Newsletter - Issue 36

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

N EWSLETTER Yale University

May 2013 Issue 36

Research Events at the Paul Mellon Centre

The PMC research seminar of 6 February 2013, in which Professor Caroline Arscott of the Courtauld Institute of Art discussed William Morris’s tapestry The Woodpecker Photograph: Martine La Roche

January 2013 saw the Paul Mellon Centre launching a new series of research seminars and research lunches, respectively taking place on Wednesdays and Fridays, and featuring a mixture of established and emergent scholars. These events are designed to showcase the most interesting and original research on all aspects of the history of British art and architecture. Our next programme of seminars and lunches begins in late April,

and features talks on subjects that include Richard Wilson’s landscape paintings, Kenneth Clark’s art criticism, immigrant photographers, Gilded-Age art collectors, John Sell Cotman in Yorkshire, a Stuart aristocrat, imported cottons, country-house guidebooks, and the very different maritime pictures of de Loutherbourg and Turner.

All are welcome; for more details, please see overleaf.

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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Research Programmes Summer 2013 Research Seminars

Research Lunches

WEDNESDAYS, 5.45–7.45 PM

FRIDAYS, 12.30–2.00 PM

Our spring/summer series of five research seminars will be given by distinguished historians of British art and architecture. These research seminars take the form of hour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and are geared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-trade professionals and research students working on the history of British art.

The spring/summer programme of research lunches is geared to doctoral students and junior scholars working on the history of British art and architecture. These research lunches, which will take place on alternate Fridays, are intended to be informal events in which individual doctoral students and scholars talk for half-an-hour about their projects, and engage in animated discussion with their peers. A sandwich lunch will be provided by the Centre on these occasions. We hope that this series will help foster a sense of community amongst PhD students and junior colleagues working in the field, and bring researchers from a wide range of institutions together in a collegial and friendly atmosphere.

1st May Martin Postle (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Richard Wilson (1714-82): Painting into Print 8th May Shelley Bennett (Huntington Library and Art Collections) The Art of Wealth: the Huntingtons in the Gilded Age 29th May Christiane Hille (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich) ‘Highly endowed in both Body and Mind’: George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court 12th June Chris Stephens (Tate Britain) Keeping modern art British: the patronage of Sir Kenneth Clark 26th June Richard Johns (National Maritime Museum) From the Nore: Turner at the Mouth of the Thames

26th April Sarah Moulden (University of East Anglia) The Draughtsman’s Contract: John Sell Cotman in Yorkshire 10th May Joanna Cobb (University of Glasgow) Bending History: de Loutherbourg’s Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1796, in Bowyer’s Historic Gallery 24th May Jocelyn Anderson (Courtauld Institute of Art) Ornaments and Honours: Country Houses as Cultural Treasures in the 18th Century 7th June Amy Shulman (University of Birmingham) Picture Post and the Photo Essay: Émigré Photographers and Cultural Narratives in Britain, 1938-1945 21st June Anna Kesson (Yale University) Images of Industry: Indian Cotton and British Markets in the 19th Century

William Woollett, after Richard Wilson Niobe, engraving, 1761. The British Museum

Details about the Research Seminars and Research Lunches can also be found on the Centre’s website. In order to help us plan for these events, it is essential that all of those who intend coming to individual research seminars and research lunches email the Centre’s Events Co-ordinator, Ella Fleming, on efleming@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk, at least two days in advance.

To receive regularly updated news on future research events to be held at the Centre, please contact Ella Fleming on efleming@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk and ask to be placed on our email mailing list.

CONFERENCES

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Conference and Workshop A Window on Antiquity The Topham Collection, Eton College Library 17 May 2013 A conference at The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, in collaboration with the University of Buckingham and Eton College Consisting of 37 volumes and more than 3,000 items, the collection of drawings, watercolours and prints after antique sculptures and paintings amassed by Richard Topham (1671-1730) is one of the largest and most significant resources in England for the history of antiquarianism and for the culture and industry of the Grand Tour in Europe. This conference will indicate new avenues of research and is intended as the first step towards an online catalogue of the whole collection.

Conference sessions, chaired by Lucy Gwynn, Ian Jenkins and Helen Whitehouse, will cover Antiquarianism and the Grand Tour Market in the early 18th Century; The Topham Collection and its Archaeological Value; and Richard Topham, His Library, Legacy and Influence.

