Attingham Trust Newsletter 2019.Indd

THE ATTINGHAM TRUST for the study of HISTORIC houses and collections

ISSUE 17 ANNUAL REVIEW 2019

Chairman’s Foreword Sir John Lewis

he courses run by The Attingham Trust this Wees from the Metropolitan Museum (see AFA report Tyear attracted, as always, a wide range of below). Many of us already know her well and we feel specialists from across the world stimulating debate extremely fortunate that such an able person is ready and discussion. Keeping open such channels of to take up the reins. We look forward to working with communication is increasingly important and makes her in the future. the purpose of Attingham evermore vital and relevant. We could not operate of course without the generous support of our donors and the loyalty and dedication On behalf of The of our staff on both sides of the Atlantic. To this end Attingham Trust, the our heartfelt thanks go to Sheila ffolliott, who has trustees, officers and decided to step down as President of the American council members would Friends, a post she has held for the last five years. She like to congratulate has given so much of her time to this leadership role, John Lewis on his which she has approached with characteristic flair, knighthood for services enthusiasm and determination, spreading the word to the Arts and to about Attingham in America and Europe as well as in John and Suzy Lewis at Philanthropy, awarded fundraising for scholarships. We greatly appreciate Buckingham Palace, February in the 2019 New Year’s her efforts on all fronts and will miss her. At the same 2019 Honours list. time, we warmly welcome to the position Beth Carver

American Friends of Attingham Sheila ffolliott • AFA President

019 found the American Friends of Attingham busy century houses and terrific “Southern Hospitality.” 2with our usual round of activities, starting out with our January Midwinter Reunion, once again held in As I write this, we’re preparing for our Fall Benefit conjunction with the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Lecture, to be delivered by Tim Knox, Director of the Avenue Armory. Among the guests filling the room was Royal Collection Trust. As always, we appreciate the Rebecca Lyons, Director of Royal Collection Studies, many American Friends who support the Lecture who was in New York for research. The next day AFA and contribute to our Annual Appeal. We gratefully Secretary and incoming President, Beth Carver Wees, received the largest single gift to our endowment ’81, RCS ’04, Wriston Curator of American Decorative in our history made in memory of David Reese ’83. Arts, provided a tour of the stunning exhibition at the Providing valuable scholarship assistance for years Metropolitan Museum that she helped curate, Jewelry: to come, the gift acknowledges David’s appreciation The Body Transformed. Another AFA Board Member, for the scholarship he received to attend the Summer Jason Busch, hosted a tour at the American Folk Art School. Museum, which he now directs. Spring saw a group travel to Thomasville, Georgia for our annual Study Trip, It has been a real pleasure and privilege to serve as organized by Whitney White ’16, SP ’18. Because of its President of the American Friends of Attingham for climate and long-leaf pine forests, Thomasville was a the past five years. I have taken particular pride in favorite winter resort with perfect quail habitat. As a watching our alumni land new jobs or promotions, result, many northerners built plantations devoted to produce significant publications and exhibitions, and shooting. We were treated to some amazing early 20th support preservation and education efforts.

1 COMMENTARY Jennifer Scott

with Attingham alumni Quentin Buvelot (Mauritshuis) and Rupert Goulding and David Taylor (National Trust) to devise a three- venue touring exhibition, Prized Possessions: Dutch Masterpieces from National Trust Houses (The Holburne Museum, The Mauritshuis and Petworth, 2018- 19). When scheduling Tapestry Here and Now (Holburne Museum, 2017) I had confidence in my knowledge of textiles from Annabel Westman’s teaching. When I work with colleagues today at Dulwich Picture Gallery to create a welcoming visitor experience, I think of the summer school Jennifer Scott (right) and Zoë Skelding at the final party on the Attingham Summer discussions comparing venues School, 2011 from Chatsworth to Cronkhill. And in devising the exhibition he photographs from my Bess of Hardwick. I noted how Rembrandt’s Light (Dulwich Picture TAttingham Summer School this Elizabethan powerhouse Gallery, 4 October 2019 – 2 Feb experience of July 2011 are ‘…made effective use of her 2020), I took inspiration from Lisa joyful. Each one captures smiling time, spending it in building her White’s lecture on the evocative compatriots enjoying the chance legacy, stamping her identity possibilities of light. to share, listen, see, laugh and onto the properties she created.’ learn together. The group was I went on in the report to ponder As you can imagine, I don’t have richly varied, including an architect whether this formidable woman of to look far to keep the Attingham specialising in restoring British innovation and action would have spirit alive at Dulwich; the Gallery’s architecture in North India (who disapproved of a group of mature first Director, and former director was experiencing her first visit to students who seemingly spent of Royal Collection Studies, Giles the UK); lecturers from Harvard and more time contemplating than Waterfield (1949-2016) had a Zagreb universities; a financial- doing. But I reassured myself that lasting influence on the world’s expert-turned-collector; a writer of these three weeks out from our first purpose-built public art gallery. American history; a curator from busy lives were essential in order We honour Giles’ memory each the Czech Republic; a furniture to think clearly, to gain insight year with the Giles Waterfield conservator from Virginia; and the from other people’s expertise and Memorial Lecture by inviting curator of Dr Johnson’s House. experiences, and to comprehend star speakers to present topics I was, at the time, Curator of art and its context in an entirely that we think he would have Paintings at Royal Collection Trust, new way. I concluded: “The doing, enjoyed. This year, on 6 and had assumed that I knew what well, that is what follows.” November, we are hosting the to expect, since I was a regular inimitable Rebecca Lyons (Director contributor to Royal Collection And how it has followed! There of Royal Collection Studies) Studies. But I discovered that is no doubt in my mind that on George IV and his Picture participating in, rather than Attingham changed me. I carry Collecting – an opportunity to teaching on, an Attingham course with me the ideas it forged, not reignite that Attingham spark. is an entirely distinct experience, only in the friendships (so much and one that stays with you better than “contacts”) that were Jennifer Scott has been Director for life. made, but also in my approach to of Dulwich Picture Gallery since my work, which centres on drawing April 2017. She was previously In my written report at the end out the relevance of the past for Director of the Holburne Museum of summer 2011, I reflected on contemporary audiences. When Bath (2014-2017) and Curator of the inspiration we can take from I was Director of the Holburne Paintings at Royal Collection Trust figures of the past, most notably Museum, Bath, I collaborated (2004-2014).

