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From ArtHist.net:

Collectors, Agents, Art Dealers:

The Rise and Expansion of Vienna’s Art Market, 17th–18th Century

Department of Art History, University of Vienna, 13–14 November 2025

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9:30  Welcome
• Thomas Wallnig, Vice Dean, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
• Silvia Tammaro for the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting

10.00  Session 1 | Agents, Collectors, and Collections
Chair: Roswitha Juffinger
• Tina Košak (Maribor University) — Circulation of Artworks in the Late 17th and Early 18th Century Aristocratic Collections: Some Styrian and Carniolan Cases
• Katharina Leithner (Liechtenstein, The Princely Collections) — Viele Wege führen nach Wien. Transport, Transaktionen und Logistik am Beispiel der Fürstlichen Sammlungen Liechtenstein
• Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) — A Banker for Maratta: Financial and Logistical Networks between Italy and Vienna, 17th–18th Centuries
• Chiara Petrolini (Università di Bologna) — Manuscript Markets: Sebastian Tengnagel and the Trade in ‘Oriental’ Books

14.00  Session 2 | The Emergence of the Art Market
Chair: Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata
• Christof Jeggle (Universität Wien) — The Constitution of Art Markets: Shipping Art on the Danube to Vienna
• Anja Grebe (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems) — Art Dealing and Connoisseurship: Dürer Collectors, Dürer Forgeries, and the Viennese Art Market in the Pre-modern Era
• Gernot Mayer (Universität Wien) — Bewerten und Verwerten: Bilderschätzer als Protagonisten des Wiener Kunsthandels
• Paolo Coen (Università di Teramo) — Tra Roma e Vienna: Dinamiche del mercato artistico nel XVIII secolo
• Silvia Tammaro (Universität Wien) — The Art Dealer Artaria: At the Heart of the Network of Collectors and Artists between Italy and Vienna

17.30  Keynote Lecture
• Koenraad Jonckheere (Ghent University) — Late 17th-Century Art Markets: A Review and a Preview

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9.30  Session 3 | International Networks of Exchange and Production
Chair: Silvia Tammaro
• Marco Coppe (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) — Networks of Taste: Silverwork and Porcelain between Tuscany and Vienna through Models and Collecting, 17th–18th Centuries
• Claudia Lehner-Jobst (Porzellanmuseum im Augarten Wien) — ‘Wisdom must be the guide to success’: Enlightened Marketing Strategies and Operations at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna
• Bernhard Woytek (Universität Wien) — Collecting Ancient Coins in 18th-Century Vienna: A General Framework and Some Case Studies
• Martina Fleischer (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) — …in Rücksicht der ausserordentlichen guten Wahl von schönsten und seltenstenn Gemälden… Die Sammlung Lamberg-Sprinzenstein und ihre Entstehung in Wien um 1800

12.00  Methodological Outlook
• Christian Huemer (Belvedere Research Center Wien) — Perspectives on the Study of Art Markets

12.30  Concluding Discussions

Sir John Vanbrugh, Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland, near Newcastle, 1718–28. Ravaged by fire in 1822, it is now owned by the National Trust.

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Next spring at the University of Cambridge:

Vanbrugh from Stage to Stone

Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge, 27 March 2026

This international academic conference will explore the impact and legacy of Sir John Vanbrugh. The event marks the tercentenary of Vanbrugh’s death in March 1726 and forms part of the Vanbrugh300 festival for 2026, organised by The Georgian Group, the conservation organisation founded in 1937 to protect and promote Georgian buildings.

For those requiring hotel accommodations, there are two options nearby: the Regency Guesthouse, an independent boutique hotel, and the University Arms, a luxury hotel located directly across Regent Street from Downing College.

This conference is organised by the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture (CSCA) at the University of Cambridge in partnership with The Georgian Group.

Registration is now open via The Georgian Group website.

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Detail of Blenheim Palace (Photo by Tony Hisgett CC BY-SA 2.0).

