Enfilade

Left: Gerrit van Honthorst, King Charles I, 1628 (London: National Portrait Gallery). Right: Jacob Jordaens, A Maidservant with a Basket of Fruit and Two Lovers, 1629–35 (Glasgow: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum).

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From CODART:

Close Encounters: Cross-Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and Britain, 1500–1800
RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, 22–23 September 2022

On 22 and 23 September 2022, a symposium will be held at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History on the occasion of the launch of the richly annotated and illustrated digital English version of Horst Gerson’s chapter on Britain from his Ausbreitung und Nachwirkung der holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts of 1942 (Dispersal and Legacy of Dutch Painting of the 17th Century). The event is jointly organized by the RKD and the embassy of the UK in the Netherlands, University of Amsterdam and Courtauld Institute of Art.

Before 1942, the study of Dutch art and artists in Britain was largely uncharted territory. In the last thirty years, research on early modern artists migration and cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Great Britain has progressed rapidly and in various directions. In particular, the Dutch and Flemish artists community in London and the careers of individual artists at the English and Scottish courts have received attention. The same goes for the collection history of Netherlandish art in the UK. The launch of the annotated and translated version of Gerson’s text marks the perfect occasion to rethink, discuss, and contextualize his original findings with current knowledge.

At the symposium Close Encounters, international experts from the UK, the United States, Germany, and The Netherlands will present a range of papers that will draw attention to different aspects of this cultural exchange: artists’ and dealers’ travels and routes, artist’s education, networks, patronage, as well as styles and its implications for connoisseurship. Tickets are available through the RKD website: €30 (€15 students).

Program Committee
• Rieke van Leeuwen (RKD)
• Angela Jager (RKD)
• Karen Hearn (Honorary Professor, University College London)
• Sander Karst (University of Amsterdam)
• David Taylor (Independent, previously National Trust and National Galleries Schotland)
• Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute of Art)

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9.45  Registration and Coffee

10.30  Welcome and Introduction
• Chris Stolwijk (General Director RKD) — Welcome
• Lucy Ferguson (Deputy Ambassador of the UK in the Netherlands) — Welcome
• Rieke van Leeuwen — Introduction to the Program

11.00  Session 1: Cross-Cultural Networks and Collaboration
Chairs: Sander Karst and David Taylor
• Adam White — Nicholas Stone the Elder (c. 1587–1647) and His Circle: Anglo-Netherlandish Inter-Action in Sculpture, Architecture, and Painting
• Imogen Tedbury — The Van de Velde Studio at the Queen’s House
• Ada De Wit — Woodcarvers and Their Anglo-Netherlandish Network: Grinling Gibbons and Laurens van der Meulen

12.30  Lunch Break

13.30  Session 2: Thinking Differently about Cross-Cultural Exchange
Chairs: Karen Hearn and Joanna Woodall
• Gary Alabone — Leatherwork and Kwab: Influences between English and Netherlandish Picture Frames
• Flash Talk: Eleanor Stephenson — Copying the Cartouche: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Dutch and English Cartography, 1658–1675
• Amy Lim — John van Collema: A Dutch India Merchant in London
• Ulrike Kern — Dutch Art Terminology in the British Workshop

15.15  Coffee and Tea Break

15.45  Session 3: 17th-Century Netherlandish Painters and Their Relations to British Patrons
Chairs: Angela Jager and Joanna Woodall
• Michele Fredericksen — Between Two Courts: Gerrit van Honthorst and Stuart Patrons in London and The Hague
• Flash Talk: Rebekka Hoummady — A Kings Daughter in Exile: Diplomatic and Artistical Mediation between the Courts of Elizabeth Stuart and Charles I by Gerrit van Honthorst
• John Loughman — Samuel van Hoogstraten’s English Patrons

Launch of Gerson Digital: Britain
• Karen Hearn and Rieke van Leeuwen — Gerson Digital: UK, the Project
Panel Discussion

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9.30  Registration and Coffee