Francesco Bartoli, Drawing of an antique ceiling, c1725, pen, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, 360 x 357 mm (Eton College Library, Topham Collection Bn6:30)

PROGRAMME Cinzia Maria Sicca (Università di Pisa) The Mind behind the collection: John Talman, antiquary and advisor to Richard Topham and Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine Eloisa Dodero (Dal Pozzo Project Research Assistant, Windsor Castle) Did Topham know of the ‘Museo Cartaceo’? The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo and the Topham Collection of drawings Novella Barbolani (Università di Roma La Sapienza) and Valentina Rubechini (Università di Firenze) Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri, John Talman and Richard Topham: artistic exchanges between Florence and Britain Bruno Gialluca (Independent Scholar) Kent’s drawings after the Antique in the Topham and Holkham Collections Lucia Faedo (Università di Pisa) The Topham Collection and the Roman palaces: British visitors to the Palazzo Barberini Mirco Modolo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre) From philology to the market: the archaeological value of Francesco Bartoli’s drawings in the Topham Collection Delphine Burlot (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art-INHA, Paris) Forgeries of ancient paintings in the Topham Collection Paul Quarrie (Maggs Bros Ltd) Richard Topham and his library David Noy (University of Wales Trinity St David) Richard Topham’s will: a collector plans for the future Adriano Aymonino (University of Buckingham) The Topham Collection as a source for British 18th-century classicism

The full conference fee, including coffee, tea, lunch, and wine reception is £30 (concessions £15).

Register for the conference online on the website: http://97497ab08400.fikket.com/event/a-window-on -antiquity-the-topham-collection-at-eton-college Or send a cheque made payable to Eton College to: Lucy Gwynn, Acting College Librarian, Eton College Library, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 6DB. Tel: 01753 671221 For all further enquiries please contact: A. Aymonino: adrianoaymonino@buckingham.ac.uk L. Gwynn: l.gwynn@etoncollege.org.uk

LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP HELD FEBRUARY 2013 The Paul Mellon Centre and the Royal Academy jointly organised a scholars’ workshop at the Academy’s exhibition Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the making of landscape. This event, which took place on the morning of the 4th February, enabled a wide range of specialists on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British landscape painting to discuss the arguments of the exhibition, focus in detail on the individual works on display, and debate the current state of scholarship in this area. Contributors included Nick Savage, Martin Postle, Annette Wickham, Andrew Wilton and MaryAnne Stevens, each of whom took turns in leading discussion. The workshop generated a great deal of stimulating debate on a subject – British landscape painting between 1750 and 1850 – that is evidently attracting renewed scholarly interest.

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FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT AWARDS

Fellowship and Grant Awards At the March 2013 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded: SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME GRANTS

John Bonehill, University of Glasgow, to prepare his book The Prospective Eye: Estate Portraiture and the Landscape Arts in Britain, c.1640-1820

British School at Rome, grant towards a conference, 19-22 June 2013: Torino Britannica: Political and Cultural Crossroads on the Grand Tour in the Early Modern Age

Rosemary Hill, to prepare her book The Antiquary in the Age of Romanticism

New Insights Conference, grant towards a conference, 18 Jan 2014: New Insights into 16th- and 17th-century British Architecture

David Rundle, University of Oxford, to prepare his book English Humanist Scripts, up to c.1509 ROME FELLOWSHIP Alex Bremner, University of Edinburgh, for research in Rome on G. E. Street in Rome: A Victorian Architect and his Churches

Newcastle University, grant towards a conference, 3-4 May 2013: Victor Pasmore, Richard Hamilton: radical innovation in art, architecture and art education in the North East University of Warwick, grant towards a symposium, Sept 2013: Visualising Colonial Spaces: British Women’s Responses to Empire

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

University of York, grant towards a conference, 19-20 July 2013: Durham–University of East Anglia–Kings College London–York Medieval Postgraduate Conference

Jocelyn Anderson, Courtauld Institute of Art, to prepare her book Palaces, Pictures and Parks: Tourism and Country-House Guidebooks in England, 1744 – 1815

University of York, grant towards a conference, 1 Nov 2013: The London Art World: Mobile, Kinetic, and Ephemeral Networks in the 1960s and 1970s

Samantha Howard, University of York, to prepare her book ‘A New Theatre of Prospects’: Eighteenth-century British Portrait Painters and Artistic Mobility

RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS

Simon Macdonald, University College London, to prepare publications on Sir Robert Strange, dynastic visual politics, and the cross-Channel print trade in the late 18th century

Jordan Bear for research in the United Kingdom on The Proximate Past: History Painting, Evidence, and the Visual Cultures of Display in Britain, 1814-1830