9.00  Registration breakfast with tea and coffee

9.45  Introductory Remarks — Frank Salmon (CSCA) and Anya Lucas (The Georgian Group)

10.00  Session 1 | Vanbrugh: The Writer and Herald
Chair: Charles Saumarez Smith
• Christopher Ridgway — Sir John Vanbrugh: The Letters of a ‘Great and Versatile Character’
• Annette Rubery — ‘I confess I have not at all stuck to the original’: John Vanbrugh as Translator and Adaptor
• David Roberts — The Playwright in Print
• James Peill — Vanbrugh as Herald

11.15  Coffee and tea

11.45  Session 2 | Vanbrugh: The Architect and Politician
Chair: Charlotte Davis
• Matthew Wood — Weighing Scales of Power? The State Apartments at Castle Howard
• Susie West — Vanbrugh and the Country House Plan
• Rory Fraser — John Vanbrugh: The Politician behind the Polymath

13.00  Lunch

14.00  Session 3 | Vanbrugh’s Network
Chair: Elizabeth Deans
• Melanie Hayes and Andrew Tierney — Building Relations: Collaboration, Achievement, and Artisanal Agency in Vanbrugh’s Architectural Practice
• Helen Lawrence-Beaton — Parallel Careers and Building Neighbours: The Relationship between Vanbrugh and Thomas Archer
• James Legard — Vanbrugh/Hawksmoor: The Graphic Anatomy of an Architectural Partnership

15.00  Tea and cake

15.30  Session 4 | Vanbrugh at Stowe
Chair: Frank Salmon
• Tom Nancollas — Vanbrugh’s Sleeping Parlour: Anatomy of a Lost Folly
• Michael Bevington — Vanbrugh’s Innovative Architectural Reconstructions at Stowe
• Francis Terry — Vanbrugh’s Design for Stowe

16.30  Break

16.45  Panel Discussion | Vanbrugh’s Influence
Chair: Matthew Walker
• Jeremy Musson, Frances Sands, and Owen Hopkins

17.30  Champagne reception

From Newport Mansions:

The French Influence in Newport

Rosecliff and Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island, 6–7 November 2025

French art, architecture, design and cuisine permeated the lifestyles of the Gilded Age elite as they looked to the French aristocracy for inspiration. Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, modeled the architecture of Alva Vanderbilt’s Marble House after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. Horace Trumbauer’s inspiration for The Elms came from the 18th-century Château d’Asnières, while Stanford White’s design for Rosecliff incorporated elements of another Versailles palace, the Grand Trianon. Furniture maker and interior designer Jules Allard et Fils furnished Newport’s summer ‘cottages’ with treasures inspired by and imported from France, and French chefs created magnificent culinary confections. Learn about all of this and more during the symposium’s morning lectures and guided afternoon tours (Thursday at Rosecliff and Friday at Marble House). Registration includes special access to the exhibition Richard Morris Hunt: In a New Light at Rosecliff.

Scholarships are available to assist undergraduate and graduate students interested in attending the symposium.

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Speakers
• Keynote Speaker: Mathieu Deldicque, Chief Curator and Museum Director of Château de Chantilly
• Margot Bernstein, Private Collection Curator
• Becky Libourel Diamond, Food Culture Historian
• Leslie Jones, Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator, the Preservation Society
• Laura Bergemann, former Preservation Society Conservation Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University
• Théo Lourenço, Preservation Society Curatorial Research Fellow

f r i d a y ,  7  n o v e m b e r

Speakers
• Justine De Young, Associate Professor and Chair of the History of Art Department, Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY) in New York City
• Natalie Larson, Interior Textile Historian, Historic Textile Reproductions LLC
• Nadia Albertini, French Heritage Society Scholar, Franco-Mexican embroidery and textile designer
• Bob Shaw, HBO’s The Gilded Age Production Designer

Johan Cornelius Krieger, Ledreborg Castle, Denmark (about 30 miles west of Copenhagen). Most of the house was constructed in the 1740s.

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From ENCOUNTER:

Servants, Labourers, and the Manorial World: Alternative Perspectives

9th ENCOUNTER Conference

Ledreborg Castle, Denmark, 9–11 October 2025

The European Network for Country House and Estate Research (ENCOUNTER) is pleased to host its ninth conference, organized in collaboration with The Danish Research Centre for Manorial Studies and Gammel Estrup, The Danish Manor Museum.

The manor or country house is often viewed exclusively as a stage for the economic and political elite of the past, a setting for splendour, luxury, and self-presentation. However, the world of the manor also included a well-defined hierarchy consisting of landowning families, tenant farmers, servants, craftsmen and labourers, all negotiating the dynamics of power. Ideally, the manor operated as a paternalistic institution built on mutual obligations: masters provided care and protection and subordinates offered work, loyalty and obedience. This relationship was both a practical arrangement and an ideological framework, a power dynamic and a manifestation of social inequality.

