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Two-day Conference 17-18 November 2006

CENTRE FOR EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES and the HISTORY OF ART DEPARTMENT
in association with the NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Sponsored by the PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART

Making Faces: New Approaches to Georgian Portriature

 

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Pulteney, First Earl of Bath (1761), National Portrait Gallery, London

Venues:
The King's Manor
Exhibition Square
University of York
YORK YO1 7EP


Beningbrough Hall
Beningbrough
York
North Yorkshire YO30 1DD

This conference marks the opening in June of this year, of the radically revised display of the National Portrait Gallery's Georgian portraits at Beningbrough Hall. It will include an extended trip to Beningbrough itself, thus allowing scholars and students to discuss the works on display at the house in a wider critical and historiographical context. The conference is further intended to promote discussion of the museological issues that arise from the display and interpretation of portraits in a venue - the provincial country house - that is very different from the more conventional, metropolitan settings where such works are often experienced. Papers will reflect upon the art-historical legacy of the early 1990s, when a number of important books were published on the subject of Georgian portraiture, and explore the approaches to the subject that have emerged over the decade or so since those publications appeared. Making Faces is also intended to allow established scholars to showcase innovative and original work in the area, and to provide a stimulating and generous forum for new voices in this still-burgeoning field of scholarship. The speakers are: Peter de Bolla, Mark Hallett, Sarah Burnage, Sarah Monks, Kate Retford, Shearer West and Victoria Whitfield. There will also be a roundtable discussion with Lucy Peltz, David Solkin, Martin Myrone and Mark Hallett.