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This year’s Wallace Seminar Series on Collections and Collecting:

2022 Wallace Collection Seminars on the History of Collections and Collecting
Online and/or In-Person (depending upon session), The Wallace Collection, London, last Monday of most months

Established in 2006, The Seminars in the History of Collecting series helps fulfil The Wallace Collection’s commitment to the research and study of the history of collections and collecting, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries in Paris and London. Seminars are normally held on the last Monday of each month, excluding August and December. They act as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new research into the history of collecting, and are open to curators, academics, historians, archivists and all those with an interest in the subject. Each seminar is 45–60 minutes long, with time for Q&A.

Book your place via the Wallace Collection website. Bookings will open a few weeks before each seminar. A detailed summary of each forthcoming seminar will be provided around the same time. Please also check the website nearer the time to find out whether the seminar will be held in person at the Wallace Collection, or online via Zoom.

Monday, 17 January
Lelia Packer (Curator of Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German, and Pre-1600 Paintings, The Wallace Collection), The Laughing Cavalier, the ‘Mad Marquis’, and the Revival of Frans Hals

Monday, 28 February
Malika Zekhni (PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge), Between Empires and beyond Labels: Collecting and Presenting Central Asia in British Museums

Monday, 28 March
John D. Ward (Head of Silver and Vertu Department, Sotheby’s, New York), The Lost George J. Gould Collection and the Beginning of Duveen Taste in America

Monday, 25 April
Paweł Gołyźniak (Research Fellow, Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland), Philipp von Stosch (1691–1757) and His Circle: Collecting and Studying of Ancient Engraved Gems, from Antiquarianism to Proto-Archaeology

Monday, 30 May
Simon Kelly (Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum), Collector, Photographer, Art Critic: The Multiple Roles of Paul Casimir-Périer (1812–1897)

Monday, 27 June
John E. Davies (Independent Scholar), Ancient and Modern: The Collecting Habit of John Campbell, First Baron Cawdor (1755–1821)

Monday, 25 July
Felicity Myrone (Lead Curator, Western Prints and Drawings, British Library, London), Prints and Drawings at the British Library: Revealing Hidden Collections

Monday, 26 September
Feng Schöneweiß (PhD Candidate, University of Heidelberg), Provenancing the Dragoon Vases: Porcelain, Architecture, and Monumentality in German Antiquarianism, 1700–1933

Monday, 31 October
Rosie Razzall (Curator of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust, London), Paul Sandby’s Collection of Drawings

Monday, 28 November
Tom Hardwick (Consulting Curator of Egyptology, Houston Museum of Natural Science), Wonderfully Expensive Things: Howard Carter and the Market for Egyptian Art, 1920–1940