2 Attingham Trust Annual Review 2019 • Number 17 THE 68TH ATTINGHAM SUMMER SCHOOL 4 – 21 July 2019 • David Adshead and Tessa Wild, Directors

The Summer School literally opened up an entirely new world of collections for me, full of unexpected and surprising discoveries. Marcus Pilz, Curatorial Fellow, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Germany

embers of this year’s were delighted to have the MSummer School opportunity to handle and came from 12 different examine pieces in detail. countries, many assisted by The complex iconography scholarships, and brought and layers of meaning of with them a rich and diverse the extraordinary Baroque range of experience and interiors, including the professional specialism. Heaven Room and the Hell Over the course of 18 Staircase by Antonio Verrio days, based in turn in for the 5th Earl of Exeter, Sussex, Derbyshire and were expertly unravelled Bedfordshire, we visited for us by Lydia Hamlett. 29 properties where over Our visit concluded with 80 lecturers, tutors and a fascinating tour of the property staff imparted their recently created Garden of invaluable knowledge. Surprises and the Capability Brown landscape with Lectures by Olivia Horsfall Burghley’s Head Gardener, Turner (Conservation Joe Whitehead. Tim Knox Philosophies), Adriano and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Aymonino (Robert Adam and kindly hosted an evening Ceramics seminar at Burghley House the birth of the ‘True Style party at Avenue House and of Antique Decoration’), Michael Robert Hildyard and Lucy Gibson invited us to explore their personal Hall (The Confirmed Bachelor) and at Flintham Hall and to Richard collections ranged throughout Adam Bowett (Exotic Woods and Craven-Smith-Milnes and his family the house and garden. This the Growth of Empire: 1600-1900) at Winkburn Hall, where as the sun engendered much lively discussion proved especially popular and set on a rather competitive game on contemporary collecting and prompted lively debate and sharing of croquet, he regaled us with the highlighted the impulse to collect of knowledge. At properties, key story of the house’s chequered and display works of art as a contributions were made on silver history and gentle renaissance continuous thread running through by James Rothwell at Petworth and under his family’s care. At the entirety of the course. Our Boughton; Old Master drawings Boughton, the Duke of Buccleuch final morning was spent at Stowe, at Chatsworth by Charles Noble; led a riveting tour of the landscape exploring the glorious eighteenth works by Lely and Van Dyck at and explained his motivation century landscape with Richard Petworth by David Taylor; the De for commissioning Kim Wilkie to Wheeler and the exemplary Grey family monuments at Flitton by design a new landscape feature recent work of the Stowe House Roger Bowdler and opera and the Orpheus in 2007-9. Preservation Trust. country house by Jeanice Brooks at Boughton. The final leg of the Summer Our thanks go to Lorna Gartside, School saw us study Woburn the Summer School administrator, We are privileged to enjoy a Abbey, Elton Hall, Wimpole Hall, for her unrivalled organisation and warm welcome and generous Audley End, Burghley House, unfailing kindness, to all the experts hospitality at a number of private Stowe House and Gardens who generously contributed to houses and are especially grateful and Avenue House, Ampthill. the course and to the members to the owners who open their At Burghley, Jon Culverhouse who shared their knowledge and homes and share family histories gave a rich contextual account insights as the Summer School with such enthusiasm and grace. of the house and the principal progressed. Particular thanks go to Martin collectors. Patricia Ferguson spoke Fiennes and Lord and Lady Saye about the important collection of In 2020, the Summer School will and Sele at Broughton Castle; Sir Oriental ceramics and members take place from 2 - 19 July.

