Symposium: ‘Collecting Murillo in Britain and Ireland,’ The Wallace Collection, London, 14 May 2018
‘Oh wonderful Spain. Think of this romantic land covered in Moorish ruins and full of Murillos’
Benjamin Disraeli’s 1830 letter attests to the prominence of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in the minds British travellers and collectors. In celebration of the 400thanniversary of Murillo’s birth, the Wallace Collection, in collaboration with the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, will be exploring this further by hosting an international one-day symposium on 14th May 2018 entitled ‘Collecting Murillo in Britain and Ireland’.
Speakers include Thierry Morel, Veronique Gerard Powell, Xanthe Brooke, Hugh Brigstocke, Isabelle Kent, Xavier Bray, Claudia Hopkins, Thomas Bean, Hilary Macarney and Philip McEvansoneya. We are delighted to have this group of acclaimed scholars coming together to discuss new research surrounding the collecting of Murillo in Britain and Ireland.The seminars delivered will form the basis of a new volume on the subject to be published by CEEH.
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Programme
09:30 – Registration
09:50 – Welcome
Session 1) Early Displays of Works by Murillo in Britain
10:00 – Sir Robert Walpole’s Spanish Pictures. Thierry Morel (Director and Curator at Large, Hermitage Museum Foundation)
10:30 – From Lord Godolphin to John Blackwood and Lawrence Dundas: the first British purchasers of Murillo. Véronique Gerard Powell (Honorary Senior Lecturer, Sorbonne University)
11:00 – tea and coffee break
Session 2) British Collectors in Seville and Madrid
11:30 – Collecting Murillo in Seville: the case of Julian Benjamin Williams (d.1866) and Frank Hall Standish (1799-1840). Xanthe Brooke (Curator of Continental European Art, Walker Art Gallery)
12:00 – William Eden: the discovery of Murillo with his friends in Spain. Travel and collecting. Hugh Brigstocke (independent scholar)
12:30 – The curious case of General Meade (1775 – 1849): his collection in Madrid and its dissemination. Isabelle Kent (Enriqueta Harris Frankfort Curatorial Assistant, The Wallace Collection)
13:00 – Break for lunch (not included)
14:00 – William Buchanan and James Irvine: In-situ talk in the Great Gallery. Xavier Bray (Director, The Wallace Collection) and Isabelle Kent
Session 3) Artists and Scholars travellers to Spain
14:30 – ‘All softness’ – Murillo through British artists’ eyes. Claudia Hopkins (Lecturer, University of Edinburgh)
15:00 – Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and Richard Ford. Thomas Bean (private researcher)
15:30 – Accessing Murillo: Stirling Maxwell’s contribution to scholarship, collecting and taste in Britain. Hilary Macartney (Lecturer, University of Glasgow)
Session 4) Other Major Collectors
16:00 – Collecting and displaying Murillo in Ireland. Philip McEvansoneya (Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin)
16:30 – Close
Conference: Collecting Spain: Spanish decorative arts in Britain and Spain, V&A, London, 8th–9th June 2018
Spanish art has been collected in the UK since the 17th century. This conference will explore collecting practices, attitudes to and perceptions of Spanish decorative arts in Britain and Spain, and how these attitudes influenced the development of museums and museum collections in both countries. The case studies will be drawn from the V&A and Spanish museum collections.
The conference is organized in joint sessions dealing with the same subject from Spanish and then British perspectives. The first day considers the collecting of particular media, while the second day focuses on the dissemination, display and conservation of these collections. The conference will include poster session during the coffee breaks.
