New Publication | Close Encounters: The Low Countries and Britain
As noted at Art History News, the following essays are all available for free through the RKD’s website:
Karen Hearn, Angela Jager, Sander Karst, Rieke van Leeuwen, David Taylor, and Joanna Woodall, eds., Close Encounters: Cross-Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and Britain, 1600–1830 (The Hague, Gerson Digital X, 2024, produced by Rieke van Leeuwen). Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the RKD, The Hague, 22–23 September 2022
Samuel van Hoogstraten, Perspective Portrait of a Young Man Reading in the Courtyard of an Imaginary Building, 1662–67 (Dordrecht: Dordrechts Museum, inv./cat.nr. DM/023/1525).
1 Refugees and Fortune Seekers: Artists from the Low Countries in Britain, An Overview in Numbers — Rieke van Leeuwen
2 Nicholas Stone the Elder (c. 1587–1647) and his Circle — Adam White
3 Between Two Courts: Gerard van Honthorst and Stuart Patrons in London and The Hague — Michele Frederick
4 Fire and Plague: Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Career in England — John Loughman
5 The Van de Velde Studio at the Queen’s House — Allison Goudie and Imogen Tedbury
6 Dutch Terminology in Artists’ Workshops in London — Ulrike Kern
7 Leatherwork and Kwab Frames: 17th-Century Auricular Picture Frames and their Anglo-Dutch Context — Gerry Alabone
8 Copying the Cartouche: Anglo-Dutch Encounters in Cartography and Slavery — Eleanor Stephenson
9 John van Collema: A Dutch India Goods Merchant in London — Amy Lim
10 The Print Collection of William Cartwright (1606–1686): A Reconstruction — Ellinoor Bergvelt
11 Thomas Worlidge’s Claim to Fame: An Approach to Rembrandt’s Printed Tronies in 18th-Century England — Rebecca Welkens
12 The Griffier Family of Painters and the Young Thomas Gainsborough — Rica Jones
13 Willem van de Velde’s Fame in 18th-Century England — Remmelt Daalder
14 In the Wake of the Old Masters: Dutch Modern Artists in Britain, 1780–1830 — Quirine van der Meer Mohr
Funding News | Mellon Centre Publication and Digitisation Grants
The Mellon Centre recently announced changes to its publication grants and the introduction of digitization grants:
Paul Mellon Centre Funding: Publication and Digitisation Grants
Applications accepted 5 August — 30 September 2024
Ahead of the opening of the autumn 2024 round of funding opportunities we have made some alterations to simplify and improve our Publication Grants. Our Publication Grants continue to be one of our most heavily subscribed awards, and in 2023 received over ninety applications. Therefore we have decided to streamline the process; instead of having the single Publication Grant, for which authors and publishers could apply separately or together, from autumn 2024 there will be three distinct grant categories:
Author Grants (Large)
Awards of up to £6,000 which can only be applied for by authors, editors or individuals working on a long-form piece of written work (e.g. monograph, catalogue etc.). This award is designed to support costs incurred by the author relating to the publication, such as image purchasing and copyright, commissioning of new photography or graphics, marketing/publicity costs and supporting publisher subventions.
Author Grants (Small)
Awards of up to £1,000 which can only be applied for by individuals working on a short-form piece of written work (e.g. article, chapter etc.) for a scholarly journal or edited volume. This award is primarily designed to support costs incurred by the individual for images use associated with their piece of writing (e.g. copyright costs, image purchasing, commissioning of new photography or graphics).
Exhibition Publication Grants
Awards of up to £6,000 which can only be applied for by organisations, institutions or publishers working on a publication associated with an exhibition on British art or architectural history. The publication could be due to be published to coincide with the exhibition or as a direct result of an exhibition. This award is primarily designed to support the practical costs incurred by the organisation, institution or publisher when publishing the work (e.g. printing, binding, image rights, commissioning new photography or images, indexing, copy-editing, production costs, marketing and publicity etc.). If a publisher is interested in applying for a grant for a publication not relating to an exhibition we would encourage them to speak to the author or editor so they can apply for an Author Grant (Large).
Applications will open on 5 August and close 30 September. Please do contact the Grants & Fellowships Manager if you have any questions relating to these changes. Multiple applications across these schemes, for the same publication, will not be accepted. If an applicant is interested in digitising a publication then we would encourage them to look at our new Digitisation Grant which is due to be introduced in autumn 2024.
Supporting the field of British art history publishing has been an important strand of grantmaking for Paul Mellon Centre since its inception in 1970. These changes to the structure of the publications grants will not impact on the overall amount awarded to publication annually, and we will endeavour to support as many projects as possible.
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Digitisation Grants
The Mellon Centre is pleased to be able to introduce Digitisation Grants, a new funding opportunity that will be offered for the first time in our autumn 2024 round. Our Digital Project Grant was introduced in 2015 and since then has supported a variety of fascinating and innovative digital projects; however, since its inception we have noticed that many applicants are looking for funding to support more straightforward digitisation projects, and we hope this new grant will help.
The Digitisation Grant is an award of up to £5,000 and is specifically designed to help organisations make materials from their collections freely available for users online via digital methods. The grant may be used towards the practical costs of in-house digitisation (e.g. equipment and software), hiring an external digitisation service and personnel costs for cataloguing or research purposes.
Materials to be digitised could include:
• photographic collections
• archival collections of letters, index cards, notes etc.
• bound volumes (e.g. diaries, magazines, newspapers, albums, sketchbooks, published books etc.)
• objects, paintings or assets
• publications
Please note that organisations can only apply for this award to digitise items in their own collections.
We hope this grant will help to make materials concerning British art and architectural history available to a wider audience and continue Paul Mellon Centre’s mission to champion new ways of understanding British art history and culture.
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