Catriona Murray, University of Edinburgh, to prepare her book Forgotten Stuarts: Representing the Lost Heirs of Seventeenth-century Britain

Sarah Burnage for research in the United Kingdom on ‘A hint of something higher and better’: Sculpture and Methodism 1770-1850

Eric Stryker, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, to prepare his book Transitional Spaces: Figuration after the Blitz

Anuradha Chatterjee for research in the United Kingdom on The Troubled Surface of Architecture: John Ruskin, the Human Body, and External Walls

Elaine Tierney, Victoria and Albert Museum, to prepare her book Strategies for Celebration: Realising the Ideal Celebratory City in London and Paris, 1660-1715 JUNIOR FELLOWSHIPS Alexis Cohen, Princeton University, to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Lines of Utility: Outlines, Architecture, and Design in Britain, c.1800 Kevin Lotery, Harvard University, to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his doctoral thesis An Exhibit/An Aesthetic: The Exhibition Designs of Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson, and the Independent Group, 1951-59 Gabrielle Moser, York University, Toronto, to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Picturing Imperial Citizens: the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee’s slide lecture series, 1902-45 Emily Torbert, University of Delaware, to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Going Places: The Material and Imaginary Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840

Carly Collier for research in the United Kingdom on Expanding the Known oeuvre of William Dyce: two new discoveries Meredith Gamer for research in the United Kingdom on Criminal and Martyr: Art and religion in Britain’s early modern eighteenth century Freya Gowrley for research in the United Kingdom on Trivial Pursuits: Space, Sphere & Self in Women’s Cultural Engagement, 1760-1820 Nicholas Grindle for research in the United Kingdom on George Morland: In the Margins Catherine Hundley for research in the United Kingdom on The Round Church Movement in Twelfth-Century England: Crusaders, Pilgrims, and the Holy Sepulchre Robert Kronenburg for research in the United Kingdom on The Architectural History of British Popular Music Performance Space: 1650-1950 Henry Miller for research in the United Kingdom on The Slade Film Department, 1956-71

FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT AWARDS

Nic Peeters for research in the United Kingdom on The Pioneer Art Photography of Eveleen Tennant Myers (1856-1937) Antje Pfannkuchen for research in the United Kingdom on Tom Wedgwood’s photographic experiments in their Romantic context Susan Russell for research in the United Kingdom on Robert Bragge (1770-1777), Gentleman Dealer Thomas Russo for research in the United Kingdom on A Newly Discovered Medieval Font Group: Manufacture, Distribution and Iconography of the ‘Coleby’ Font Type in Lincolnshire Fiona Smyth for research in the United Kingdom and the United States on From Concept to Application: Hope Bagenal and ‘Planning for Good Acoustics’ Allison Stagg for research in the United Kingdom on The British Caricature Tradition: The London Market in 1797-1807 and the influence on early American satirical prints Emily Talbot for research in the United Kingdom on Combination Printing in Photography: Viewing Photographs

by Oscar Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson Robert Tittler for research in the United Kingdom on A Directory of painters working in Britain, 1500-1640

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GRANTS PROGRAMME AUTUMN 2013 The following categories of grant will be awarded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art at the next meeting in Autumn 2013: Curatorial Research Grants Publication Grants (Author) Publication Grants (Publisher) Educational Programme Grants Research Support Grants.

Applications are also welcome at this time for the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Support Grant which is awarded each Autumn. Administered by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on behalf of the The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust, this annual award of £2,000 is offered to a graduate student or researcher in the field of 20th-century British painting.

The closing date for receipt of applications for all these awards is 15 September 2013.

Full details and application forms are on our website at: http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/179/ and enquiries may be made by email to: grants@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk

HAM HOUSE VISIT BY ADVISORY COUNCIL Following the March 2013 Advisory Council meeting, ten Council members and staff from the Paul Mellon Centre travelled to Ham House, the grand 17th-century property on the River Thames, as guests of the National Trust. The National Trust were the recipients of a Curatorial Research Grant in 2009 which supported their research curator Helen Wyld for three years to research and catalogue the National Trust tapestry collection.

Helen, who is nearing the end of the three-year project, gave a fascinating and scholarly presentation which showed the scope and depth of her research. Many of the tapestries she has catalogued are now on the National Trust’s online catalogue http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/ Staff at Ham House also gave the group a tour of the house, with some privileged access behind cordons and into areas not normally on the visitor route. The National Trust tapestry cataloguing project has been exemplary and one which the Paul Mellon Centre has been pleased to support.

