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Saplings Cover 1612 FACE TO FACE Summer:Layout 1 20/5/10 08:37 Page 1 Face to Face SUMMER 2010 My Favourite Portrait by Bill Paterson BP Portrait Award 2010 Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834–1910 1612 FACE TO FACE Summer:Layout 1 20/5/10 08:37 Page 2 COVER DETAIL AND BELOW Geneva by Ilaria Rosselli del Turco, 2010 © Ilaria Rosselli de Turco This work features in the BP Portrait Award 2010 on display from 24 June–19 September 2010 in the Wolfson Gallery Face to Face Issue 33 Communications & Development Director and Deputy Director Pim Baxter Individual Giving Manager Emma Black Editor Elisabeth Ingles Designer Annabel Dalziel All images National Portrait Gallery, London and © National Portrait Gallery, London, unless stated www.npg.org.uk Recorded Information Line 020 7312 2463 1612 FACE TO FACE Summer:Layout 1 20/5/10 14:22 Page 3 FROM THE DIRECTOR AFTER TWO DAYS of intensive viewing and biographies written by a number of eminent discussion of the 2,117 entries for this year’s contemporary writers. These fictitious short BP Portrait Award, we have a wonderful biographies are published in a beautiful book exhibition of 58 portraits opening on 24 June. accompanying the display, and Sarah All submissions were made as original Singleton tells us on page 3 about her paintings, were judged anonymously, and experience working on this project. demonstrated the great variety of styles and approaches to contemporary portraiture. Commemorating the centenary of the death See page 5 for more details of this year’s of Florence Nightingale, Caroline Worthington, shortlisted artists. Director of the newly redesigned Florence Nightingale Museum in London, talks about Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, the life of ‘the Lady with the Lamp’, 1834–1910 is the first retrospective of this complementing our display of Victorian innovative French photographer and includes photographs on the pioneering nurse in many works unseen for the last 150 years. Room 23. Not only is there an exquisite selection from his numerous carte de visite portraits, but also We are also delighted to present a new display Silvy’s pioneering street photography. The of striking paintings by the distinguished exhibition is curated by Mark Haworth-Booth, American artist Alex Katz. He creates bold, previously a curator and now an Honorary powerful and stylish portraits that link to his Research Fellow at the V&A. personal connection with a sitter. Alongside recent paintings, and an earlier table-top The new display, Concealed and Revealed: piece, is a new portrait of the editor of US The Changing Faces of Elizabeth I, highlights Vogue, Anna Wintour. This connects to the the important discoveries of the Making Art in contemporary photographic displays, which Tudor Britain project, and demonstrates a little include An Englishman in New York by Jason of the research on the Collection currently Bell – who delves into the relationship of being carried out. Montacute House, one of those working in New York to their birthplace our National Trust partners, is a fascinating in the UK – and Glastonbury by Venetia exhibition of sixteenth-century unknown Dearden, the resident photographer of the subjects, accompanied by imagined long-established music festival. Sandy Nairne DIRECTOR 1 1612 FACE TO FACE Summer:Layout 1 20/5/10 14:22 Page 4 MY FAVOURITE PORTRAIT by Bill Paterson Actor RIGHT Max Wall by Maggi Hambling, 1981 ON DISPLAY IN ROOM 32 Photo: © Alan Peebles THEY WERE BOTH such enthusiastic smokers that there must have been many moments when Max Wall vanished into the smog in Maggi Hambling’s studio while she worked on this lovely study in 1981, but there’s such affection in it that you sense they had far more in common than mere cigarettes. This was one of a series she painted when the legendary comedian was at the height of his rekindled fame in what he called ‘The Serious Theatre’ after years in the doldrums. In Scotland we were long used to our comics moving easily from Mother Goose to Molière and from panto to Pinter, but it seemed to come as a surprise to London theatre critics that a great comedian could also be a great actor. It all started with Ubu Roi at the Royal Court in 1966 and then he went on to Osborne, Wesker and Beckett. In fact, in Krapp’s Last adding imaginary speech bubbles above his Tape he seemed to be the very personification battered hat to hear that glorious, elongated of Beckett. When he played Archie Rice in baritone saying something very naughty The Entertainer at Greenwich Theatre in 1974 about Hambling’s cat, Onde, sitting in front he brought his whole biography on stage to of him. It’s perfect to me that the painting merge with