The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art - Yale University June 2007 Issue 24 newsletter

Paul Mellon by Yousuf Karsh, gelatin-silver print 1980 © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 2007 Paul Mellon (1907-1999)

This year is the centenary of the birth of the Centre’s (on 11th July) the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in benefactor Paul Mellon and it is being marked by a series Richmond, Virginia will open the exhibition Great British of exhibitions focussing on his life as a collector and Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale philanthropist. On 17th April the Yale Center for British Center for British Art (until 30th September) which will Art opened the exhibition Paul Mellon’s Legacy transfer to the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, A Passion for British Art (until 29 July) which will transfer Russia for an opening on 23rd October. Many other to open at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on institutions such as the National Gallery of Art in 20th October. At the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Washington, D.C. are organising events to mark Paul Mellon A Cambridge Tribute will open on Paul Mr Mellon’s centenary and the most important of these Mellon’s birthday (11th June) and a few weeks later are listed on the following page.

16 Bedford Square London WC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk Paul Mellon Centre exhibitions Paul Mellon Centenary: selected shows and events

Yale Center for British Art Jaques-Laurent Agasse given to the ‘Paul Mellon’s Legacy: a Passion for museum by Mellon through the British British Art’ (18 April-29 July). Around Sporting Art Trust. Coincides with the 150 works from the collection. Travels exhibition at the Royal Academy. to the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies Sterling Memorial Library in British Art, London Yale University The Centre will support programming ‘Paul Mellon (1907-99):Yale Student, associated with the Royal Academy’s Friend, and Benefactor’. Draws on show. university archives to focus on his undergraduate years. Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox London Works from the Mellon Bank Collection Beinecke Rare Book National Sporting Library to coincide with the Royal Academy and Manuscript Library Middleburg, Virginia Exhibition. Yale University ‘Reflections on a Life with Horses: Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings Fitzwilliam Museum ‘The Road to Yorktown’ (18 June-31 University of Cambridge August). Selections from the from the Paul Mellon Collection at ‘Paul Mellon: a Cambridge Tribute’ Rochambeau Papers and Family the Yale Center for British Art’ (20 (12 June-23 September). Works from Cartographic Archive given by Paul April-March 2008). Mellon’s collection from the Yale Center Mellon in 1992. The Harrison Institute and for British Art juxtaposed with objects Yale University Art Gallery Small Special Collections from the Fitzwilliam to illustrate Library, University of Virginia Mellon’s ties to the United Kingdom. ‘Art for Yale:Acquisitions for a New Charlottesville The museum will also host a Century’ (18 September-13 January ‘Treasures from Paul Mellon’s celebration on Mellon’s birthday, 2008). More than 275 works donated, Library’ (15 May-January 2008). 11 June 2007. promised, or purchased in a special campaign launched in 1998. State Hermitage Museum Christie’s, King Street London St Petersburg Lectures in conjunction with National Gallery of Art ‘Great British Watercolors from the British Art Week Autumn Washington, DC Paul Mellon Collection at (15-22 November) with John ‘The First Impressionist: Eugéne the Yale Center for British Art’ Baskett, friend and advisor, on Boudin’ (until 5 August). Includes 40 (23 October-13 January 2008). ‘Paul Mellon as I Knew Him’ paintings and works from the gallery’s Co-organised by the Yale Center and (13 November) and Duncan collection, mainly gifts from Mr and Mrs the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Robinson, director of the Fitzwilliam Paul Mellon. Travels to the Virginia Richmond. Museum in Cambridge and former Museum of Fine Arts (14 November-27 director of the Yale Center for January 2008). Royal Academy of Arts British Art, on ‘Paul Mellon, the London Collector’ (20 November). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, ‘A Passion for British Art, 1700- Richmond 1850: Paul Mellon’s Legacy’ ‘Paul Mellon: In His Own ‘Géricault to Bonnard: Recent (20 October-27 January 2008). Words’ Gifts from the Mellon Collection’ Around 150 masterpieces from the Yale Screening at the National Gallery (opens 13 June); ‘Great British Center for British Art. of Art, Washington DC (9 June) Watercolors from the Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art Collection at the Yale Center for Tate Britain, London (25 May-end July). A 50-minute British Art’ (11 July -30 September); A display on the golden age of documentary film produced for PBS by ‘The First Impressionist: Eugéne British sporting art (15 October- Joseph Krakora, chief of external and Boudin’ (14 November-27 January January 2008). Includes works by international affairs at the National 2008). George Stubbs, Benjamin Marshall and Gallery of Art.