www.attinghamtrust.org 3 ROYAL COLLECTION STUDIES 1 – 10 September 2019 • Rebecca Lyons, Director

This year for example, we Collection Trust and Historic included Kew Gardens and the Royal Palace curators. Generous wonderfully restored pagoda. scholarship assistance was Otherwise the programme included provided by the Basil Samuel Hampton Court, Kensington Trust, the Michael Bishop Palace, Buckingham Palace, St Foundation, Peter and Sally James’s and Frogmore, as well Cadbury, Paula Madden, Stewart as conservation workshops. Rosenblum, Kate de Rothschild, Highlights for participants were Adrian Sassoon, Stephen Weber many and varied - some lectures and Christopher and Sophie North. that provoked special mention Scholarships enable us to provide included the study of monarchs as places for all suitable applicants, collectors, the interest in objects as regardless of their financial means of cultural transfer between circumstances, and without them consorts and their new spouses, or the course would lose its range Kew Palace, Surrey Tudor dress and the rediscovery of international participants and of Queen Elizabeth I’s robe as the thereby much additional knowledge he twenty-fourth session of Bacton Altar cloth. Sessions with and opinion. Thank you to all. TRoyal Collection Studies took Sèvres porcelain, Fabergé objects, place in early September sunshine. miniatures, books and silver all The course was admirably Based as in recent years at remained strong highlights. administered by Sara Heaton, Cumberland Lodge, the setting was whose attention to detail was much once again excellent both in terms We were most grateful to our appreciated. of location and in hospitality. generous hosts at Windsor and the Tower of London, as well as In 2020 Royal Collection Studies Privileged access to private and at Clarence House. All offered will take place from 6 – 15 public royal spaces and collections, very welcome refreshments and a September. as well as to the expertise of their chance to enjoy the settings of their curatorial staff, remains the key historic homes and collections. strength of the course, as well as James Hughes-Hallett CMG the sharing of different views and The group of scholars this year 1949-2019 expertise from across the art world. encompassed an excellent mixture Curators, academics, dealers and of disciplines and professional All of us at The Attingham auction house specialists learned backgrounds, including curatorship, Trust are deeply saddened by from one another every day, as well academia and the commercial the recent death in October as from the many speakers and world. Conviviality and sharing of James Hughes-Hallett, a experts delivering the course. of knowledge were in evidence trustee and our Vice-Chairman. throughout, and the group was Following a distinguished On the first day the Director of the a delight from beginning to end. international business career Royal Collection Trust, Tim Knox, There were representatives of James, with a keen interest welcomed us on behalf of Her the following countries: Australia, in the arts and education Majesty the Queen. The initial focus Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, (he was former Chairman was Windsor Castle with a visit The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, of the Courtauld Institute), led by Dr Steven Brindle whose UK and USA. We are keen to was introduced to Attingham expertise set a high bar for the develop our existing networks by Giles Waterfield and days ahead. A reflective moment in and grateful to some of our most immediately became engaged Evensong at St George’s Chapel, loyal institutions for sending such in our activities. He attended followed by drinks at the Deanery, high calibre participants each year. Royal Collection Studies in and an excursion onto Queen We are also keen to add to our 2015, then directed by Giles, Victoria’s rooftop walkway formed networks with participants from all and contributed enormously the perfect beginning to the course. around the world. to the workings of the Trust with his sound advice and Although the course has many The course is made possible generous manner. He will be ‘set’ components, there are always by the very generous sharing of very sorely missed. AW new additions and experiences. time and knowledge by the Royal

4 Attingham Trust Annual Review 2019 • Number 17 The Attingham Study ProgrammE THE PALACES AND VILLAS OF ROME AND NAPLES 16 – 24 September 2019 • Dr Andrew Moore, Director; Rita Grudzień, Administrative Director

I can safely say that this has been the most rewarding course I have ever taken, and it’s one which will continue to inform both my professional work and my personal interests in the years to come. Sarah Vowles, Curator of Italian and French Prints and Drawings, British Museum