Opening remarks on the history of collecting Spanish Decorative Arts by medium: Collecting, Display & Dissemination: the changing face of the decorative arts collection at South Kensington (1852-1873), Dr Susanna Avery-Quash (Senior Research Curator, History of Collecting, National Gallery)
- Ceramics: Lusterware:
M. Rosser-Owen (Asian Department, V&A): Collecting Spanish lustreware by the Victoria and Albert MuseumJaume Coll (Museo Nacional de Cerámica, Valencia): A survey and history of collecting Spanish Decorative Arts: Lusterware - Textiles:
Ana Cabrera (Marie S.-Curie Fellow, V&A): Following the thread: collecting Spanish textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum Spanish case
Silvia Carbonell (Centro de Documentación Museo Textil, Tarrasa): Textile collecting in Catalonia - Silver:
Kirstin Kennedy (Metalwork Department, V&A): The Scholar, the scoundrel and the skater: How the V&A collections of Hispanic silver were formed
Jesús Rivas (Universidad de Murcia): Collecting Spanish silverwork - Furniture:
Nick Humphrey (Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department, V&A): Collecting Spanish Furniture, Woodwork and Leatherwork, 1850-1950
Sofía Rodríguez (Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid): Collecting Spanish Furniture in Madrid (1880-1920) - Sculpture and Plaster Cast:
Xavier Bray (Wallace Collection): A Vogue for St FrancisHolly Trusted (Sculpture Department, V&A): Spanish Monuments Displayed at South Kensington: Raising the profile of Spanish Art through Plaster CastsMaria Bolaños (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid): Electrical treasuries: the Decorative Arts collection from Antiquity at the Museo Nacional de Reproducciones (1881-1915)
- Fashion:
Oriole Cullen (Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Department, V&A): Fashion and Spain at the Victoria and Albert MuseumHelena López del Hierro (Museo del Traje, Madrid): From Dress to Fashion:the collection of The Museo del Traje
- Displaying, interpreting and conserving collections of Spanish decorative arts:
Isabel Rodríguez (Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid): Displaying Decorative Arts in Britain and Spain. A Comparative AnalysisCorinna Gardner and
Johanna Agerman Ross (Design, Architecture and Digital, V&A): 20th century Galleries at the V&A Lesley Miller (Furniture, Textiles and Fashion, V&A): Spain in the Europe 1600-1815 GalleriesVictor Borges (Conservation Department, V&A): The Conservation of the Cast Courts. New discoveries on the Spanish Casts
- Closing speaker: Dr Edward Payne (Head Curator: Spanish Art, Auckland Castle): Collecting in Action: Building a Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland
- Closing remarks: Joanna Norman, Head of the Victoria and Albert Research Institute (VARI)
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Call for Posters: Collecting Spain: Spanish Decorative Arts in Britain and Spain, V&A, London, 8th and 9th June 2018
Call for posters
On 8th and 9th June 2018, the Victoria and Albert Museum is hosting a conference with the aim of studying the collecting history and practices in the Spanish Decorative Arts in Britain and in Spain, from 1850 to the mid-20th century. Research on collectors, art dealers, type of collections, and the development of the Decorative Arts museums in Britain and Spain is the focus of discussion at the conference. The speakers are scholars from English and Spanish museum and universities who will present papers on the collecting of different material from Iberia, such as ceramics, furniture, metalwork, sculpture and casts textiles and fashion, as well as on displaying, conserving and interpreting these artworks.
Call for Posters
This call for poster presentations invites the participation of students studying for Masters or PhD and young researchers who would like to present a poster dealing with one of the Conference topics.
The proposal should be provided in the form of an abstract of 400 words, accompanied by a short CV (an A4 page). It should outline the aims and objectives of the research, the methods, and findings to date. All posters will be peer-reviewed. The poster format will A0
Contact
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. All correspondence, including your proposals for papers or posters and your CV as well as further questions, should be addressed to a.cabrera@vam.ac.uk and tao.chang@vam.ac.uk
New Publication: Almudena Pérez de Tudela Gabaldón, ‘Los inventarios de Doña Juana de Austria, Princesa de Portugal (1535–1573)
Almudena Pérez de Tudela Gabaldón
Los inventarios de Doña Juana de Austria, Princesa de Portugal (1535–1573)
2018
Universidad de Jaén
ISBN: 978-84-9159-094-1
35
La princesa Juana de Austria fue una de las coleccionistas y mecenas más importantes en la España de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI. Sin embargo, su figura ha quedado eclipsada por la de su hermano, el rey Felipe II. Al trasladarse la corte a Madrid ocupará unas habitaciones en el palacio al lado de las de las reinas e infantas, para las que constituirá un referente. Durante muchas celebraciones religiosas residiría en sus cuartos del monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, fundado por ella. Para su estudio resulta fundamental el inventario de bienes que se redacta cuando fallece en 1573 que se publica por primera vez de manera sistemática. También se contextualiza con otros destacados documentos como la herencia materna, su ajuar de 1553 o su almoneda parcial, entre otros. Este corpus documental constituye el punto de partida para reconstruir su prácticamente perdida colección.
Overshadowed by her brother, King Philip II, Princess Joanna of Austria was one of the most important private collector and patrons in Spain in the second half of the sixteenth century. When the court moved to Madrird, she occupied rooms in the palace alongside the Queen and the Infantas and came to be an important influence on them. She founded the convent of the Descalzas Reales and would stay there in her rooms for many of the feast days and festivals. This inventory, carried out when she died in 1573, is essential to the study of the convent of the Descalzas Reales and is published here systematically for the first time. In addition, it contextualises her inventory with other notable documents such as, for example, her inheritance from her mother, her dowry of 1553 or the partial auction of her estate. This body of documentary information is the starting point for reconstructing her almost completely lost collection.
Conference: Wider Worlds: Art and Audience under the Spanish Crown, The Frick Collection, New York, 5 April 2018
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Conference: Artistic Trade between Spain and its Viceroyalties from 1500 to 1800, King’s College, Cambridge, 22 June 2018
This is the first conference in the United Kingdom devoted to artistic trade between Spain and its viceroyalties. Referring to Cambridge’s Spanish and colonial art collections and with the indispensable support of the Nigel Glendinning studentship for Spanish studies, this conference brings together scholars specialized in the art from the Spanish Viceroyalties. The speakers will trace the artworks from their production, their movement with the help of agents and their collection and display at their destination. Such approach avoids setting an epicentre and periphery but establishes an equalitarian platform on the movement of art within the Spanish Empire.