These historical structures could however be a source of both resistance and conflict as well as support and benevolence. On a larger scale, country houses became both targets and symbols during major confrontations, from peasant revolts to revolutions and civil wars. On a smaller scale, historical court records reveal conflicts involving servants and owners or the owners’ representatives. Conversely, the manor provided the social framework for many people’s lives, offering employment, housing, and protection. Country house owners offered patronage and sought to cultivate the religious and moral development of their staff and communities. Loyal service was rewarded with promotions and comfortable living conditions. Manors funded churches, schools, alms-houses, and gave donations. However, the nineteenth century brought dramatic social changes, as industrialisation drew labor and wealth into the urban centres. To what extent were these changes driven by further political developments and societal reforms? Was social change in a rural context a one-way phenomenon dictated by landowners?

This ENCOUNTER conference will explore these dynamics, primarily focusing on a bottom-up perspective, highlighting the master-servant relationship in its full paternalistic scope, and addressing household, villages, rural communities, etc. This includes shedding light on the conditions and material realities for servants and workers, as well as the organisational structures. And to explore conflicts/resistance and limits within the relationship, as well as changes in the nature and conditions of the relationship over time.

ENCOUNTER was founded in Denmark in 2015 and has since provided a framework for interaction between scholars and cultural institutions in Europe sharing a professional interest in the research and interpretation of manor and country house history. The conference thus also marks the network’s 10th anniversary.

Abstracts for each paper are available here»

t h u r s d a y ,  9  o c t o b e r

8.40  Bus departure from Scandic Roskilde

8.55  Bus departure from Roskilde Station

9.15  Arrival Ledreborg Estate

10.00  Welcome — Kasper Steenfeldt Tipsmark (Gammel Estrup The Danish Manor & Estate Museum) and Signe Boeskov (The Danish Research Centre for Manorial Studies)

10.15  Keynote
• Aristocratic Servants in 17th-Century Sweden: Gender, Recruitment, and Career — Svante Norrhem (Lund University)

10.55  Session 1 | Servants
Chair: Kasper Steenfeldt Tipsmark
• Servants’ Property and Material Culture on Swedish Manors, 1770–1870 — Göran Ulväng (Uppsala University)
• The Organisation of the Household: The Role of High-Ranking Servants at 19th-Century Danish Manors — Signe Boeskov and Søren Broberg Knudsen (The Danish Research Centre for Manorial Studies)
• Behind the Scenes of the Manor — Aina Aske (Vestfoldmuseene IKS) and Lars Jacob Hvinden-Haug (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, NIKU)
• Hidden Doors and Secret Passages: Telling the Story of Servants in Eidsvoll House — Solveig Therese Dahl (Eidsvoll 1814, The Norsk Folkemuseum foundation)

13.00  Lunch

14.10  Guided tour Ledreborg

15.25  Session 2 | Labour and Estate Community
Chair: Paul Zalewski (European University of Viadrina)
• The Transition from Serfdom to the Industrial Worker in the Vodka Distillery of the Estonian Manor during the 19th Century — Mirje Tammaru (Estonian Academy of Arts)
• Arm Wrestling: Agency and Negotiations between Tenant Farmers and the Big House: An Alternative Perspective from Four 18th-Century Estates in the Netherlands — Gerrit van Oosterom, (independent researcher)
• Labourers on the Estate—Esbogård, 1770–1920 — Tryggve Gestrin (Espoo City Museum)
• Work, Family, Security: The Relationships and Life Strategies within the Håkansböle Manor Community — Eeva Kotioja (Vantaa City Museum)

17.30  Discussion and break

18.45  Dinner at Restaurant Herthadalen

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8.10  Bus departure from Scandic Roskilde

8.25  Bus departure from Roskilde Station

8.45  Arrival Ledreborg Estate

9.30  Early Career Keynote
• Early Modern Estates as Communities of ‘Care’: Medical Practice across the Social Hierarchy in Rural England, 1650–1750 — Emma Marshall (University of Birmingham and University of York)