The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Brian Allen. Assistant Director for Academic Activities: Martin Postle. Assistant Director for Administration: Kasha Jenkinson. Librarian: Emma Floyd. Archivist: Emma Lauze. IT Officer: Maisoon Rehani. Administrative Assistant: Lucy Nixon. Yale-in-London Coordinator: Viv Redhead. Editor, Special Projects: Guilland Sutherland. Special Projects: Judy Egerton, Elizabeth Einberg, John Ingamells, Mary Peskett Smith. Advisory Council: Malcolm Baker, David Bindman, Julius Bryant, Andrew Causey, Stephen Deuchar, Maurice Howard, Joseph Koerner, Lynda Nead, Marcia Pointon, Duncan Robinson, Michael Rosenthal, Kim Sloan, Giles Waterfield. Company Registered in England 983028 Registered Charity 313838

2 Paul Mellon Centre conference State of the Art: Collecting art and national formation c.1800-2000 Wednesday 18 July to Friday 20 July 2007

View of the Naval Gallery in the Painted Hall, by L.H. Michael © NMM

A three-day international conference nationhood across a variety of the exhibition is to consider the at the National Maritime Museum, locations and cultures. history of these collections and Greenwich, London, supported by how they relate to the historical the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies It will also develop these issues away definitions of Britain’s maritime and in British Art. from a purely Eurocentric focus imperial identity. upon the history of nation Since the development of the public formation and the role of art and Full details of the conference art gallery and museum in the early collecting in the evolution of programme, including speakers and 19th century, art and the collecting European nationalism, to explore paper topics, can be found at the of art in Britain have been closely the significance of art collecting National Maritime Museum website: linked to the articulation of national within the history of empire, and for www.nmm.ac.uk/conferences identity and the construction of emergent nation-states outside the nationhood. They have thus European arena. It will also confront Registration information interleaved with debates on national the complex and contentious issues Full registration fee: £60.00. morality, class, race and gender, and within those larger histories, of the A number of student bursaries are the social and civic functions of role of war and looting, and of art available supported by the Paul culture. In recent years ‘cultures of and its collecting as both victim and Mellon Centre for Studies in British collecting’ have been subjects of accomplice of international conflict Art. For further information considerable study in art history, and conquest. on bursaries contact Lucy Nixon at museology and other forms of the Paul Mellon Centre on 020 7580 cultural studies. This international The conference will complement 0311. To book your place on the conference will build on this ‘Art for the Nation’, the recently symposium, contact Mrs Janet research, drawing together a range opened display in the Queen’s Norton, Research Administrator, of academics and curators from House of the various oil paintings National Maritime Museum, national and international collections that make up the Greenwich LONDON SE10 9NF institutions, to consider the issues National Maritime Museum’s total Tel: 020 8312 6716 Fax: 020 8312 surrounding art collecting and holding. One of the principal aims of 6592 E-mail: [email protected] 3 Paul Mellon Centre conference Fruits of Exchange: England, Scotland and Architecture A Conference at the Edinburgh College of Art (14-15 September) and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (5-6 October) Conference Programme Friday 14 September Edinburgh College of Art

9.00 Registration

9.15 Chair (Alistair Rowan) Opening Remarks

9.25 Charles McKean Speculations on British architecture in Scotland

9.50 Richard Fawcett English influence on Scottish church architecture in the 15th and 16th centuries

10.15 Geoffrey Stell Architecture with and without frontiers: the Anglo-Scottish Borders 1560-1707

10.40 Coffee

11.00 Ian Campbell Architectural taste and the Scottish aristocracy, 1575-1725

11.25 Chris Whatley The Union of 1707, the Scottish nation and the British state

11.50 James Simpson Sir John Clerk and the Union from an architectural perspective

12.15 Doreen Grove The military architecture of Sir Gilbert Scott, St Mary’s Episcopalian Cathedral, Edinburgh 1874-1879 © Charles McKean ‘North Britain’, 1650 to1850