onceived from the perspective the world. This was followed by accompanist Jan Rautio provided Cof travellers who visited Italy to a visit to the private and uniquely a programme of songs and arias experience Rome and Naples during atmospheric Villa Albani Torlonia, as a reminder of the original the period c.1650-1950, this intensive home to the antiquities of Cardinal performative function of evenings programme benefited from the Alessandro Albani, who appointed by invitation within palatial experience of the 2017 Rome and Winckelmann as his librarian and surroundings. Naples Study Programme. Members advisor. The next day we travelled quickly gelled as a warm Outside Naples, the collegiate group from the Programme began with a first evening at the British visit to the Reggia di Caserta, School at Rome, where we built by the Bourbon kings. viewed a special display of By special invitation we rare books, maps and prints enjoyed a tour de force visit to set the scene for another to Vanvitelli’s spectacular Attingham Grand Tour. theatre and a whistle-stop tour of the grand fountains The course members, and gardens. In Naples a all experts in their fields, walking tour of the historic contributed to a rich city took in Pio Monte della experience of information Discussing the Capitoline Wolf, Palazzo Conservatori, Rome Misericordia, home to exchange. A total of 32 Caravaggio’s Seven Works multi-talented members of Mercy, where we learned included 11 museum curators, 2 to Tivoli, to view Hadrian’s Villa of the continuing charitable work Board members, 3 businessmen/ and Villa d’Este to witness the of the institution, followed by the collectors, 1 architect, 2 art dealers development of the Roman Museo Civico Gaetano Filangieri, and auctioneers, 2 former directors, villa, taking in the view of the the Treasury Chapel and Museum 1 art advisor, 2 PhD candidates, much-painted Falls set within the of Saint Gennaro and the National 5 historians, 2 landscape landscape park of Villa Gregoriana. Archaeological Museum. historians and 1 archivist. In all nine countries were represented: The Programme continued with two A full day outside Naples took Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, packed days, visiting a series of the in Herculaneum and considered Italy, The Netherlands, Russia, most magnificent private palaces the impact of its discovery upon Sweden, UK and USA. Several in Rome: the quintessential Palazzo the development of Portici. In the full and partial scholarships were Colonna; Villa Boncompagni afternoon we studied the Reggia di awarded, including among others Ludovisi where our host and Portici, with its botanical gardens, those provided with the generous guide, Princess Rita Boncompagni and Villa Campolieto. Our last support of the Monument Trust, Ludovisi, showed us the celebrated evening was at Villa Leonetti, Caroline Rimell, Sir Nicholas and frescoes by Guercino and thanks to the invitation of Gianpaolo Judith Goodison, American Friends Caravaggio; the rarely visited Leonetti and his family. A final visit of Attingham and David Wilton. Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi to view the Farnese collections A number of institutions also with its celebrated Casino ceiling at the Museo di Capodimonte supported their candidates. fresco by Guido Reni, Apollo in his provided one last surprise: a chariot; the Palazzo Spada and spectacular exhibition of objects Site visits began at the Capitoline finally the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. from the stores, providing one last Museums, including both the At the generous invitation of insight into this extraordinary city. Palazzo dei Conservatori and Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj Palazzo Nuovo, home to the we enjoyed an inspiring recital In 2020, the Study Programme on papal collections and the site in his private apartment. Guest ‘The Historic House in Ireland’ will considered the first museum in soprano Nadine Benjamin and her take place from 3 – 11 June.

www.attinghamtrust.org 5 THE LONDON HOUSE COURSE 1 – 7 October 2019 • David Adshead, Director

his year’s London House the East (the City, Spitalfields and residents of London, and benefitted TCourse miraculously Mile End), West (St. James’s and from the inspiring contributions of an dodged the torrential rain that Holland Park), and North (Camden architect and an artist. In addition to Hurricane Lorenzo unleashed and Hampstead), by means of all the individuals who enriched the on the city. As in previous years contextualising lectures, walking week, we thank: the Charterhouse, the programme progressed tours, and visits, while a study of Georgian Group, Historic Royal chronologically from a study of architectural drawings relating to Palaces, Lambeth Palace, Paul London’s fragmentary Medieval the development of the London Mellon Centre for Studies in British and Early-Modern architecture, House, drawn from the rich Art, RIBA, SJSM, Survey of London, through the fundamental changes collections of the Royal Institute of and V&A. Rebecca Parker, the in urban planning and fabric that British Architects (RIBA), Victoria course administrator, and I would followed the Restoration, Great and Albert Museum (V&A) and also like to thank the course Fire and destruction of Whitehall Sir John Soane’s Museum (SJSM) members drawn from around Palace, to the speculative estate served to top and tail the course. the world, for their enthusiastic developments of the eighteenth contribution to our week long and nineteenth centuries. More We were welcomed with great odyssey through London’s history recent houses and housing, both generosity and hospitality by both and her damp streets. public and private and reflective private owners and institutions, of different social and economic enjoyed expert lectures and guided The London House Course will run circumstances, were explored in tours from historians, curators and again in 2021 COURSE Members • NATALIA ABRAMOVA • RICHARD MCLOUGHLIN • JAMES RUSSIELLO Head of European Metalwork Department Director, Senior Conservation Architect Lotts Landmarks Preservationist, The City of New The Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia Architecture and Urbanism Ltd, Ireland York Landmarks Preservation Commission, • ROBERT ADAMS • KATE MENCONERI USA Principal, Owner, Robert Bentley Adams & Curator, Director of Exhibitions and • AGNIESZKA SADRAEI Associates, PC, USA Collections Thomas Cole National Historic Historic Buildings Curator (Tower of London) • VICTORIA BELLAMY Site, USA Historic Royal Palaces, UK Heritage Consultant Alan Baxter Ltd, UK • CHARLES MITCHEM-DIAGO • JANA SCHUSTER • CORNELIS VAN DER BAS Senior Design Manager Interior Architects PhD Candidate in Architectural History, Curator, Museum Huis Doorn, The (IA), USA Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, Netherlands • JAN MOONEY University of Cambridge, UK • MAUREEN CASSIDY-GEIGER Adjunct Lecturer, Duke University in • JAY ROBERT STIEFEL Curator, Trian Partners, USA Durham, NC; Bellevue University in Historian and Author, USA • ADAM ERBY Bellevue, NE, USA • CAROLINE TONNA Associate Curator, George Washington’s • LISA MOORE Museum Curator, Palazzo Falson Historic Mount Vernon, USA Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, USA House Museum, Malta • JERRY FOUST • SARAH MURPHY • KARINE TSOUMIS Historic Site Director, Dumbarton House/ Manager Interpretation and Collections, Curator, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, NSCDA, USA National Trust for Western Australia Canada • MARY GLERUM • CRISTIANA PLEDGER • RORY TYLER Volunteer, Art Institute of Chicago, USA Principal, Pledger Architect, PLLC, USA Educator, The Frick Collection, NY, USA • SUNNI GOODSON • MICHAEL QUEALE • MIN-ZHENG VENEAU Historic Buildings Consultant, Fitzgerald Senior Heritage Conservation Architect Director, MV Art Advisory, Hong Kong Kavanagh & Partners Architects, Ireland Heritage South Australia, Australia • JEFFREY WEAVER • BILL HOBBS • MATHILDE RONDOUIN-BERGER Associate Curator, Sculpture and Former Managing Partner Carousel Capital Journalist for Art Exhibition and Art Decorative Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum, CA, Partners, USA Historian, Le Petit Journal and ISC Paris USA Business School, Hong Kong The Attingham Society Annabel Westman • Executive Director