Ham House: Four Hundred Years of Collecting and Patronage by Christopher Rowell. Published by Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre For Studies in British Art and the National Trust.

ISBN 978-0-300-18540-9 £75.00

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REGIONAL MUSEUMS

Visits to Regional Museums

Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire

In November 2012 the Paul Mellon Centre launched a new initiative aimed at gaining greater insights into the collections, displays and exhibitions of British art in British regional museums. Since November I have been making a series of visits to regional museums (on average two a month), listening to curators talk about the challenges that face them and informing them, in turn, about the role of the Paul Mellon Centre in providing support and opportunities for sharing information and networking. To date I have focussed on smaller regional museums.

I began in November with visits to Leamington Spa Art Gallery, Compton Verney and Turner Contemporary, Margate. In December I visited Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, and earlier this year Derby Museum and Gallery, Petworth House, Southampton City Art Gallery, The Holburne Museum and Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, and the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham. Despite the challenges of funding and curatorial resources faced by these institutions, I was impressed greatly by the range of displays, the quality of collections, and above all by the depth of curatorial knowledge and commitment.

Leamington, curated by Chloe Johnson, exhibits a broad range of British art from traditional local painters such as Stephen Bone and Emily Ledbrook to contemporary artists, Marc Quinn and Edmund de Waal.

At Derby, the magnificent collection of oil paintings by native painter, Joseph Wright, has recent been reinstalled by curator Lucy Bamford. Compton Verney, under the direction of Steven Parissien, will host this summer a

revelatory exhibition of oil sketches by Constable and Turner from Tate’s collection, which will travel later this year to Turner Contemporary, Margate. At Christchurch Mansion, Emma Roodhouse is showcasing a new landscape gallery, featuring two iconic works by Constable of his parents’ flower and vegetable gardens, while at Petworth House, curator Andy Loukes has just completed a phenomenally successful winter exhibition, ‘Turner’s Sussex’. The Spencer Gallery in Cookham, which relies entirely on voluntary staff, notably archivist Ann Danks, continues to punch above its weight, with a new exhibition, ‘Perspectives on Love’, which opened to the public on 28 March. Southampton Art Gallery, curated by the passionate and hugely knowledgeable Tim Craven, houses the best collection of modern and contemporary British art outside the Tate. In Bath the newly revitalised Holburne Museum hosts an exhibition of Shakespearean portraits, while the Victoria Art Gallery has recently installed its first floor galleries with major works by historic and modern British artists.

In March 2013, we held a small workshop at the Paul Mellon Centre involving museum professionals from Compton Verney, the Laing Art Gallery, the RussellCotes Museum, Turner Contemporary, Gainsborough’s House, and the Holburne Museum, Bath. In this workshop, Mark Hallett and I discussed our new initiative and considered the next steps. Foremost among the outcomes was the perceived need for regional museums to share information and develop networks for displays and exhibitions. We look forward to exploring these possibilities in the months and years to come.

Martin Postle

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Warwickshire

COLLECTIONS THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE

Collections News

A selection of materials on George Stubbs from the Paul Mellon Centre’s Library, Archive and Photographic Archive Collections

Developing and expanding the Library, Archive and Photographic Archive Collections is an important part of the Centre’s continuing improvements to the research facilities provided to readers. Alongside the everyday acquisition of new titles for the Library, new material is also acquired through large-scale donations or bequests from private owners or institutions. All new material is assessed and selected according to the Centre’s collection development policies, filling the gaps in our holdings while adding depth and richness to the collections.

The Centre is delighted to announce the acquisition of the following collections: DONATION OF BOOKS BY PETER AND RENATE NAHUM Peter and Renate Nahum, proprietors of The Leicester Galleries, have very generously donated to the Centre their large collection of books and exhibition catalogues on British art. The collection is particularly strong on the artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Stock selection has been completed. Conservation and cataloguing of the materials to be added to the Library Collection is about to start so records will begin to be added to the Library catalogue soon. The Centre is extremely grateful to Peter and Renate Nahum for their generous donation.

JUDY EGERTON ARCHIVE The family of the art historian and museum curator, Judy Egerton (1928-2012), have very generously donated her archive to the Centre. Judy Egerton was a leading scholar of Eighteenth-century British art, particularly the works of the artist George Stubbs (1724-1806). Her career included positions at both the Tate Gallery (1974-1988) and the National Gallery (1988-1998). She was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre (1997-2007).

