curators of two forthcoming Constable exhibitions, Mark Evans (V&A) and MaryAnne Stevens (RA), to discuss these shows with an invited audience of scholars and experts in the field of Constable studies.

CONTEMPORARY PAINTING IN CONTEXT 13 December On December 13th, the Centre hosted a conference, Contemporary Painting in Context, designed in collaboration with the curators of the Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists exhibition, which is currently being displayed at Tate Britain. Tickets sold out within a couple of days and we hope that this will be the first of many Prince 2011/2012 by Gillian Carnegie research events to focus on contemporary art in Britain. © Gillian Carnegie Photo: Lothar Schnepf, courtesy Galerie Giesla Capitain, Cologne From the Contemporary Painting in Context conference THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT AWARDS Fellowship and Grant Awards At the October 2013 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Grants were awarded:

CURATORIAL RESEARCH GRANTS Keren Hammerschlag: Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Ashmolean Museum to help support a research curator Resurrection for 2 years on the project The Kiss of James Gillray from Edward Juler: Grown but not Made: British Modernist the New College Collection Sculpture and the New Biology British Library to help support a research curator for 2 Yat Ming Loo: The Chinese East End years on the project Transforming Topography Henry Miller: Politics Personified: Portraiture, Caricature Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum to help support 2 and Visual Culture in Britain, 1830-1880 research curators for 2 years on the project The ecclesiastical Lucy Peltz: Facing the Text: Extra-Illustration, Print work of the British Arts and Crafts Movement, 1850-1914 Culture, and Society in Britain, 1769-1840 Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum to help Gregory Salter: Cold War At Home: John Bratby, The Self support a research curator for 2 years on the project The and the Nuclear Threat Art of Deception: The work of the Leamington camouflage Rosemary Shirley: Everyday Country: Rural Modernity, group in the Second World War Everyday Life and Visual Culture Royal Academy of Arts to help support a research curator Julia Skelly: Wasted Looks: Addiction and British Visual for 1 year on the project Jean Étienne Liotard Culture, 1751-1919 Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum to help support a Kimberley Skelton: The Paradox of Body, Building and research curator for 3 years on the project Slade Painters Motion in Seventeenth-Century England in Dorset I: The Edwardians and Slade Painters in Dorset II: Between the Wars Joy Sleeman: Five Sites for Five Sculptures: Roelof Louw and British Sculpture since the 1960s The Stephen Lawrence Gallery to help support a research curator for 18 months on the project Stockwell Rebecca Wade: Art versus Industry? New Perspectives on Depot and The London Artists’ Studio Movement Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain Strawberry Hill Trust to help support a research curator PUBLICATION GRANTS (PUBLISHER) for 1 year on the project The Strawberry Hill Collection Ben Uri Gallery, London Jewish Museum of Art: Sarah Tate Britain to help support a research curator for 10 MacDougall (Ed), The Spirit of Place: Joan Eardley, Sheila months on the project Bodies of Nature Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman, L S Lowry UCL Art Museum, University College London to help Fitzwilliam Museum: David Alexander, Caroline Watson support a research curator for 3 years on the project (c.1760-1814) & female printmaking in late Georgian England Spotlight on UCL Art Museum’s Slade Collections Harvey Miller Publishers: Ilana Tahan, Evelyn University of California to help support a research Friedlander, Louise Hofman & Vivian Mann, An English curator for 3 years on the project The Art Collection of Heritage, Jewish Ceremonial art William Andrews Clark, Jr Huntington Library Press: Lucy Peltz, Facing the Text: Victoria and Albert Museum to help support a research Extra-illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain, curator for 3 years on the project The Work of England: 1769-1840 luxury embroideries of the Middle Ages Institute of Contemporary Arts: Anne Massey & Gregor Watts Gallery to help support a research curator for 2 Muir (Eds), A History of the Institute of Contemporary Arts: years on the project Watts Gallery Drawings Research and 40 Years of Modern Art. Cybernetic Serendipity Cataloguing Project Leeds Art Fund: Evelyn Silber (Ed), Festschrift for Terry PUBLICATION GRANTS (AUTHOR) Friedman Ronald Baxter: The Royal Abbey of Reading London Parks and Gardens Trust: Todd Longstaffe- Gowan (Ed), The London Gardener, vol. 18 (2013/14) David Bindman: Warm Flesh, Cold Marble: Canova, Thorvaldsen and their Critics Lund Humphries Publishers: Paul Hills & Ariane Bankes, The Art of David Jones Oliver Bradbury: Sir John Soane’s Influence on Architecture, 1791-1980 – A Continuing Legacy Manchester University Press: Edward Juler, Grown but not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology Leo Damrosch: Eternity’s Sunrise: An Introduction to William Blake Modern Art Press: Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon: catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings and three-dimensional works Paul Dobrazczyk: Iron, Ornament & Architecture in Victorian Britain: Myth and Modernity, Excess and Enchantment Parthian Books: Peter Lord, A New History of Welsh Art Alison FitzGerald: Silver in Georgian Dublin: Making, Paul Holberton Publishing: Steven Parissien (Ed), Selling, Consuming Canaletto: Celebrating Britain THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE COLLECTIONS Collections THE DENNIS SHARP ARCHIVE