he year started with a very publication, The Country House Susan Jenkins; a day at Chatsworth Tsuccessful and well-attended Past, Present and Future co- to see The Dog exhibition with its Annual Reunion. Most generously authored with Sir David Cannadine. curator, Tessa Wild and the Duchess sponsored by Christie’s to whom Other activities included a second of Devonshire and an early morning we give very grateful thanks, the chance to see the Queen’s visit to Masterpiece introduced by evening included a talk by Jeremy Diamond Jubilee Galleries at the Chairman, Philip Hewatt-Jaboor. Musson based on his recent Westminister Abbey thanks to Thanks to everyone involved.

6 Attingham Trust Annual Review 2019 • Number 17 donors and GRANTS Annabel Westman • Executive Director

he demand for scholarships has accommodation, transport and who help to fund their employees. I Tbeen high this year, particularly house entry fees, the situation is would also say a very special thank for the Summer School and Study getting tougher every year and we you to those who contributed to the Programme, but I am pleased to need to look to raising more funds Attingham alumni appeal earlier this say that we just about managed to so that we can continue to meet the year, which resulted in an increase ensure that no eligible applicant demand. To this end we are forever in standing orders and annual was prevented from attending for grateful to the individuals and donations to enable us to award a financial reasons. With costs rising, charitable trusts for their continued more effective annual Attingham mainly as a result of increased support as well as the institutions Society scholarship.

SUMMER SCHOOL Office of Public Works (Dublin) STUDY PROGRAMME The Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation, Inc. American Friends of Attingham (USA) American Friends of Attingham (USA) (USA) American Friends of Attingham Summer School Art Museum of Estonia Royal Oak Foundation (USA) Class of 2018 (USA) Attingham Society Sansovino Scholarship The Attingham Trust British Museum Schloss Waldegg (Switzerland) Avington Scholarship Carl-Göran Adelswärd Foundation (Sweden) Gilbert P. Schafer III (USA) Geoffrey Beard Scholarship (USA) Caroline Rimell Simon Sainsbury Scholarship Bonhams 1793 David Wilton (USA) Giles Waterfield Memorial Scholarship Sybil Bruel Scholarship (USA) English Heritage Welbeck Estates Robert Morris Bush Scholarship (USA) Fondo Ambiente Italiano (Italy) Friends of the Victoria and Albert Museum Chatsworth House Trust Gerry Charitable Trust (USA) Copland Foundation (Australia) Hazel Wood John Cornforth Fund ROYAL COLLECTION Helen Lowenthal Scholarship (USA) The Decorative Arts Trust (USA) STUDIES Holkham Estate Deutsches Forum fur Kunstgeschichte Paris Michael Bishop Foundation J. Stewart Johnson Scholarship (USA) (France) Peter and Sally Cadbury Sir Nicholas and Lady Goodison English Heritage Christie’s (UK) The Monument Trust Richard Griffiths Architects Copland Foundation (Australia) The Moscow Kremlin Museums (Russia) Lewis I Haber & Carmen Dubroc (USA) French Ministry of Culture (France) The National Heritage Institute (Czech Republic) Harewood House Gallerie degli Uffizi(Italy) National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Lillian Hirschmann Scholarship (USA) Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (Germany) Ireland Historic Houses Historic Royal Palaces The State Hermitage Museum (Russia) Historic Royal Palaces Paula Madden (USA) Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser (The Netherlands) Mount Stuart Trust LONDON HOUSE David M. Maxfield (USA) National Maritime Museum COURSE Metropolitan Museum of Art David Wilton National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Alan Baxter Ltd Scholarship (USA) Ireland American Friends of Attingham (USA) Dr Hendrik Muller’s Vanderlasch Fonds (The Christopher and Sophie North Arts and Humanities Research Council Netherlands) Stewart G. Rosenblum (USA) The Attingham Trust The Monument Trust Kate de Rothschild Copland Foundation (Australia) National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Royal Castle in Warsaw (Poland) Fitzgerald Kavanagh & Partners (Ireland) Ireland Royal Collections of The Netherlands Gerry Charitable Trust (USA) National Trust for Scotland Basil Samuel Trust Historic Royal Palaces The National Society of The Colonial Dames of Adrian Sassoon The Moscow Kremlin Museums (Russia) America (USA) Sotheby’s (UK) David L Reese Scholarship (USA) New York Community Trust, Edward Maverick Fund Victoria and Albert Museum (USA) Stephen Weber