10.00  Session 4: Collecting and Art Trade
Chairs: Angela Jager and David Taylor
• Ellinoor Bergvelt and Helen Hillyard — Dutch Paintings for Everyone! A Study of the Cartwright Collection at Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Sander Karst — Migration and Adaptation: Netherlandish Artists and the Art Market in Late 17th-Century Britain
• Tico Seiffert — Collecting Rembrandt’s Art in Britain before 1700
• Kate Heard — George IV (1762–1830) as a Collector of Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings
• Quentin Buvelot — British Connections in the Collection of the Mauritshuis

12.30  Lunch Break  Opportunity to visit the Mauritshuis

14.30  Session 5: Legacy of the Dutch Golden Age
Chairs: Karen Hearn and Rieke van Leeuwen
• Remmelt Daalder — ‘Whom no Age has equalll’d in Ship-painting’, Willem van de Velde: World Famous in 18th-Century England
• Rica Jones — Untangling the Tangled Evidence of Jan Griffier the Elder’s Descendants and a Note on Their Legacy in British Painting
• Rebecca Welkens — Thomas Worlidge, His Approach to Rembrandt’s Prints, and the Construction of Concepts of Fame in England in the 18th Century
• Flash Talk: Quirine van de Meer Mohr — In the Wake of the Old Masters: The Migration of Dutch Modern Artists in Early 19th-Century Britain

16.30  Drinks Reception

From the conference programme, with more information about the Collecta research project noted below :

Inventaires et cartographies du patrimoine, XVIIe–XXIe siècle
École du Louvre, Paris, 15–16 September 2022

Organisé dans le cadre du programme de recherche Collecta Archives numériques de la collection Gaignières (1642–1715)

Depuis 2014, le programme de recherche Collecta interroge les pratiques érudites du Grand Siècle et les met en perspective à partir de l’exemple de la collection de François-Roger de Gaignières (1642–1715).

Sa reconstitution et sa mise en ligne ont requis la création d’un outil numérique (collecta.fr) qui tente de rendre compte des liens et des cheminements qui se trament, au sein de la collection :
• à travers les stades du travail de l’érudit — des sources, notes et brouillons aux dessins mis au net et classés pour la présentation au public ;
• à travers les matériaux réunis par l’érudit — tableaux et gravures, manuscrits et imprimés, dessins et copies d’archives ;
• à travers les points d’entrée retenus par l’érudit — personnes, familles, institutions, lieux, périodes.

Se dessinent ainsi les itinéraires mentaux, documentaires, mais aussi spatiaux de l’érudit à travers ses sources, son réseau de contacts, les lieux qu’il visite, ses centres d’intérêt et les méthodes qu’il déploie dans son objectif d’inventaire des monuments et des familles du royaume et de l’Europe.

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9.30  Accueil des participants

10.00  Ouverture du colloque — Claire Barbillon (École du Louvre) et François Bougard (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS)

10.20  Introduction
• Après Gaignières : continuité et discontinuité, les enjeux d’une reconstitution numérique de la collection — Anne Ritz-Guilbert (École du Louvre / Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS)
• Le point de vue du design : mise en perspective de la nouvelle interface Collecta & esthétique de la structure — Sophie Fétro (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Kim Sacks (Université de Strasbourg)

13.00  I. Héraldique et territoires
Michel Pastoureau (École pratique des Hautes Études)
• Marquage héraldique, cartographie et histoire des lignages : les relevés de Gaignières à la chapelle des chanoinesses de Luynes — Sarah Héquette (École du Louvre / École pratique des Hautes Études)
• Une géographie des ordres ? L’ombre de la chevalerie dans la collection Gaignières — Pierre Couhault (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
• Inventorier et cartographier l’héraldique des municipalités portugaises : l’armorial de Cristóvão Alão de Morais — Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
• La cartographie héraldique de Frotier de la Messelière — Laurent Hablot (École pratique des Hautes Études)

15.45  II. La copie comme mise en récit des archives
Marlène Helias-Baron (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS)
• L’apport des copies de Gaignières à la connaissance des archives de l’abbaye de Longpont — Benoît-Michel Tock (Université de Strasbourg)
• Voyage au passé. Les cartulaires de la collection Gaignières comme fenêtres sur les archives de jadis — Annalena Müller (Université de Fribourg)

