From the call for papers, 13 November 2009
Tudor and Jacobean Painting: Production, Influences and Patronage, London: Thursday 2nd, Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th December 2010
This conference is part of a collaborative research project between the National Portrait Gallery, the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Sussex, called Making Art in Tudor Britain. More information can be found at: http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/making-art-in-tudor-britain.
Panel sessions:
Session I: Material Practices in the Tudor Period (chaired by Dr. Aviva Burnstock, Courtauld Institute of Art)
Session II: Influences and Transmission: native and foreign artists (chaired by Prof. Maurice Howard, University of Sussex)
Session III: Patronage, Markets and Audiences (chaired by Dr. Tarnya Cooper, National Portrait Gallery)
We seek papers on new research and previously unpublished material in the following areas:
Session I: Tudor artists’ painting processes; panel making; sources of wood; construction and ‘trademarks’; artists’ techniques and effects; artists’ treatises and technical evidence from paintings; underdrawings and types of transfer; artists’ colors and media; Tudor and Jacobean frames; technical evidence on groups of Tudor and Jacobean paintings.
Session II: Holbein’s aftermath; native painting in England; painted ephemera such as stage sets and decorative painting; Elizabethan émigré painters; the role of painter heralds; international exchange and the taste for Renaissance ornament; documentary evidence about émigré artists or the processes of transmission between native and foreign artists; techniques and practices borrowed from the decorative arts; Jacobean émigré painters.
Session III: Court patrons: expectations of representation; artist and patron: the commissioning process; narrative painted interiors in Tudor and Jacobean England; display spaces and presentational devices; narrative and allegorical image making in Britain; copies and versions; markets and audiences in London and the regions; evidence of patron involvement in the production of portraits.
Confirmed speakers:
Susan Foister (Director of Collections, National Gallery); Catharine MacLeod (Curator of 17th Century Portraits, National Portrait Gallery); Robert Tittler (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal); Karen Hearn (Curator of 16th and 17th Century Art, Tate Britain); Ian Tyers (Dendrochronologist); Libby Sheldon (Lecturer in History of Art with Material Studies, University College London); Lucy Wrapson (Hamilton Kerr Institute).
Please send abstract of no more than 250 words by January 25th 2010
For further details please contact: Catherine Daunt, National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE, cdaunt@npg.org.uk, telephone: 020 7312 6629. Delegate booking for the conference will open in May 2010.