The tercentenary of the Act of examine English influences on 12.40 Lunch Union offers an ideal opportunity to Scottish architecture, followed by look at relations between England a second conference in London on 1.40 John Lowrey and Scotland in architecture. This 5-6 October 2007, which will Edinburgh New Town: topic will be addressed in a pair of concentrate on Scottish influences influences from London conferences and tours, focusing on on English architecture. In each architectural exchanges between case a day of talks and debate will 2.05 Gavin Stamp the two nations from the Middle be followed by a day of visits. Sir Gilbert Scott in Scotland: Ages to the present day, and across The events are being jointly what, where and why? the spectrum from royal palaces organised by Ian Campbell of the to garden suburbs. The first Edinburgh College of Art, and 2.30 John Sanders conference, to be held in Edinburgh Andrew Saint, General Editor of Scottish Nationalism in the on 14-15 September 2007, will The Survey of London. Late Victorian Church

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2.55 Julian Holder & Friday 5 October Saturday 6 October Lou Rosenburg Paul Mellon Centre for Studies Coach tour A road too far? Cultural in British Art, London Meet at Tower Hill Station at 9.30 adaptation and the Garden am. After a visit to St Katharine City ideal in Scotland, 9.15 Registration Docks, coach will depart from 1900-1930 To w er Hill at 10 a.m. returning in 9.30 Andrew Saint the afternoon to King’s Cross 3.20 Tea Introduction: Station and the Paul Mellon Centre The Farfrae factor by 5.30 pm. 4.00 Discussion 9.55 Aonghus MacKechnie Proposed itinerary will include: 5.00-6.00 Wine Reception Sir David Cunningham of St Katharine Docks (Telford); 99 Robertland: the Scottish Aldwych (Burnet); St Mary le Strand architectural scene and Saturday 15 September (Gibbs); Scottish Church, Crown James VI & I’s ‘Magna Coach tour Britannia’ Court (Balfour & Turner);Chandos Coach will leave Edinburgh College House (Robert Adam);Knightsbridge of Art at 9.00 a.m. and return to 10.20 Margaret Stewart Barracks (Spence); Cadogan Square Edinburgh Waverley Station and ‘Metaphysical Scots’: Scottish (Shaw, Stevenson,Young); Chelsea College of Art by 5.30 p.m. intellectual and architectural To wn Hall (Brydon); Oakhill Road, creativity in the 18th Century Putney (William Young); Sudbrook Proposed itinerary will include: Park, Petersham (Gibbs); St Michael St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 10.45 Coffee & All Angels, Bedford Park (Shaw). Edinburgh (Scott); Dalmeny House (Wilkins); St Salvador, Dundee 11.15 Stana Nenadic Registration and (Bodley); Albert Institute Dundee Patronage and professional Fee Information identities: Scottish architects (Scott); Perth Bridge (Smeaton); Full Conference: in 18th century London The Binns (Burn); Linlithgow parish Edinburgh and London 14-15 church. 11.40 Alistair Rowan September and 5-6 October £90 The Adam brothers: builders One conference venue: from North Britain Edinburgh 14-15 September or London 5-6 October £50 12.15 Peter Guillery Scottish Dock Builders in Late One conference (lectures only): Georgian London Edinburgh 14 September or London 5 October £35 12.40 Discussion The conference fee (Friday 14 1.10 Lunch September and Friday 5 October) includes tea, coffee, lunch and wine 2.15 Ted Ruddock reception. Participants will be Engineers southbound after expected to provide or purchase 1760 their own lunch on the coach trips (Saturday 15 September and 2.40 Paul Bradley Saturday 6 October). Please note: William Burn, Scottish export for practical purposes numbers on the coach tours may be limited. 3.05 David Walker Edwardian Scots and public building in London To r egister for the conference please forward a cheque and a self 3.30 Tea address stamped envelope to Lucy Nixon,Administrative Assistant, Paul 4.00 Miles Glendinning Mellon Centre for Studies in British Robert Matthew and his circle Art, 16 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 4.25 Final Discussion 020 7636 6730 Robert Adam, Chandos House, London [email protected] 1769-1771 (detail) © English Heritage 5.00-6.00 Wine reception www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk

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Artistic Links between the Early Tudor Courts and Medicean Florence 19-21 September 2007 at Villa I Tatti, Florence

19:00-20:00 15:30 Thomas Campbell Reception in the garden at (Metropolitan Museum of Art, I Tatti for the general public New York) From Papal Rome to Tudor London: Thursday 20th September 2007 The context and significance of Henry 09:00 Registration VIII’s Raphael workshop tapestries