Earlier this year the Centre acquired, by kind donation, the archive of Dennis Sharp (1933-2010) from his widow, Yasmin Sharif. The archive focuses on Sharp’s long term interest in the work of 1930s architects Connell, Ward and Lucas, many of whose buildings have iconic status today. As our first archive collection concerning modernist Traced plan of a building on the Park Wood Estate, Ruislip, built 1934, architecture, it is an important acquisition for the Centre. in the Dennis Sharp Archive, box 11. Sharp was a partner in Dennis Sharp Architects and a The Dennis Sharp Archive has not yet been catalogued, prolific author on the subject of architecture, editor of the but is open for consultation. A box list is available on our AA Quarterly, and among other things co-founder and website. The Centre’s Library collection also includes chairman of the Royal Institute of British Architects material on early and mid-20th-century architecture and Architecture Centre. Alongside Sharp’s own research architects, as well as material on house and garden design. papers, this collection also includes original records from A special lecture to celebrate the acquisition of the the Connell, Ward and Lucas practice. archive will be held at the Centre in Spring 2014.

Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies: Jessica RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS Berenbeim, Art of Documentation: Documents and Visual Antonio Brucculeri for research on The École des Beaux-Arts Culture in England, c.1250-c.1450 and the training of British architects in London, 1860-1960 Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA): Philip Cottrell for research on ‘An Ideal Gallery on Paper’: Sir Jill Seddon and Peter Seddon Public Sculpture of Sussex George Scharf ’s Survey of British Collections, 1856/7 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists: Brendan Flynn, A Clarisse Godard Desmarest for research on Women and Place for Art: The Story of the Royal Birmingham Society of Architecture in 18th-century Scotland Artists Sarah Hendriks for research on Spaces for Secular Music Royal Pavilion & Museums: Stella Beddoe, A Piece of the Performance in 17th-century England Action: Henry Willett’s Ceramic History of Britain Louise Hughes for research on ‘As Seen’: Modern British Seraphim Press Ltd: William Waters, Edward Burne-Jones, Painting and Visual Experience Henry Holiday & Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870-1898 Allison Ksiazkiewicz for research on Aesthetics, art and the Spire Books: Michael Hill, West Dorset Country Houses earth sciences Tate Britain: Andrew Wilson (Ed), Painting Now: Five Caroline McGee for research on The work of John Hardman Contemporary Artists and Company, Birmingham in Ireland, 1850-1914 Twentieth Century Society: Elain Harwood and Alan Diana Maltz for research on The Child in the House: Lifestyle Powers (Eds), Cross-country: architect-designed houses of the Aestheticism, Visual Culture, and Family Identity, 1800-1910 twentieth century Chloe Northrop for research on Fashioning Creole Society in Wallace Collection: Lucy Davis and Mark Hallett (Eds), Eighteenth-century British Jamaica Sir Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint Caitlin Silberman for research on ‘I Believe We Shall Be Watts Gallery: Nicholas Tromans (Ed), Ellen Terry: The Crows’: Thinking with Birds in Britain, 1840-1900 Painters’ Actress Heidi Strobel for research on Stitching the Stage: Mary Whitechapel Gallery: Kirsty Ogg, Contemporary Art Linwood and the Art of Installation Embroidery Society and Whitechapel Gallery Collections Displays Meaghan Whitehead for research on The Wheel of Fortune William Shipley Group: Susan Bennett (Ed), ‘Almost in Medieval English Art Forgotten’: The International Exhibition of 1862 Michelle Wilkinson for research on V is for Veranda: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME GRANTS ‘Architecting’ in British Guiana Central St Martins College of Art and Design grant Allison Young for research on ‘Torn and Most Whole’: Zarina towards a 2-day symposium: Recovering Fonthill 1560-2013 Bhimji and the Culture Wars in Britain, 1970-2002 Holburne Museum, Bath grant towards a study day: BARNS-GRAHAM RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT Joseph Wright of Derby: Bath and Beyond Lee Hallman for research on Staking Ground: The London Institute of Contemporary Arts grant towards a Landscapes of Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, 1950 to programme of talks: Richard Hamilton: Talks Programme Present University of Leeds grant towards a 2-day conference: Spring 2014 closing date for applications The Period Room: Museum, Material, Experience 15 January 2014 THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Queen Caroline: The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: The Duchess’s Shells: Cultural Politics at the Early An Anglo-Irish Country House Natural History Collecting in the Eighteenth-Century Court Museum Age of Cook’s Voyages Joanna Marschner Edited by Arthur MacGregor Beth Fowkes Tobin

As the wife of King George II, This beautiful book reveals the Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the Caroline of Ansbach became queen of fascinating history of the cabinet of 2nd Duchess of Portland, was one of England in 1727. Known for her curiosities belonging to the Cobbe the wealthiest women in intelligence and strong character, family, who created it around 1750 at 18th-century Britain. She collected Queen Caroline wielded considerable Newbridge House (Co. Dublin) and fine and decorative arts (the Portland political power until her death in developed it over the following Vase was her most famous 1737. She was enthusiastic and century. Now housed at Hatchlands acquisition) but her great love was energetic in her cultural patronage, Park (Surrey), it has changed so natural history, and shells in engaging in projects that touched on little since 1850 that it offers a particular. Over the course of twenty the arts, architecture, gardens, virtually unique time-capsule of a years, she amassed the largest shell literature, science and natural private cabinet from the period of collection of her time, which was philosophy. This meticulously the Enlightenment, once common in sold after her death in a spectacular researched volume surveys country houses throughout Britain auction. Beth Fowkes Tobin Caroline’s significant contributions but now all but lost to view. The illuminates the interlocking issues to the arts and culture and the ways enormous range of surviving objects surrounding the global circulation of in which she used her patronage to and specimens (including natural resources, the strengthen the royal family’s ethnographic specimens, antiquities, commodification of nature, and the connections between the recently natural history, geology) is construction of scientific value installed House of Hanover and illustrated by specially commissioned through the lens of one woman’s English society. She established an photography and catalogued by marvellous collection. This unique extensive library at St. James’s scholars in the respective fields, who study tells the story of the Palace, and her renowned salons discuss also the place of the cabinet collection’s formation and dispersal – attracted many of the great thinkers of curiosities in Enlightenment from the sailors and naturalists who of the day; Voltaire wrote of her, ‘I society, the history of the Cobbe ferried rare specimens across oceans must say that despite all her titles family and the uniquely surviving to dealers’ shops and connoisseurs’ and crowns, this princess was born display cabinets, in which the cabinets on the other side of the to encourage the arts and the collection is still displayed. world. Exquisitely illustrated, this well-being of mankind’. Arthur MacGregor was, until his book brings to life Enlightenment Joanna Marschner is Senior retirement in 2008, senior assistant natural history and its cultures of Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, keeper in the Department of collecting, scientific expeditions and with responsibility for the State Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, vibrant visual culture. Apartments and Royal Ceremonial Oxford, and is an expert in the Beth Fowkes Tobin is Professor of Dress Collection, Kensington Palace. history of collecting. English and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia.