Officers: THE ATTINGHAM TRUST 2019 Chairman: Sir John Lewis OBE Vice-Chairman: James Hughes-Hallett CMG Trustees: Executive Director: Annabel Westman FSA Sir John Lewis OBE (Chairman), Diana Berry, Martin Drury CBE, FSA, Treasurer: Ewa Manias James Hughes-Hallett CMG, Sarah Medlam, Rosalind Savill DBE, Assistant to Executive Director: Rebecca Parker FBA, FSA Directors (Summer School): David Adshead FSA, Tessa Wild Director (Study Programme): Dr Andrew Moore Patrons: Director (Royal Collection Studies): Rebecca Lyons HM Ambassador to Washington, The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry KT, KBE, FSA, FRSE, Dr. Thomas P. Campbell, Council: Professor Sir David Cannadine FBA, FSA, Sir Timothy Clifford, Errol Clark, Dr Ben Cowell FSA, Helen Dorey MBE, FSA (Chairman The Lord Crathorne KCVO, KSTJ, FSA, The Duke of Devonshire Scholarship Committee), Prof. Sheila ffolliott FSA (AFA President), KCVO, CBE, Judith Goodison FSA, The Hon. Desmond Guinness, Lorna Gartside (Administrator Summer School), Rita Grudzień John Harris OBE, FSA, The Marquis of Lansdowne LVO, DL, (Administrative Director Study Programme), Sara Heaton Rosemary Lomax-Simpson, Sir Jonathan Marsden KCVO, FSA, Sir (Administrator Royal Collection Studies), Dr Helen Jacobsen Hugh Roberts GCVO, CBE, FSA, The Lord Rothschild OM, GBE, FBA, (Director, French Eighteenth–Century Studies), Tim Knox FSA, Coral Samuel CBE, The Rt Hon Sir Hugo Swire KCMG, MP Dr Martin Postle FSA, James Rothwell FSA