09:25 Opening remarks and 16:30 Susan Foister morning session chaired by (National Gallery, London) Joseph Connors (Director, Antonio Toto and the market for Villa I Tatti) Italian painting in early Tudor England Pietro Torrigiano, Tomb of Henry VII, 1517, Westminster Abbey, London (detail) 09.30 Cinzia Sicca 17:00 Martin Biddle This conference, organised jointly (Università di Pisa) (Hertford College, Oxford) with Harvard University’s Center Giorgio Vasari and the progress of The Palace of Nonsuch for Renaissance Studies,Villa I Tatti, Italian art in early sixteenth-century will focus on the artistic links England 17.30 Final discussion chaired between the early Tudor courts by Joseph Connors and Medicean Florence. The main 10:00 Alan P.Darr emphasis will be on the sculptural (Detroit Institute of Arts) Friday 21st September projects which galvanised the Pietro Torrigiano and his sculpture (site visits) attention of Henry VII and Henry in Henrician England: sources and Morning VIII.The architectural context for influences San Salvi, Cappella Pandolfini alla decorative sculpture will be Badia, Museo del Bargello highlighted together with the 10:30 Louis Waldman Afternoon parallel, growing interest for painting (University of Texas) Santa Trinita, Santi Apostoli, Il documented through imported Benedetto da Rovezzano in England Carmine and the Uffizi works, as well as by the presence of Florentine painters in London. and after Research in these areas has been Registration gathering momentum in the 1980s 11:30 Francesco Caglioti and 1990s but there is still a wealth (Università Federico II, Napoli) Attendance at the conference is free of documentary evidence in archives Benedetto da Rovezzano in Inghilterra: of charge and does not require in both the UK and Italy awaiting novità sulla tomba del cardinale advance booking. The Villa I Tatti careful study.This conference is the Wolsey e poi di Enrico VIII w ebsite can be found at first attempt to gather British, www.itatti.it and includes American and Italian scholars 12:00 Giancarlo Gentilini and information on the Center, calendar together to explore the progress Tommaso Mozzati of events and directions for getting of Renaissance, especially Florentine, (Università di Perugia) to I Tatti. artistic themes in England. After Baccio Bandinelli e il progretto della an opening address by Steven Gunn tomba per Enrico VIII on the evening of 19th September and a day of papers on Thursday 12:30 Discussion 20th September, the final day will be spent visiting relevant sites in Afternoon Session Florence. chaired by Brian Allen

Wednesday 19th September 14:30 Philip Lindley 2007 (University of Leicester) 17:30 Opening remarks by Why were Italian sculptors successful Brian Allen and Joseph Connors in early sixteenth-century England?

18:00 Plenary lecture by 15:00 Maurice Howard Steven Gunn (University of Sussex) (Merton College, Oxford) Italian architects and military Head of the Emperor Augustus by Giovanni Anglo-Florentine contacts 1485-1547: engineers under royal and courtier da Maiano, 1520-21, Hampton Court Palace political and social contexts patronage in the reign of Henry VIII © Yale University Press 6 support for scholarship in British Art awards

Grant Awards At the March meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council, the following grants were awarded:

Senior Fellowships

Dr Daniel Abramson to prepare his book Architecture Dr Richard Williams to prepare his book The in the Age of Obsolescence Reformation of an Icon: Images of Christ in Early Modern England Dr Lene Østermark-Johansen to prepare her book From Front to Back: Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture Junior Fellowships Dr Banmali Tandan to prepare his book British Architecture in Calcutta in the Georgian Age: An Illustrated Jeremy Melius to conduct research in the United Gazetteer & Its Evolution in an Aesthetic and Social Context Kingdom for his doctoral thesis Art History and the Invention of Botticelli Dr Volker Welter to prepare his book Architecture without Quality? - Ernst L. Freud and Bourgeois Modernism in Nathaniel Stein to conduct research in the United Architecture Kingdom for his doctoral thesis London in the Viewer: British Stereoscopy and Urban Embodiments, 1830-1880

Katharine Williams to conduct research in the United Rome Fellowships Kingdom for her doctoral thesis A study of themes in the architecture, symbolism and experience of Great War Dr Viccy Coltman for research in Rome for her book memorials of the 1920s Marble Mania: The art history and historiography of sculpture in Britain since 1760 Shundana Yusaf to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Wireless Sites: Radio and Architecture in Britain (1927-1945) Postdoctoral Fellowships