10.10  Session 3 | Care and Crisis
Chair: Hanneke Ronnes (University of Groningen)
• A Manorial World in Miniature? The Hospital of Laurvig County in the 18th Century — Arne Bugge Amundsen (University of Oslo)
• The State, the Subjects, and the Lord: Conflicts at Ängsö Manor, 1690–1710 — Joakim Scherp (Stockholm University and The Riksdag Library)
• Caring Beyond the Grave? The Estate of Denis Roest van Alkemade (1720–1791) — Thijs Boers (Amsterdam Museum and University of Amsterdam)

12.15  Lunch

13.35  Bus departure for Gisselfeld

14.30  Guided tour of Gisselfeld

16.45  Departure for Vallø

17.20  Guided tour of Vallø

19.00  Dinner at Vallø Slotskro

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8.10  Bus departure from Scandic Roskilde

8.25  Bus departure from Roskilde Station

9.30  Guided tour of Gjorslev

11.15  Departure for Gavnø

12.35  Lunch at Café Tulipanen / Guided tour of Gavnø

14.45  Bus departure

16.15  Arrival Scandic Roskilde

16.30  Arrival Roskilde Banegård

From the Meissen Porcelain Museum:

1st Meissen Symposium: Höroldt’s Legacy

Meissen Porzellan-Stiftung, Meißen, 7–9 November 2025

The Meissen Porcelain Foundation is hosting the Meissen Symposium, part of what is envisioned as a regular series of symposia aimed at facilitating exchanges on ceramic history at the birthplace of European porcelain. The subject of this year’s symposium is Höroldt’s Legacy, with an emphasis on ceramic pigments, their historical and contemporary development, and their use within the Meissen Manufactory and beyond. The occasion for this year’s symposium is the 250th anniversary of the deaths in 1775 of Meissen’s two towering figures, Johann Gregorius Höroldt (1696–1775) and Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706–1775).

Höroldt’s arrival in Meissen in 1720 signaled a breakthrough in porcelain painting. Höroldt was an innovative artist with a natural and intuitive understanding of pigment chemistry without any formal training. He developed the proper technology for the enameling of porcelain using metal-oxide-based pigments at high temperatures. Today, his initial set of 16 enamel colors has grown to around 10,000.

Augustus the Strong’s initial objective was the making of blue-and-white porcelain, similar to that of the Chinese. With Höroldt’s arrival the success story of overglaze polychrome painting began. Inspired initially by East Asian decors it was expanded to include European flower painting, the classic harbor scenes, hunting scenes, and scenes after Watteau, Ridinger and others. In the 19th century it was expanded to royal blue ground, to include platinum, pâte-sur-pâte, and Limoges painting. Experiments with tinted porcelain paste can be traced to the 18th century. Exploring the miscibility of colorants was intensely investigated as documented by the hundreds of surviving, meticulously documented and archived color samples in the Meissen Manufactory Museum. In-glaze painting, and the invention of soluble and high-temperature resistant colorants that could be used underglaze were significant additional technological developments. Advances in scientific analysis are expected to provide new insights.

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10.00  Morning Session
1  Frank Löchelt, Meissen — Color Laboratory / Farblabor der Manufaktur
2  Nicholas Zumbulyadis, USA — Influencing the Influencer: Thoughts about the Origins of Höroldt’s Technological Advances / Wer beeinflusste Höroldt: Gedanken zu den Ursprüngen von Höroldts technologischen Fortschritten
3  Ullrich Knüpfer — Insights into the Technological Basics of Polychrome Porcelain Decoration / Technologische Grundlagen der farbigen Porzellan-Dekoration
4  Annett Lorenz, Meissen — Porcelain Painter: Aspects of Figure Painting / Porzellanmaler: Aspekte der Figurenmalerei
5  Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, USA — Glazed Canvases: New Approaches to the Study of (Miniature) Painting on Meissen Porcelain / Neue Ansätze zur Erforschung der (Miniatur-)Malerei auf Meissener Porzellan
6  Holger Schill, Meissen — Head of Bundling and Finishing: A Practical Report on Customer Requests, Color Palettes, and New Decors / Leiter Bund- und Endfertigung: Ein Praxisbericht über Kundenwünsche, Farbpalletten und neue Dekore