www.attinghamtrust.org 7 THE ATTINGHAM SUMMER SCHOOL MEMBERS 2019 • ANDREAS AFFOLTER • REBECCA BURTON • ELEANOR GOULD • GERLIND RITTER Director of the Museum and Meeting Assistant Curator and Archivist, Longwood Fellow, Longwood Gardens, Furniture conservator, Tankerdale Ltd, Centre Schloss Waldegg, Solothurn, Harewood House Trust, Leeds, UK PA, USA Petersfield, UK Switzerland • VALENTIJN CARBO • LAUREN GREENE • ELIZABETH DEANS ROMARIZ • EMMA ATWOOD Architectural Historian / Conservator, Assistant Curator & Coordinator, PhD Candidate / Visiting Professor of Assistant Professor of English Literature, Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser, Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College Art History, University of York / Capital University of Montevallo, AL, USA Hilversum, The Netherlands of William & Mary, VA, USA University Beijing, USA • FRAN BAKER • STACI CATRON • KATHRYN HARRIS • SHELLEY SELIM Archivist and Librarian, Chatsworth Cherokee Garden Library Director, Chartered Conservation Architect, Associate Curator of Design and House, Bakewell, UK Atlanta History Center, GA, USA Richard Griffiths Architects, London, UK Decorative Arts, Indianapolis Museum of • EMILY BANAS • RAINA CHAO • ROSALIE HOOPER Art at Newfields, IN, USA Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts and Associate Objects Conservator, Saint Project Curatorial and Interpretation • CATHERINE SHOTICK Design, RISD Museum, RI, USA Louis Art Museum, MO, USA Assistant, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, • WILLIAM BATES • LAUREN DRAPALA PA, USA The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, IL, Prof of Architectural Drafting & Design; Ph.D. Student, Bard Graduate Center, • AMANDA ISAAC USA Chair of Architecture & Allied Arts, NY, USA Associate Curator, George Washington’s • FEMKE SPEELBERG American College of the Building Arts, • JÖRG EBELING Mount Vernon, VA, USA Associate Curator, The Metropolitan SC, USA Research Department Director, • COLLEEN KENNEDY Museum of Art, NY, USA • SARAH BEATTIE Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte / Senior Museum Technician, The Colonial • ABIGAIL STAMBACH Curator, Ayrshire & Arran/Dumfries & Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris, Williamsburg Foundation, VA, USA Head of Archives & Special Collections Galloway, National Trust for Scotland, France • MICHAEL KERRIGAN Library, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Maybole, UK • AUDREY FARRELL Executive Director and Chief Executive Gardens, DC, USA • KATHRYN BEDFORD Conservation architect, The Office of Officer, Irish Georgian Society, Inc., IL, • JILL WADDELL Curator of Collections and Interiors (Kent Public Works, Dublin, Ireland USA Vice President, Senior Specialist, Head of and the South Coast), English Heritage, • ANNA FERRARI • SOPHIE LITTLEWOOD Silver Department, Christie’s, NY, USA Dover, UK Project Curator, Victoria & Albert Curator, The Portland Collection, Welbeck • BARBARA WARD • OSCAR BEISERT Museum, London, UK Estates Company Ltd/The Harley Director/Curator, Moffatt-Ladd House and Director, Keeping Society of Philadelphia, • SHANNON FRASER Foundation, Welbeck, UK Garden (NSCDA), NH, USA PA, USA Curator, Northern Ireland, National Trust, • RACHEL LOVETT • CHRISTOPHER WARLEIGH-LACK • AISTĖ BIMBIRYTĖ-MACKEVIČIENĖ Saintfield, UK Curator & Assistant Director, Hammond- Curator, Hillsborough Castle, Historic Curator and museum tour guide, Kazys • HEATHER GOERS Harwood House Museum, MD, USA Royal Palaces, Hillsborough, UK Varnelis House-Museum, Vilnius, Architectural Historian, Historic • JOHN DAVID MYLES • GABRIEL WICK Lithuania Resources Group, CA, USA Self-employed attorney and author, Lecturer and thesis research supervisor, • JOSEPHINE BLOODGOOD • SOPHIE VON DER GOLTZ KY, USA Parsons / The New School, Paris (Dept. Director of Curatorial & Preservation Specialist in European Ceramics, • MARCUS PILZ of Design History) & NYU Paris (Dept. of Affairs, Historic Huguenot Street, NY, USA Bonhams 1793, London, UK Curatorial Fellow, Herzog Anton Ulrich- Fine Arts), Paris, France • LINE BREGNHØI • RACHEL GOTLIEB Museum, Braunschweig, Germany • ANNIKA WILLIAMS Conservator, National Museum of Professor and Adjunct Curator, Sheridan • REBECCA PINCHIN Curator, The National Historical Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark College, Faculty of Arts and Design; Collection Manager, National Trust of Museums, Stockholm, Sweden • LAUREN BRINCAT Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada Australia (NSW), Sydney, Australia • PHILIPPA WOOD Curator, Preservation Long Island, NY, Curator, Burton Constable Foundation, USA Hull, UK ROYAL COLLECTION STUDIES MEMBERS 2019 • CLAUDIA ACOTT WILLIAMS • ANA DEBENEDETTI • ALEXANDER KADER • CARLEIGH QUEENTH • ANTONIA SYME Curator, Collections, Kensington Curator of Paintings, Word and Worldwide head of Sculpture Specialist Head, Ceramics, Director, The Australian Palace, Historic Royal Palaces, Image Department, Victoria and & Works of Art, Sotheby’s Christie’s, NY, USA Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, UK Albert Museum, London, UK London, UK • CARMINE ROMANO Victoria, Australia • MONICA BACON • JUSTIN DETWILER • COURTNEY LONG Head of Digitisation, • ELSBETH VAN TETS Historic Buildings Specialist, Senior Project Manager, John Assistant Curator, Prints and Museum and Royal Palace of Member of the Advisory Research Corporation, Milner Architects, PA, USA