Dr Tracy Anderson to prepare her book The Crown and Educational Programme Grants the Jewel: Images of royalty and viceroyalty in the spectacle of imperial Britain and India Leeds City Art Gallery grant towards a series of lectures and workshops (September 2007) linked to an Dr Anne Bordeleau to prepare three journal articles Exhibition of Oil Prints by George Baxter from her thesis on Charles Robert Cockerell (1788- 1863) University of Leeds grant towards a conference at Shugborough, Staffordshire (30th March-1st April 2007) Dr Eleanor Fraser Stansbie to prepare three journal on ‘Shugborough - A Rediscovered Centre of Eighteenth- articles from her thesis on Richard Dadd (1817-1886) century Learning.Thomas Anson, James 'Athenian' Stuart and their contemporaries’ Dr Alla Myzelev to prepare three journal articles from her thesis on Peasant Arts Revitalization in England: University of Liverpool grant towards a symposium at Histories and Meanings the Walker Art Gallery and Merseyside Maritime Museum on ‘Joseph Wright of Derby’ (16th-17th Dr Morna O’Neill to prepare her book Walter Crane: November 2007) The Arts and Crafts, Painting, and Politics and an exhibition catalogue 'Art and Labour's Cause is One': Walter Crane and Manchester, 1880-1900

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Grant Awards Research Support Grants Richard Nieman for research in the United Kingdom and France on Monuments to God and Man:The Minor Dr Katherine Acheson for research in London on Cruciform Churches of Anglo-Norman Sussex and the Visual Rhetoric and Seventeenth-Century English Print New Norman Aristocracy Culture Catherine Walden for research in the United Kingdom Elizabeth Bishop for research in London on the on Redemption and Remembrance:The English Episcopal architectural infrastructure of Empire: the British Tomb in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries mitigation of imports via the warehouses of London's The next application for Curatorial Research Grants, Docklands Publications Grants (Author and Publisher), Research Support Grants and Educational Programme Grants is 15 Olga Borodkina for research in the United Kingdom September 2007. on the Aesthetic Movement: Literature and Art Criticism to Visual Arts For further details please visit: www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/support.html or contact The Grants Administrator Dr Antonio Brucculeri for research in the United [email protected] Kingdom on the Urban Approach of Edwin Lutyens between Architectural Composition and Town Planning: A Study in the War Years, 1938-1943 DR MARTIN POSTLE On 1st March Martin Postle Dr Elizabeth Darling for research in the United joined the Paul Mellon Kingdom on the Work and Life of Wells Coates, Centre as Assistant Director Architect-Engineer for Academic Activities. Dr Postle trained at the Dr Bianca De Divitiis for research in St Petersburg on University of Nottingham, Eighteenth-century British Collectors in Naples: A New the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Birkbeck College, Source for the Acquisition of Antique Sculpture University of London. From 1992 to 1998 he was Dr Robert Folkenflik for research in the United Director of the London Kingdom on Portraits of Samuel Johnson Centre of the University of Delaware and Associate Professor of Art History. In 1998 Martin joined the Tate Amy Frost for research in Scotland on Commissions Gallery as Senior Curator, and was, until he took up undertaken by the architect Henry Edmund Goodridge his present appointment, Head of British Art to 1900. (1797-1864) for the 10th Duke of Hamilton He has published extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British Art. His books include Helen Gyger for research in the United Kingdom for Sir Joshua Reynolds. The Subject Pictures (Cambridge oral history interviews with John F.C. Turner and University Press 1995), Gainsborough (Tate and Princeton Christopher Alexander University Press 2002), and, with David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds. A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings Alistair Kwan for research in the United Kingdom on (Yale University Press 2000). Dr Postle’s exhibitions Building Science: architecture and the early modern study include The Artist’s Model. Its role in British Art from of nature Lely to Etty (Kenwood and Nottingham 1991, with Ilaria Bignamini), Angels and Urchins.The Fancy Picture in Professor Susan Morrison for research in the United 18th-Century British Art (Kenwood and Nottingham Kingdom on Images of Excrement in Late Medieval 1998), The Artist’s Model: From Etty to Spencer (Kenwood, England Nottingham and York 1999, with William Vaughan), Art of the Garden.The Garden in British Art, 1800 to the Present Dr John Potvin for research in London on Day (Tate Britain, Belfast and Manchester 2004, with Domesticating Passion: Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Nicholas Alfrey and Stephen Daniels), and Joshua Lett-Haines and the Art of Modern Living Reynolds.The Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain 2005). Dr Postle’s most recent publication is Model and Matthew Woodworth for research in the United Supermodel.The artist’s model in British art and culture Kingdom on the Thirteenth-century Choir and Transepts (Manchester University Press 2006, co-edited with Jane of Beverley Minster Desmarais and William Vaughan). His current projects include work on Gainsborough and Reynolds in Sigrid De Jong for research in the United Kingdom on Richmond upon Thames,Paul Sandby, and an exhibition Rediscovering Architecture. Paestum in Eighteenth- on Johan Zoffany for Tate Britain and the Yale Center century Architectural Thought for British Art, in 2010.