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9.00  III. Voyages, séries, topographies
Émilie d’Orgeix (École pratique des Hautes Études)
• Construire une collection topographique au XVIIe siècle. L’élaboration des portefeuilles dans la collection Gaignières — Damien Bril (Institut national du patrimoine)
• Mémoires des lieux, mémoires des hommes. Étude du portefeuille topographique « Beauce et Vendômois » de la collection Gaignières (1642–1715) — Clotilde Vivier (École du Louvre)
• Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes. Lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle – milieu du XVIIe siècle) — Eric Grosjean (École pratique des Hautes Études)
• Voyager en image : la topographie dans la collection de Jehannin de Chamblanc (1722–1797) — Johanna Daniel (Institut national d’histoire de l’art, LAHRA – Lyon 2)

14.00  IV. Visualisation et narration, du portefeuille au numérique
Anne Ritz-Guilbert (École du Louvre/Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS)
• Les humanités numériques, un lieu pour les archives du bizarre — Myriam Marrache-Gouraud (Université de Poitiers)
• Construire un outil d’association de données à l’heure de l’open data : la Fabrique Numérique du Passé — Laurent Costa (UMR 7041 ArScAn)
• La fabrique du paysage urbain parisien avant les destructions haussmanniennes : inventorier et cartographier les savoirs — Ellie Khounlivong (École du Louvre), Christophe Claramunt (Institut de Recherche de l’École navale), Éric Mermet (Centre d’analyse et de mathématique sociales, UMR 8557), et Alexandre Radjesvarane (CY Tech)

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From Le Domaine d’Intérêt Majeur Sciences du Texte et Connaissances Nouvelles:

The Collecta + Project is part of a larger research program in digital humanities, devoted to the collection of François-Roger de Gaignières (1642–1715). After launching the website http://www.collecta.fr and its database which provides a reconstitution of the collection now dispersed, Collecta + has defined three main objectives, in partnership with the ANG-G project (Digital Geolocated Archive — the Gaignières collection) sponsored by the ANR (Research Project Funding) within the framework of the IRHT-CNRS.

The first goal is to enrich the database, giving priority to documents relating to the Ile-de-France region. The complete digitization of the Gaignières collection kept in the Bodleian Library of Oxford—1,600 drawings of medieval and modern monuments, mainly from the Paris region—offers a considerable breakthrough in the knowledge of the region’s collection and heritage.

Secondly, we will examine the contribution of geolocation to bring out a better understanding of the collection and the monuments concerned. A mobile application based on the drawings of the Gaignières collection will be the central tool of a participatory research method to launch an inquiry on local heritage. The collection of geolocated datas will offer the opportunity to conduct a large-scale study on the history of viewpoints.

The third objective is to promote interchanges with other projects or partners of the DIM STCN, in particular E-signa and the Bibale database of the IRHT-CNRS. Sharing digital ressources and tools, we will accentuate the interoperability of academic programmes and we will ultimately offer a common platform as a reference frame for research on regional, national and international levels.

From the V&A:

Celebrating the Birth of English and Irish Crystal Drinking Glass, 1640–1702
In-person and online, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 6 October 2022

Organised by Colin Brain, Reino Liefkes, and Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, with assistance from Simon Spier

2022 has been designated the International Year of Glass by the United Nations. This year also marks 125 years since the publication of Albert Harshorne’s Old English Glasses, the first serious study of the history of English and Irish glass. To celebrate, the V&A is presenting a conference Celebrating the Birth of English and Irish Crystal Drinking Glass, 1640–1702, in partnership with the Association for the History of Glass. This study day aims to explore the evolving story of the birth of these sophisticated products, a century before the ‘industrial revolution’ began.

The conference has been organised by Colin Brain (Association for the History of Glass), Reino Liefkes (V&A) and Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth (University of Edinburgh), with assistance from Dr Simon Spier (V&A).

In-person tickets, through Eventbrite

Online tickets, through Eventbrite

Roemer drinking glass, attributed to George Ravenscroft, probably at the Savoy Glasshouse, London, ca. 1677 (London: V&A, C.530-1936).