March April April 232 pp. 265x220mm.120 colour, 40 b/w illus. 400 pp. 275x245mm. 200 colour, 100 b/w illus. 240 pp. 241x170mm. 30 colour, 35 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19777-8 £40.00* HB ISBN 978-0-300-20435-3 £45.00* HB ISBN 978-0-300-19223-0 £40.00* THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Space, Hope and Brutalism: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester Reynolds: English Architecture, 1945–1975 and the World of Elizabethan Art Portraiture in Action Elain Harwood Elizabeth Goldring Mark Hallett

This is the first major book to study This book is the first comprehensive Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first English architecture between 1945 survey of aristocratic art-collecting President of the Royal Academy of and 1975 in its entirety. Challenging and patronage in Elizabethan Arts in London, was the most previous scholarship on the subject England, as seen through the celebrated and innovative British and uncovering vast amounts of new activities of Robert Dudley, Earl of portraitist of the eighteenth century. material at the boundaries between Leicester. One of the most He was acclaimed for transforming architectural and social history, Elain fascinating and controversial people portraiture into an art form that had Harwood structures the book around of his day, Leicester was also the all the ambition, depth and building types to reveal why the most important patron of painters at animation of history painting, and architecture takes the form it does. the Elizabethan court. He amassed a that could communicate the most Buildings of all budgets and styles substantial art collection, including complex personal, psychological and are examined, from major commissioned works by Nicholas social narratives. This book offers a universities to the modest café, from Hilliard, Paolo Veronese and deeply researched and compellingly private houses, hotels and theatres to Federico Zuccaro; helped foster the written investigation of the town halls, train stations and places birth of an English vernacular portraiture that brought Reynolds of worship. The book is illustrated discourse on the visual arts; and was such fame. It offers close readings of with stunning new photography that an early exponent, in England, of the his most striking and intriguing reveals the logic, aspirations and Italian Renaissance view of the canvases, and pays particular beauty of hundreds of buildings painter as the practitioner of a attention to the dynamic ways in throughout England, at the point liberal art and, thus, fit company for which he exploited the new forms of where many are disappearing or are the educated and well-born. print culture and pictorial display being mutilated. Space, Hope, and Although Leicester’s collection and that were emerging in late Brutalism offers a convincing and personal papers were dispersed after eighteenth-century London. lively overview of a subject and his death, this volume’s pioneering Reynolds: Portraiture in Action offers a period that fascinates younger research reconstructs his lost world highly original reassessment of an scholars and appeals to those who and, with it, a turning point in the especially important and influential were witnesses to this history. history of British art. figure in the history of British art. Elain Harwood is Senior Elizabeth Goldring is an Associate Mark Hallett is Director of Studies, Architectural Investigator, English Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Heritage. the Renaissance, University of British Art. He is the author of, Warwick. among other books, The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth, also published by Yale.

May May June 512 pp. 285x245mm. 280 colour, 120 b/w illus. 304 pp. 256x192mm. 50 colour, 175 b/w illus. 464 pp. 290x250mm. 350 colour, 10 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-20446-9 £50.00* HB ISBN 978-0-300-19224-7 £40.00* HB ISBN 978-0-300-19697-9 £50.00*