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GEORGE STUBBS, In preparation for many century art and artists in PAINTER years, this is the first Britain yet written. Catalogue Raisonné complete catalogue of Stubbs’s paintings and The author focuses closely Judy Egerton drawings.The full catalogue on Sir Kenneth Clark’s George Stubbs (1724-1806) entries are preceded by an influential War Artists’ is now rightly recognised as in depth study of Stubbs’s Advisory Committee, and one of the greatest and art and career that sets his explores topics ranging most original artists of the work in context. from censorship to artists’ eighteenth century. His finances, from the depiction profound understanding of Judy Egerton is the leading of women as war workers anatomy and his uncanny authority on Stubbs and to the contributions of war ability to translate the study worked both at the Tate art to evolving notions of of nature into remarkably and National Gallery.This national identity and balanced compositions mark catalogue was researched Britishness. Lively and him out from other and written during her insightful, the book adds practitioners in the field of tenure as Senior Research new dimensions to the A BIOGRAPHICAL animal painting. His most Fellow at the Paul Mellon study of British art and DICTIONARY OF frequent commissions were Centre for Studies in British cultural history. BRITISH ARCHITECTS for paintings of horses, dogs Art from 1998-2006. 1600-1840 and wild animals, but Fourth Edition awareness that such subjects September 700pp. Howard Colvin were rated low in the 330x246mm. artistic hierarchy did not 30 b/w + 485 colour illus. The authoritative and now deter him, throughout a ISBN 978-0-30-12509-2 classic work of reference resolute and hard-working £85.00 on the history of British career, from producing architecture contains images that invariably arrest biographical information on attention and frequently some 2,000 architects who strike a deeply poetic note. WAR PAINT practised in England, Art, War, State and Scotland and Wales from Identity in Britain, the time of Inigo Jones 1939–1945 (1573-1652) to that of Brian Foss William Burn (1789-1870) and Sir Charles Barry In this groundbreaking (1795-1860).This new examination of British war edition is the fourth of art during the Second what began in 1954 as World War, Brian Foss A Biographical Dictionary delves deeply into what art Brian Foss is Professor, of English Architects meant to Britain and its Department of Art History, 1600-1840, and 62 newly people at a time when the Concordia University, identified architects and nation’s very survival was Montreal. In addition to about 70 buildings have under threat. Foss probes teaching and publishing, he been added since the the impact of war art on has recently co-curated a previous edition. the relations between art, retrospective exhibition of state patronage and public works by Canadian artist Sir Howard Colvin is More than any other painter interest in art, and he Edwin Holgate. emeritus fellow of St John’s he steadily and considers how this period College, Oxford. He is also uningratiatingly celebrates of duress affected the July 264pp. 270x217mm. the author of Architecture English sporting and country trajectory of British 175 b/w + 35 colour illus. and the After Life and life and reveals himself, as in Modernism. Supported by ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3 Unbuilt Oxford. his ‘incidental’ portraits of some two hundred £35.00 jockeys and grooms, as a illustrations and extensive June 296pp. 234x156mm. most perceptive observer of archival research, the book ISBN 978-0-300-12508-5 different levels of social offers the richest, most £75.00 behaviour. nuanced view of mid-