1.30  Lunch

3.00  Afternoon Session
7  Sebastian Bank, SKD — Frankenthal Colors: From Meissen to the Palatinate / Die Entwicklung der Frankenthaler Farben aus kunsthistorischer Sicht
8  Uwe Marschner, Meissen — About Pate-sure-pate Painting / Leiter Modellherstellung und Formenarchiv: Zur Pate-sure-pate Malerei
9  Lena Hensel, Meissen — Meissen Today / Leiterin Produktentwicklung: Meissen heute

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9.30 Welcome

10.00  Morning Session
1  Susanne Bochmann, Meissen — Porzellan-Stiftung Color Samples and Patterns in the Collections of the Meissen Porcelain Foundation / Farbproben und Farbmuster in der Sammlung der Meissen Porzellan-Stiftung
2  Jens Petzold, KI-Institut Meißen — The Influence of Firing on Ceramic Colors / Einfluss der Brandführung auf keramische Farben
3  Lena Kaapke, Künstlerin — Inquiring the Red: A Visually and Sensually Organized, Tactile Archive of Various Red Ceramic Surfaces / Befragungen an das Rot: ein visuell und sinnlich geordnetes, haptisches Archiv verschiedener keramisch roter Oberflächen
4  Zhong Zhenhua, Deputy Dean of the School of International Exchange and Education and the Deputy Director of the Ceramic Culture Exchange and Research Center at Jingdezhen College — Johann Gregorius Höroldt and Jingdezhen Porcelain: The Historical and Aesthetic Connections between Höroldt’s Chinoiserie and Jingdezhen’s Ceramic Heritage / Johann Gregorius Höroldt und Jingdezhen-Porzellan: Die historischen und ästhetischen Verbindungen zwischen Höroldts Chinoiserie und dem keramischen Erbe von Jingdezhen
5  Vanessa Sigalas, Wadsworth Atheneum, USA — Where Are All the White Figures? Later Decorated Meissen Porcelain / Wo sind all die weißen Figuren? Später dekoriertes Meissener Porzellan
6  Valérie Montens, Curator of European Ceramics and Glass Collections, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels; and Sofia Cruz Oulhaj, student in conservation and restoration of ceramic and glass, ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels — From Restoration to Attribution: Scientific and Stylistic Reassessment of a Meissen Huntress Figurine / Von der Restaurierung zur Zuschreibung: Wissenschaftliche und stilistische Neubewertung einer Meissener Jägerinnenfigur

1.00  Lunch

2.30  Afternoon Session
7  Bernd Ullrich — Initial Analytical Material Investigations on Historical Products from the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory Using X-ray Fluorescence, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Electron Beam Microprobe Technology in the 1980s at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg / Erste analytische Werkstoffuntersuchungen an historischen Erzeugnissen der Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen mittels Röntgenfloureszenz, Rasterelektronenmikroskopie und Elektronenstrahlmikrosondentechnik in den 1980er Jahren an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg
8  Philippe Colomban, Sorbonne University — How to Extract the Maximum Information on Enamels in a Non-invasive Way with Mobile Instrumentation (Raman + pXRF), Explaining which Results Can Be Reliable and What the Difficulties Are, with the Example of This France/Italy/Germany/China Comparison / Wie man mit mobilen Messgeräten (Raman + pXRF) auf nicht-invasive Weise möglichst viele Informationen über Glasur gewinnt, wobei anhand des Vergleichs zwischen Frankreich, Italien, Deutschland und China erläutert wird, welche Ergebnisse zuverlässig sind und wo die Schwierigkeiten liegen
9  Christian Lechelt, Fürstenberg — For Some Years Now, the Museum Schloss Fürstenberg and the Freundeskreis Fürstenberger Porzellan e. V. Have Collaborated with Cranfield University and Leiden University on a Project Aimed at Gaining New Insights into 18th-Century Fürstenberg Porcelain Production Using X-ray Fluorescence Analysis / Seit einigen Jahren verfolgen das Museum Schloss Fürstenberg und der Freundeskreis Fürstenberger Porzellan e. V. zusammen mit den Universitäten in Cranfield (UK) und Leiden (NL) ein Projekt, um mittels Roentgenfluoreszenzanalyse zu neuen Erkenntnissen über die Fürstenberger Porzellanproduktion des 18. Jahrhunderts zu gelangen

4.15  Panel Discussion / Podiumsdiskussion