Conference | European Portrait Miniatures

Posted in books, catalogues, conferences (to attend), exhibitions by Editor on September 20, 2016

European Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions, and Collections
The Tansey Miniatures Foundation, Bomann-Museum, Celle, 11–13 November 2016

Layout 1 The conference is being held on the occasion of the opening of the sixth exhibition of the Tansey Miniatures Foundation and the publication of the accompanying catalogue Miniatures from the Baroque Period in the Tansey Collection.

Both conference venues are within walking distance (20 minutes) from the railway station. Trains from Hannover take approximately 25 to 45 minutes (Deutsche Bahn, Metronom, and S-Bahn).

For registration, please contact Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten, Head of the Residence Museum at Celle Castle, juliane.schmieglitz-otten@tansey-miniatures.com. For more information, please contact Bernd Pappe, Art Historian and Restorer, bernd.pappe@tansey-miniatures.com. Conception IT Coordination by Birgitt Schmedding, Photo Designer, birgitt.schmedding@tansey-miniatures.com.

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F R I D A Y , 1 1 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 6

15:00 Registration

16:30 Welcome and opening of the exhibition Miniatures from the Baroque Period in the Tansey Collection

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9:00 Objects, Agencies, and Social Practices
• Ulrike Kern (Frankfurt), The Limner’s Language: Words and Concepts Related to Miniature Painting in England
• Miranda L. Elston (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), Hilliard’s Miniatures: Enacted Desire within the Elizabethan Court
• Eloise Owens (New York), The Hand behind the Likeness: Women’s Practice as Portrait Miniaturists in Eighteenth-Century England
• Christoph Großpietsch (Salzburg), Portrait Miniatures of Mozart: Problems of Authenticity
• Violaine Joëssel (Geneva), A Quest for Legitimacy: The Practice of Miniature Painting in Colonial America
• Dimitri Gorchko (Moscow), ‘… et que tout ait un nom nouveau’: Portrait Miniatures of Napoleon’s Marshals, Generals, and Colonels: Analysis and Identification

13:00 Lunch

14:15 Politics and Representation
• Delia Schffer (Kassel), Power through Relations: Duke Louis of Württemberg‘s Family Ties in a Series of Miniature Portraits
• Sarah Grandin (Paris), Density in the ‘Boîte à Portrait’ under Louis XIV
• Stefanie Linsboth (Vienna), From Large-Scale Paintings to Precious Miniatures: Maria Theresa’s Portrait Miniatures
• Karin Schrader (Bad Nauheim), ‘Taking the Veil’: Miniatures of Royal Widows from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

16:30 Coffee

17:00 Special Techniques and Materials
• Tatjana Wischniowski (Dresden), Oil-Based Paint under a Layer of Water: Arnaud Vincent de Montpetit’s ‘Eludoric Painting’, a Rare Miniature Painting Technique
• Emma Rutherford, Alan Derbyshire, and Victoria Button (London), The Drawings of John Smart (1742–1811): Function, Purpose, and Line

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9:00 Miniature Collections
• Lucy Davis (London), Famous Women in the Miniatures at The Wallace Collection
• Catherine Hess (San Marino, California), Up Close and Personal: Portrait Miniatures at The Huntington Art Collections
• Isabel M. Rodríguez-Marco (Madrid), The Collection of Portrait Miniatures and Small Portraits in the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
• Paul Caffrey (Dublin), European Enamels from the National Gallery of Ireland Collection
• Wladyslaw Maximowicz (Bergamo), The Portrait Miniature in Russian Provincial Collections
• Reetta Kuojärvi-Närhi (Helsinki), Small Treasures in Finland: Paul Sinebrycho as a Miniature Collector

13:00 Lunch

14:15 Miniature Painters
• Halgard Kuhn (Hannover), Peter Boy (c. 1650–1727): Medallions and Miniatures by the Frankfurt Baroque Goldsmith and Enamel Painter as Integrating Parts in Golden Jewellery
• Karen Hearn (London), The ‘Small Oil Colour Pictures’ of Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661)
• Marco Pupillo (Rome), Francesco Antonio Teriggi, a Miniaturist in the Service of Joseph Bonaparte
• Roger and Carmela Arturi Phillips (Ringwood), The True and Flawed Genius of John Engleheart
• Stephen Lloyd (Liverpool), Copying Portraits in Miniature in Regency England: The Work of William Derby (1786–1847) for the 13th Earl of Derby at Knowsley Hall

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The exhibition catalogue is distributed in North America and Japan by The University of Chicago Press (with information on the other five volumes published thus far from The Tansey Foundation). . .

Bernd Pappe and Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten, eds., Miniatures from the Baroque Period in the Tansey Collection / Miniaturen des Barock aus der Sammlung Tansey (Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2016), 400 pages, ISBN: 978-3777426389, $64.

The Tansey miniatures, now held by the Bomann Museum in Celle, represent one of the most significant collections of European miniature paintings. This volume is the sixth in a series exploring the collection in key periods. Each volume presents new photographic reproductions of the miniatures at actual size and with close-up photographs that show important details. This volume covers portrait miniatures created throughout the Baroque period of the seventeenth-century, with more than one hundred representative works. Essays by specialists in the field offer insights into the artworks, their patrons, and the period. The resulting book is as informative as it is beautiful, a stunning testament to a bygone age and a once-popular form.

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