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SPECTACULAR eighteenth-century supporting a political cause, Elizabeth Prettejohn is FLIRTATIONS actresses with many or making a fortune, or any Professor of History of Art Viewing the Actress in possibilities for other objective, what might at the University of Bristol. British Art and Theatre unconventional role playing, art be? Art historian 1768–1820 both on and off stage. Sarah Elizabeth Prettejohn traces September Gill Perry Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, the emergence of the 320pp. 256x192mm. Mary Robinson, Frances debates in the 1860s and 85 b/w + 40 colour illus. During the Georgian period Abington and Elizabeth their development into the ISBN 978-0-300-13549-7 there was a remarkable Farren are among her cast 1870s, focusing especially on £35.00 proliferation of seductive of leading ladies for whom the principal protagonists of visual imagery and written portrait commissions in role the Aesthetic Movement accounts of female could act as public and their paintings - some PICTURING ANIMALS IN performers. Focusing on the advertisements, and as of the most haunting and BRITAIN 1750–1850 close relationship between forms of social and artistic memorable images in Diana Donald the dramatic and visual arts re-positioning. She shows modern art. at this time, this beautiful how artists such as From fine art paintings by and stimulating book Gainsborough, Reynolds, such artists as Stubbs and explores popular ideas of Hoppner or Lawrence Landseer to zoological the actress as coquette, produced complex images illustrations and popular ‘whore’, celebrity, muse and of female performers as prints, a vast array of creative agent, charting her fashion icons, coquettes, animal images was created important symbolic role in dignified queens or creative in Britain during the contemporary attempts to artists.The result is a rich century from 1750 to professionalise both the interdisciplinary study of the 1850.This highly original theatre and the practice of Georgian actress. book investigates the rich fine art. meanings of these visual Gill Perry is Professor of representations as well as Art History at The Open the ways in which animals University. were actually used and abused. What Diana September 256pp. Donald discovers in this 280x230mm. 85 b/w + 50 At the heart of the book fascinating study is a deep colour illus. are fresh and detailed and unresolved ISBN 978-0-300-13544-2 interpretations of major ambivalence that lies at the £40.00 paintings by Rossetti, James heart of human attitudes McNeill Whistler, Leighton, toward animals. Edward Burne-Jones, Albert ART FOR ART’S SAKE Moore and Simeon The author brings to light Aestheticism in Solomon. Prettejohn also dichotomies in human Victorian Painting investigates the thinking about animals Elizabeth Prettejohn underpinnings of the throughout this key period: movement in French and awestruck with the beauty Gill Perry analyses how This book is the first to German aesthetics and the and spirit of wild animals, these identities were explore the distinctive role writings of its two great people nevertheless constructed and challenged of painting in the debates critics, Algernon Charles desired to capture and through portraits and surrounding the notion of Swinburne and Walter tame them; the belief that exhibition and theatre ‘art for art’s sake’ and Pater.The English painters’ other species are inferior reviews. Using a concept of Aestheticism in Victorian search for the formula to was firmly held, yet at the ‘flirtation’ to illuminate England. In the London best express the idea of ‘art same time animals in eighteenth-century circles of Dante Gabriel for art’s sake’ was a unified stories and fables were perceptions of female Rossetti and Frederic and powerful artistic given human attributes; sexuality, theatricality and Leighton, this artistic undertaking, the book though laws against animal social mobility, Perry argues problem became a shared demonstrates, and the cruelty were introduced, that a fashionable culture of concern: if art is not Aesthetic Movement made the overworking of horses ‘dressing up’ and flirtatious created for the sake of important contributions to and the allure of sport masquerade provided late preaching a moral lesson, or the history of modern art. hunting persisted. Animals