8:30- 9:15 – Registration.
Introductory remarks:
9:15- 9:30 – Akemi Herráez Vossbrink (University of Cambridge)
Keynote speaker:
9:30- 10:00 – Luisa Elena Alcalá (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Passageways of Art in the Atlantic world: Artists, Patrons and Agents.
- Workshops and Artists Producing Art for the Spanish Viceroyalties and Transitory Spaces.
Chaired by Akemi Herráez Vossbrink (University of Cambridge)
10:00- 10:30 – Holly Trusted (Victoria and Albert Museum), Shipwrecked Ivories: The Confluence of East and West.
10:30- 11:00 – Piers Baker Bates (The Open University), Traveling between the Viceroyalties: Artistic Translation in the Sixteenth-century Hispanic World.
11:00- 11:30 – Escardiel González Estevez (Universidad de Sevilla), Alonso Vázquez between Seville, Mexico and Manila (1603-1608): The Paradigm of a “Global Artist”.
11:30- 12:00- Questions.
12:00-13:30- Lunch break.
- The Role of Agents Commercializing Artworks between Spain and its Viceroyalties
Chaired by José Ramón Marcaida López (University of Saint Andrews)
13:30-14:00 – Sandra Van Ginhoven (Getty Research Institute, Research Associate), Spanish Transatlantic Agents and the Flemish Guilliam Forchondt in the Overseas Paintings Trade.
14:00- 14:30 – Corinna Gramatke (Technical University of Munich Chair of Conservation-Restoration), “The Portable Europe”: European Artworks for the Jesuit Province of Paraguay (1608-1767).
14:30-15:00 – Eduardo Lamas Delgado (Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels), Madrilenian Painters and America: Artistic Production for Overseas Trade Networks and their possible Agents.
15:00- 16:00- Questions followed by a coffee break.
- Collecting and Display in Private, Civil and Religious Spaces in the Spanish Viceroyalties.
Chaired by Jean Michel Massing (University of Cambridge)
16:00-16:30 – Kathryn Santner (Leverhulme Trust Fellow, ILAS, London), Conventual Art Collections and Artistic Exchange in the Colonial Viceroyalties.
16:30-17:00 – Isabel Oleas Mogollón (University of Delaware), The Divine and the Self: Uses and Meanings of Mirrors in Quito’s Jesuit Church.
17:00-17:30 – Veronika Winkler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München), Witnessing the Saint’s Life: Patrons and Hagiographical Painting Cycles of Viceregal Peru.
17:30- 18:00- Final questions and closing remarks.
For further information please contact Akemi Herráez Vossbrink at alh64@cam.ac.uk.
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ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Insitute of Art, 15 May 2018
13:00 – 14:30 Opportunity to visit the drawings by Murillo and other Spanish masters in the Courtauld Prints and Drawings Study Room
14:30 Welcome
14:35 – 15:05 Manuela Mena Marqués, Senior Curator of 18th Century Painting and Goya, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid: “Murillo the Draughtsman”
15:05 – 15:35 Xanthe Brooke, Curator of Continental European Art, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: “Murillo’s Virgin and Child in Glory: The Afterlife of a Great Baroque Altarpiece”
15:35 – 16:05 Benito Navarrete Prieto, Professor, History of Art at the University of Alcala and Director of the Department of History and Philosophy: “Empathy and Prestige: The Real Reasons for Collecting Murillo’s Work in the Seville of his Patrons”
16:05 – 16:35 Tea
16:35 – 17:05 Laura Alba Carcelén, Conservation Scientist, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid’: “At Murillo’s Workshop: Pictorial Materials and Procedures”
17:05 – 17:35 Mairi Macdonald, Birkbeck College, University of London: “Murillo and Depictions of Poverty”
17:35 – 17:55 Discussion and close
18:00 – 19:00 Drinks and tapas
19:30 Invitation to attend a free concert of Spanish Renaissance and Baroque music organised by the Instituto Cervantes in Kings College Chapel (next door to the Courtauld). Please visit the Instituto’s website for information on how to book:
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General public £16
Students £11
Job: Curatorial Fellow in Spanish Paintings, The National Gallery, London
1647-51, The National Gallery, London
Department: Curatorial
Salary: £26,126 – £32,734
Type: Fixed Term Full-Time
Closing date: 25 April 2018
Interview date:16th May 2018
Job ref:1608
This is a new curatorial position at The National Gallery generously supported by Centro de Estudios Europa
Hispanica (CEEH).
This post is a 22 month traineeship for a candidate with a scholarly background in European paintings and a special interest in Spanish paintings, who wishes to pursue a museum career. The Curatorial Fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in a full range of curatorial activities, including special projects, with a particular focus on Spanish paintings from 1450 to post-1800.
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Curator-led Visit for ARTES Members: MURILLO: THE SELF-PORTRAITS at the National Gallery, London, 15 May 2018
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