P R O G R A M M E

10.00  Registration with Tea and Coffee

10.25  Welcome — Justine Bayley and Reino Liefke

10.30  Morning Session
• Colin Brain — ‘And of noe other sorts or fashions’: Fashionable Design in the Birth of English and Irish Crystal Drinking Glass
• Peter Francis — The Irish ‘Lead Glass Revolution’
• Jo Wheeler — Recipes for Lead-glass and Cristallo in Venetian and Florentine Sources and Their Influence on Antonio Neri
• Reino Liefkes — A New Type of Colourless Glass in Imitation of Rock Crystal: Crizzled Glass of the Late-Seventeenth Century

1.00  Lunch Break

2.15  Afternoon Session
• Oliver Gunning — New Perspectives on the Role of the Migrant in British Crystal Glass
• Antoine Giacometti — Seventeenth-Century Glass from the Dublin Castle Excavations, 1961–1987
• Inês Coutinho and Colin Brain — Science in the Service of History: Analysis of Early English and Irish Crystalline Glasses
• Iris Moon and Karen Stamm — Drinking Glass in the Met Museum’s British Galleries

5.10  Closing Remarks — Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

James Gibbs, The Great Hall of St Bart’s, London, 1730s (Photo by David Butler). Situated on the first floor of the hospital’s North Wing, the Great Hall is approached by way of a grand staircase, the walls of which were decorated by William Hogarth. At the top of the stairs, the Great Hall is accessed by a dominating doorway opening into the large hall, decorated with portraits and dedications to the early contributors to the redevelopment of the hospital. More information is available here»

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From The Georgian Group:

Architecture and Health, 1660–1830
Georgian Group Symposium, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 3 November 2022

Rescheduled for 27 February 2023

Following successful symposia held by the Georgian Group in previous years—on the Adam Brothers, James Gibbs, Women and Architecture, and Georgian London Revisited (online)—this year’s symposium will address Architecture & Health in the long eighteenth century. Appropriately, it will be held in James Gibbs’s Great Hall at St Bartholomew’s, an institution celebrating its 900th anniversary. A series of short papers by both established and younger scholars, and from a range of disciplines, will examine how and where medicine was studied and debated, how knowledge was disseminated, and how healthcare was provided in what spaces and through what mechanisms. The symposium will be held from 10am to 5pm and will be led by Ann Marie Akehurst. Tickets (£70) include a buffet lunch and reception; a limited number of student tickets (£35 ) are also available. Please read the Terms and Conditions before booking. If tickets have sold out for this event, please email members@georgiangroup.org.uk to be added to the waiting list.

P R O G R A M M E

9.30  Registration

10.00  Welcome

Session 1: Transmission of Medico-Scientific Knowledge
• Matthew Walker — The Architecture of English Anatomy Theatres 1660–1800
• Janet Stiles Tyson — Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal and Bart’s
• Danielle Wilkens — Health in the Academy: Jefferson’s University of Virginia and Landscapes of Inequity

Session 2: Outside the Institutions: Health and Environment
• Joana Balsa de Pinho — Health, Architecture and Urbanism in the Early Modern Era: From Prevention to Treatment
• Allan Brodie — Georgian Margate: A Landscape and Townscape of Health
• India Knight — The Spa at Hampstead

Session 3: Places of Confinement
• Anna Jamieson — ‘Bedlam’s Picture Gallery’: Health, Performance, and the Built Environment at Bethlem
• Leslie Topp — Early Asylums and the Curious Appeal of Prison Designs
• Marina Ini — John Howard and the Quarantine Centres of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean
• Sarah Akibogun — The (Other) Woman in The Attic: Considering Post-Colonial Lenses on the Treatment of Madness in Georgian England

Session 4: Enduring Hospital Spaces
• Tessa Murdoch — French Protestant Hospital in Clerkenwell, 1742
• Elisabeth Einberg — Hogarth’s Use of Architectural Space to Bring Home the Message
• Dan Cruickshank — Bart’s Great Hall
• Will Palin — Bart’s Heritage

5.00  Drinks Reception

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N.B. — (note added 22 February 2023) — The symposium was postponed from November to February due to train strikes; the schedule has also been adjusted with an 11am start time; please see the Georgian Society website for details.