Allan Ramsay: a reputation re-defined Symposium 5-6 December 2013 University of Glasgow, The Hunterian Art Gallery, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QQ N.B. the events take place in The Hunterian Art Gallery and The Hunterian Museum. Thursday 5 December 2013 Hunterian Art Gallery 17.45 Evening Lecture followed by a reception Professor Duncan Macmillan Allan Ramsay and Portraiture in Enlightenment Scotland Friday 6 December 2013 Lecture Theatre, Hunterian Art Gallery 9.30 Registration/tea and coffee 10.00 Opening Speaker Professor Murray Pittock ‘Jacobite Artists’ connections in Scotland and Italy Morning Session Professor Nigel Leask (Session Chair) Panel with Dr Rhonda Brown and Melanie Buntin 10.40 Professor Chris Whatley (University of Dundee) A Hotbed for Genius: Allan Ramsay’s Scotland 11.10 Dr Elizabeth Eger (King’s College London) ‘A Harmony of Minds’: Allan Ramsay, Elizabeth Montagu and the Scottish Enlightenment 11.40 Dr Cristina Martinez (University of Carleton) Allan Ramsay: ‘A Dilettante in Law and Politics’ 12.10 Panel discussion Lunch 12.40–14.00 Hunterian Museum Afternoon Session Dr John Bonehill (Session Chair) Panel with Anne Dulau, Rica Jones 14.15 Rica Jones (conservator and historian of paintings) The significance of Ramsay’s technique in context and perspective 14.45 Dr Guillaume Farroult (Musée du Louvre) Ramsay’s response to mid eighteenth-century French portraiture and aesthetic values 15.30 Tea/coffee 16.00 Panel discussion Performance 17.00 The Hunterian Art Gallery, exhibition space Kirsten McCue ‘Allan Ramsay’s Scots Songs’: the first Musick book Registration fee: £40 Concession: £20 Booking requested by the 1st of December Fees cover exhibition admission; the evening reception on the 5th of December; tea/coffee, lunch and performance with a glass of wine on the 6th of December. Payment to be made by cheque (to 'University of Glasgow') or by cash on the day. For booking and further information please contact Mila Athayde ([email protected]); alternatively please visit The Hunterian website at http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/events/ or contact the main reception on 00 44 (0)141 330 5431 .