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destroyed, Henry’s Threads of Splendor (Yale how these homes were extensive inventory is here University Press 2007). designed and what their reassembled and reveals varied plans tell us about how, through tapestry, October 440pp. the lives of their residents. Henry identified himself 280x215mm. 114 b/w + with historic, religious and 206 colour illus. Starting with fortified mythological figures, putting ISBN 978-0-300-12234-3 medieval tower houses, the England in dialogue - and £45.00 book traces patterns that competition - with the developed and sometimes leading courts of Early repeated in country house Modern Europe while DESIGN AND PLAN IN design over the centuries. It promoting his own religious THE COUNTRY HOUSE discusses who slept in the and political agendas at From Castle Donjons to bedchambers, where food are central in cultural home. Campbell’s original Palladian Boxes was prepared, how rooms history, Donald concludes, account sheds new light on Andor Gomme and were arranged for official and compelling questions Tudor political and artistic Alison Maguire and private activities, what about them - then and culture and the court’s towers signified, and more. now - remain unanswered. response to Renaissance The way a man thinks Groundbreaking in its aesthetic ideals. about his day-to-day living depth, the volume offers a Diana Donald was and the needs of his rare tour of country houses formerly Head of the household reveals a great for scholar and general Department of History of deal about his ambitions, his reader alike. Art and Design at idea of himself, and his role Manchester Metropolitan in the community. And his Andor Gomme is Emeritus University. She is author house or castle offers many Professor of English of the prize-winning book, clues to his habits as well as Literature and Architectural The Age of Caricature: those of the members of History, Keele University, Satirical Prints in the Age his household.This intriguing and former chairman of the of George III, published by book explores the Society of Architectural Yale. evolution of country house Historians of Great Britain. plans throughout Britain Alison Maguire is an October and Ireland, from medieval independent architectural 256pp. 270x220mm. times to the eighteenth historian. 140 b/w + 140 colour illus. Sumptuously illustrated century.With photographs ISBN 978-0-300-12679-2 with newly commissioned and detailed architectural November £40.00 photographs, this stunning plans of each of the 180 356pp. 280x230mm. re-creation of Europe’s houses under discussion, the 200 b/w + 80 colour illus. greatest tapestry collection book presents a whole ISBN 978-0-300-12645-7 HENRY VIII AND THE challenges the range of new insights into £50.00 ART OF MAJESTY predominantly text-driven Tapestries at the Tudor histories of the period and Court offers a fascinating new Thomas P. Campbell perspective on the life of Henry VIII.Thomas P. Luxurious, beautiful and Campbell is Curator in the portable, tapestry was the Department of European pre-eminent art form of Sculpture and Decorative the Tudor court. Henry VIII Arts and Supervising amassed an unrivalled Curator of the Antonio collection over the course Ratti Textile Center at The of his reign, and the author Metropolitan Museum of weaves the history of this Art. He is the principal magnificent collection into author of Tapestry in the the life of its owner with an Renaissance: Art and engaging narrative style. Magnificence and editor of Now largely dispersed or Tapestry in the Baroque:

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Full details of the following exhibitions and programs publications can be found at www.yale.edu/ycba, by telephoning In 2006 the Yale Center for British Art launched an expanded publica- 001 203 432 2800, or by e-mailing [email protected] tions program with Yale University Press. Recent titles published include Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art, by Matthew Hargraves, with an introduction by Scott Wilcox, exhibitions at the center copublished with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (April 2007); and Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art, with essays by Brian Allen, Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art John Baskett, Jules David Prown, William Reese, and Duncan Robinson, Through 29 July 2007 and catalogue entries by the Center’s curatorial staff, copublished with Co-organized by the Yale Center and the Royal Academy of Arts the Royal Academy of Arts, London (April 2007).

Jem Southam: Upton Pyne visiting fellows 28 August–30 December 2007 Organized in association with the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, July 2007 Cornell University Mia L. Bagneris, PhD candidate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Laura MacCulloch, PhD candidate, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Collaborative PhD funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds University of Birmingham, and Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; 27 September–30 December 2007 Eckart Marchand, Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Reading A catalogue will accompany the exhibition, copublished by the Yale Center in association with Yale University Press, New Haven (September 2007). August 2007 Jason LaFountain, PhD candidate, Department of History of Art and touring exhibitions Architecture, Harvard University; Frank G. Spicer III, PhD candidate, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art 20 October 2007–27 January 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London August–September 2007 Karin Leonhard, Assistant Professor, Institute of Art History, University Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt at the Yale Center for British Art 11 July–30 September 2007, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond September 2007 23 October 2007–13 January 2008, State Hermitage Museum, Robert M. Colls, Professor, University of Leicester; Catherine Walden, St. Petersburg, Russia PhD candidate, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia

Reflections on a Life with Horses: Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings from October 2007 the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art Joseph Monteyne, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Through 29 March 2008, National Sporting Library, Middleburg, Virginia Criticism, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Jenifer Neils, Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University symposium November 2007 The Legacies of Slavery and Emancipation: Jamaica in the Atlantic World Jordan Bear, PhD candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia 1–3 November 2007 University; Catherine Roach, PhD candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study Columbia University of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. For information and to register, please e-mail [email protected] or call 001 203 432 7192. J. M. W. Turner, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (detail), 1817–18, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection