N.B. ORIGINALLY ANNOUNCED FOR 13-14 NOVEMBER, NOW TO BE HELD ON 14 NOVEMBER ONLY.
Museum announcement
Generously supported by The Netherlands Embassy
This international one-day conference will complement the exhibition Turmoil and Tranquillity: the Sea through the Eyes of Dutch and Flemish Masters 1550-1700 (20 June 2008-11 January 2009) at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK. The Museum holds one of Europe’s finest collections of Dutch and Flemish marine art from the sixteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. The conference aims to build both on the themes raised by the exhibition and on the expertise of academic and museum based scholars in the field.
Between 1550 and 1700 artists from the Netherlands, both Flemish and Dutch, captured the natural elements, air, light and water, in arresting images. Discovering nature for art in their new and particular way, to these artists and their contemporary audiences the sea proved a highly versatile subject in its own right, not least embracing all states of nature between storms and calms, placing their images between landscape and history painting and expressing the grand moods from turmoil to tranquillity. The genre’s success, its ability to forward ideals of national identity, concepts of nature and religious metaphor was readily acknowledged by other maritime nations, not least Britain. The most prominent example of this appreciation may be Charles II’s invitation to Willem van de Velde, the Elder, and his son, Willem, the Younger, to work as court painters in 1672/3.
Conference programme
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09.30-10.00 |
Registration and Coffee |
Queen’s House, NMM |
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10.00-11.00 |
Tour of the Turmoil and Tranquillity Exhibition |
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Session 1 |
Interpretation of Netherlandish Seascapes |
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11.00-11.30 |
Martina Sitt, |
Seascape – aesthetic, composition and cultural theory |
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11.30-12.00 |
Gary Schwartz, CODART, The Hague |
Description and/or display: is there really anything typically Dutch or Flemish in seascape painting? |
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12.00-12.30 |
Coffee |
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Session 2 |
Artistic Identity and Seascape Painting |
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12.30-13.00 |
Andrew Moore, |
Inhabiting the |
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13.00-13.30 |
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Strangers to the City: Netherlandish artists in seventeenth-century |
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13.30-14.30 |
Lunch |
Orangery of the Queen’s House |
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Session 3 |
Artistic Practice |
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14.30-15.00 |
Friso Lammertse, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |
Willem van de Velde the Elder and the characteristics of penpainting |
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15.00-15.30 |
Joaneath Spicer, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore |
Evoking the foreignness of foreign shores, Willaerts and De Bry |
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15.30-16.00 |
Tea |
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Session 4 |
‘Turmoil and Tranquillity’, Conservation Project |
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16.00-16.30 |
Caroline Hampton and Roger Quarm, NMM |
Abraham Storck’s Ships on the River Y: the conservation of a 17th century overdoor with a special provenance |
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16.30-17.00 |
Discussion & Closing remarks |
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17.00-18.00 |
Reception |
Orangery, Queen’s House |
Fee
Full Fee: £40.00
Student Fee: £20.00
Booking
To book, send an email to the address below or download the conference booking form here and send to:
Mrs Janet Norton
NMM Research Administrator
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich
London SE10 9NF
UK
Email: research@nmm.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0)20 8312 6716
Website: www.nmm.ac.uk/conferences
For more information on the exhibition: www.nmm.ac.uk/turmoil
Related event
Exhibition Turmoil and Tranquillity: the Sea through the Eyes of Dutch and Flemish Masters 1550-1700, Greenwich (National Maritime Museum), 20 June 2008-11 January 2009