Her archive is extensive, currently comprising 30 boxes of material and including research notes, correspondence and images relating to her publications on George Stubbs

Judy Egerton working in Dover Street, 1972

(1984), Wright of Derby (1990); Making and Meaning: Turner: The Fighting Temeraire (1995), Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode (1997) and George Stubbs, Painter (2007). It also includes research material pertaining to the exhibitions she curated at Tate on Stubbs (in 1976 and 1984-5) and Wright of Derby (in 1990), as well as her revision of the National Gallery’s British School catalogue and her work for the New Dictionary of National Biography, including in particular the entry for the artist, Thomas Jones (1742-1803). There is also research material related to an unpublished project on images of Candaules & Gyges. This archive has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation.

The acquisition of this collection will help the Centre become a key focal point for research on George Stubbs.

Alongside the extensive material in the Judy Egerton Archive, the Ellis Waterhouse Archive (also held at the Centre) contains annotated photographs, research notes and published material on works by the artist. In addition, the library holds approximately 50 books and exhibition catalogues on Stubbs together with 20 individually catalogued journal articles. Publications date from the 1870s to the present day and include auction catalogues, catalogues of collections, and European exhibition catalogues. Likewise, the photographic archive holdings include some 16 boxes of mounted images of Stubbs’ works (7 in the Paul Mellon Centre’s photographic archive and 9 in Tate photographic archive). Files are subdivided by subject matter (e.g. Single horses, equestrian portraits, A-Z) for ease of searching.

All of this material (and all the Collections at the Centre) are available to researchers, by appointment, in the Public Study Room. To make an appointment please email: collections@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk.

Further information about opening hours can be found on the website: http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/169/

ya l e c e n t e r f o r b r i t i s h a r t

Exhibitions The following have been organized by the Yale Center for British Art.

Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 2 8 F EBRUARY—2 JUN E

Art in Focus: St. Ives Abstraction ST U D ENT GUID E EXH I B I TI ON 1 2 APRIL—29 SEPTEMB E R

P U B L I C AT I O N S

Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Edited by Angus Trumble and Andrea Wolk Rager, with contributions by A. Cassandra Albinson, Tim Barringer, Pamela Fletcher, Imogen Hart, Elizabeth C. Mansfield, Alexander Nemerov, Andrea Wolk Rager, and Angus Trumble, this companion book to the exhibition was published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press (February 2013).

For complete details of the following exhibitions and programs, please visit britishart.yale.edu, phone +1 203 432 2800, or email ycba.info@yale.edu.

R E F U R B I S H M E N T P R OJ E C T

The first phase of a refurbishment project at the Center will take place this summer and fall. There will be limited availability of some services and partial closures. In addition, we will not be able to host visiting scholars during this period. The public display of the permanent collection on the fourth floor will remain open, as will the Reference Library.

The following resources may be of use: The Center’s entire art collections are available for searching on our website. Orbis, the online catalogue of the Yale University Libraries, provides access to material from our Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, as well as the Reference Library and other Yale departments.

The Yale Finding Aid Database offers detailed descriptions of the Rare Books’ archival collections, along with other archives at Yale.

Visit britishart.yale.edu/news for details.

John Singer Sargent, Sir Frank Swettenham (detail), 1904, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London

LECTURES

I N T E R N AT I O N A L SY M P O S I U M

Inside G.F. Watts’s “Hope”: The Making of a Version

The End of An Era? New Perspectives on Edwardian Art

W E D N E SDAY, 1 M AY, 5 : 30 P M

Barbara Bryant, independent scholar and consultant curator

SAT URDAY, 11 M AY, 9 : 30 A M– 5 P M

K EY N OT E L EC T URE

The publication James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive, by Anthony Vidler (2010), has won the 2013 Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award, presented by the Society of Architectural Historians.

The Art of Wealth: The Huntingtons in the Gilded Age TH U R SDAY, 16 M AY, 5 : 30 P M

Shelley M. Bennett, former Curator of European Art and Senior Research Scholar, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

The Rhythm of Time in the Arts of Edwardian Britain F RI DAY, 10 M AY, 5 : 30 P M

Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art The symposium is free, but advance registration is recommended at: britishart.yale.edu/research.

A book signing will follow.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Scholars Anna Rhodes Assistant Collections Officer Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

Victoria and Albert Museum Curatorial Exchange Lucy Bamford Keeper of Art Derby Museums and Art Gallery

Elizabeth James Senior Librarian National Art Library Collections, V&A