Drawings, Yale Center for British Capodimonte, Naples, Italy Board, Rembrandt Association, University of Hawaii, USA • ERIC GILLIS Art, New Haven, CT, USA • CHARLOTTE ROSTEK Amsterdam, The Netherlands • MURIEL BARBIER Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels, • JASMINKA NAJCER SABLJAK Head of Collections, Mount • STEVEN THIRY Inspector for State textiles and Belgium Assistant Professor, Department Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland, UK Flemish Government policy furniture collections, Mobilier • SHARON GOODMAN of Fine Art, University of Osijek, • NADINE ROTTAU advisor on immovable heritage, National, Paris, France Researcher, Furniture Croatia Research Associate, Exhibitions Antwerp, Belgium • MAGDALENA BIALONOWSKA Department, Christie’s, London, • MELANIE VAN OGTROP Manager, Herzog Anton Ulrich • MICHAEL THOMSON-GLOVER Curator and Head of Historical UK Circle Gallery, Amsterdam, The Museum, Braunschweig, Research assistant, BIFMO, Research, The Royal Castle in • ALLISON GOUDIE Netherlands Germany London, UK Warsaw, Poland Curator of Art pre 1800, • GUY OLIVER • ROBERT SIMON • VASILY USPENSKY • LOUISA BROUWER National Maritime Museum, Principal Designer /Managing Art Dealer and Independent Art Curator of Historical and Italian Curator, Eastern England, The Greenwich, London, UK Director, Oliver Laws Ltd, Historian, NY, USA Prints, The State Hermitage National Trust for England, • ALESSANDRA GRIFFO London, UK • LISE STEYN Museum, St Petersburg, Russia Wales and Northern Ireland, UK Curator, Pitti Palace, Gallerie • PASCALE PATRIS Conservator / Restorer, Royal • LARA VAN WASSENAER • KAREN CHASTAGNOL degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy Conservator, Objects Collections of The Netherlands, Paintings Conservator, Curator, Collections, Musée • PETER HOLMES Conservation, The Metropolitan The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands de la Chasse et de la Nature, Peter Holmes Associates, Museum of Art, NY, USA Paris, France Ltd., Furniture Consultancy, London, UK THE ATTINGHAM STUDY PROGRAMME MEMBERS 2019 • REBECKA M. ADELSWÄRD • CHRISTOPHER GARIBALDI • KENT KILLELEA • SARAH MESCHUTT • LUCY PURVIS Architectural Historian and PhD candidate / Former Of Counsel, Jones Day, Lawyer Senior Curator, American Archivist to the Earl of Leicester, Editor / PhD candidate, Dept. of Director, Palace House, National and Collector / Lecturer on Revolution Museum at Holkham Estate, Norfolk, UK Art History, Uppsala University, Heritage Centre for Horseracing Art and Museum Legal Issues, Yorktown, Jamestown-Yorktown • SUSAN RAWLES Sweden & Sporting Art, Newmarket, UK Washington DC, USA Foundation, VA, USA Associate Curator of American • ADAM AMBROS • RUPERT GOULDING • JENNIFER KLOS • MARY MEYER Painting and Decorative Art, Dealer, Antique Furniture and Lead Curator, South West Art Advisor and Independent Board Member, Homewood Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Objects / Founder, Ambros LLC, England, National Trust, Curator, Collector House, Museum, FL, USA VA, USA NY, USA Bristol, UK TX, USA • STINA ODLINDER HAUBO • INA TRUXOVÁ • TERÉZIA ANNA BARDI • NANCY GREEN • DR CORY KORKOW Art Historian, Independent Landscape Architect / Head Historian and Independent Curator of European and Associate Curator of European Scholar, Drottningholm of Department, The National Scholar, Budapest, Hungary American Art, Prints and Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Kulturkonsult AB, Drottningholm, Heritage Institute, Prague, • KATHLEEN BENNETT Drawings, 1800-1945, Herbert F. OH, USA Sweden Czech Republic Scholar, Lecturer and Cultural Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell • JANIS MANDRUS • EKATERINA OREKHOVA • SARAH VOWLES Advisor / Principal, Kathleen University, NY, USA Associate Conservator, Keeper of the Architectural Curator of Italian and French M Bennett & Associates, LLC, • HARRIETTE HAWKINS Medieval and Renaissance Graphic Collection, The State Prints and Drawings, British NJ, USA Consultant and Educator, Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Hermitage Museum, Museum, London, UK • EMANUELA BORIO Greatrex Heritage, PA, USA Museum of Art, NY, USA St Petersburg, Russia • NANCY DE WAART Consultant, Historical Gardens, • ADRIAN HUME-SAYER • KERTTU MÄNNISTE • DR FEDOR PANFILOV Trustee, Tampa Museum of Art / Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Director / Specialist, Country Curator and Collections Curator, Arms and Armour / Founding member of the Florida Florence, Italy House Sales and Private Manager, Art Museum of Estonia Russian State Regalia Museum of Photographic Art, • JULIA DAY Collections, Christie’s, London, Foundation, Tallinn, Estonia Collection, The Moscow Kremlin FL, USA Conservator, Decorative Arts UK • SARAH MEDLAM Museums, Moscow, Russia • LINDA WELD and Sculpture, The Frick • KRISTIAN KAMINSKI Curator Emeritus, Dept. of • MERRIBELL PARSONS Architect and Member of Collection, NY, USA Properties Curator (London), Furniture, Textiles and Fashion, Former Director, Columbus Associate Graduate Faculty, • BERT-JAN VAN EGTEREN English Heritage, London, UK Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Art, OH, USA Wentworth Institute of Independent Art Consultant London, UK • LINDA PASLEY Technology, MA, USA and Collector, Warmond, The Independent Researcher, Netherlands Interior Designer and Lecturer, TX, USA

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