the role. It was like alchemy. seems unfinished. He once wrote, ‘I think I will probably die amongst a heap of loose ends’. Now that he’s been gone for twenty years, Bill Paterson is a Glasgow-born actor and writer. Among perhaps fame could again pass Max Wall by. his many film appearances are Miss Potter, Truly Madly Deeply, The Witches, The Killing Fields and Comfort and The stage, both comic or tragic, is the most Joy. TV includes Criminal Justice, Sea of Souls, The Crow ephemeral art, but this portait captures forever Road, Traffik, The Singing Detective, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Smiley’s People and Licking Hitler. Soon to be the hang of his face and his wonderfully appearing in Earthquakes in London at the National expressive smoker’s mouth. I find myself Theatre. His short stories Tales from the Back Green are published by Hodder. 2 1612 FACE TO FACE Summer:Layout 1 20/5/10 14:22 Page 5 IMAGINED LIVES LEFT Unknown man, formerly A new display at Montacute House, one of known as John Bull our National Trust Partners, provides an by an unknown artist, opportunity for the author Sarah Singleton c.1600–20 to explore portraits of unknown sitters MANY OF MY STORIES start as single images. I pondered these notes for some time, It may be a photograph, a painting, a showed copies of the pictures to friends, landscape, a dream – or some apparently undertook a little research and finally wrote rootless picture that emerges from the darker up the imagined biography. All of these have depths of my mind. I have no talent for been published in an elegant booklet and I painting or drawing, so words have always was intrigued to see how the other been my medium for communicating these contributing writers tackled this same project images, and the stories that flow from them. – the differences between them but also the similarities – how each of us had created a I am also fascinated by the Tudor period. It is personality and a life from pictures long a time of extraordinary darkness and brilliant hidden away and only now brought back light: the first recognisably modern society: into the light. a time of cruelty and brutality as well as the creation of some of the greatest art, literature I am seeing portraits in a new light. And and architecture. Consequently, when the I hope the display will inspire others to think National Portrait Gallery invited me to be part again about the sitters in the paintings, to of the Imagined Lives project I jumped at the wonder about their lives, thoughts, passions chance. This creation of a story from a picture and memories, these people regarding us seemed so apposite and I love paintings and from the past, seeming to say ‘This is me. the stories of painters. In my young adult I am here’, and inviting us to look through novel Heretic, set in Elizabethan Wiltshire, one the window of the painting into the world of the main characters is a portrait painter. of another life. I travelled to the National Portrait Gallery’s Sarah Singleton is the author of one novel for adults, conservation department to meet my two The Crow Maiden (Wildside Press USA), and six novels unknown sitters. Previously I’d seen copies of for young adults, all published by Simon and Schuster UK. Century won the Booktrust Teen Award in 2005 the portraits of these two very different men, and her new novel The Island was released in April 2010. but viewing the real paintings added so much Imagined Lives: Mystery Portraits from the National depth, detail and insight. I treated the process Portrait Gallery, c.1540–1640 can be seen at much as I treat any of my image-seeded Montacute House, Somerset, until October 2011. stories – writing first impressions, then asking The display has been curated in partnership with myself series of questions about the paintings. MA students from the University of Bristol. What does his face say to me? What do his A publication of character sketches and imagined clothes, aspect, expression, accoutrements biographies by John Banville, Tracy Chevalier, Julian Fellowes, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Singleton, Joanna suggest about this character, his life and Trollope and Minette Walters accompanies the display. thoughts? Price £5 (Members £4.50) available online at www.npg.org.uk/shop/ 3 1612 FACE TO FACE Summer:Layout 1 20/5/10 14:22 Page 6 THE BP PORTRAIT AWARD REMEMBERED by Ishbel Myerscough Artist, past winner of the BP Portrait Award and one of this year’s judges AS A SCHOOLGIRL, on the Tube every day I would see the posters for the prize, and would dream. Judging this year brought back all those memories and emotions. I imagined each entrant packing and delivering their painting.
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