'Understanding British Portraits' is an active professional network for curators, scholars, collections-based learning colleagues and conservators.
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Nobel winners, inspiring women, the pompous, the vain & a reluctant revolutionary - @RCPhysicians art collection has it all. Not to mention artists like Johan Zoffany, Mary Beale & Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Explore with a special portrait tour, 22 May: tinyurl.com/5h2uxwp7
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CfP: 'The British Empire in the Art Gallery: Discourses, Practices, Publics'
📌@NPGLondon 27 Sept 2024
Deadline: 31 May
Join us to critically discuss the empire and the art gallery. Organised by @sean_cham_ and I with @MuseumsBirkbeck.
See: tinyurl.com/beagworkshop
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Fantastic opportunity to study 17th century textiles and paintings in east Lancashire, with @RBKS_Textiles and @LancsMuseums in Gawthorpe Hall.
Register now for our visit to Gawthorpe Hall and Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, organised in collaboration with @DATSnetwork, taking place on Tuesday 14 May. The event will explore connections between 17th-century portraits, dress & textiles. Details here: bit.ly/4df4AUU
ALT James Harrington by Unknown artist. Oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1635. NPG 513 ©National Portrait Gallery
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Really excited to be hosting @UBPnetwork at #GawthorpeHall on 14 May alongside the Textile Collection. Come and see some fantastic textiles and paintings, more details below.
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Great talk - so fascinating to know more about Henry Room & his @RCPmuseum medical portraits – at Merton, London
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Looking forward to being back at @NPGLondon tomorrow to chair the @UBPnetwork annual seminar. Lots of great speakers on the bill and sure to be interesting conversations. More info here: britishportraits.org.uk/even… – at London, England
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I'm excited to be moving in a new (to me) direction with a talk at the @NPGLondon tomorrow for the @UBPnetwork Annual Seminar about Henry Room (1803-1850), who painted a lot of Nonconformist ministers & missionaries, like Rev. John Angell James of Birmingham.
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Delighted to be at the NPG today to chair the Understanding British Portraits @UBPnetwork research network annual seminar. Looking forward to hearing about some recent groundbreaking exhibitions and lots of interesting discussion. – at London, England
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Georgian Women, Portraits by John Russell ends at #GuildfordHouseGallery on 8 October. The exhibition has been made possible with the support of the Understanding British Portraits group. Thank you @UBPnetwork. #JohnRussell
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ALT Charcoal and pastel sketch on paper of a woman in 18th century dress holding a child
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💥Woohoo! 💥 Got my mitts on some printed copies of Doing the Work - a selection of critical, reflective writings about embedding #AntiRacism & #decolonisation in #museum practice by @heritage_io @SylviaTheuri @kathleenlawther @mailbykite @aksana_khan & Jessica Lowe-Mbirimi.
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Our Georgian Women, Portraits by #JohnRussell exhibition at #GuildfordHouseGallery runs until 8 October. We have tactile books for visitors with visual impairments with raised images and Braille descriptions. Free entry. Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4.30pm. @UBPnetwork
ALT White booklets with raised dots and two black line drawings a woman and a woman and child.
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Do you work on early modern domestic spaces? Be one of the first to try out our virtual Elizabethan/Jacobean room. Sign-up to our drop-in event on Thursday 8 September so you don't miss out bit.ly/3Qx7Mj3
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📣 We are looking for new book review editors, for history as well as for art history! Details below - please retweet and share to help us find our next team members, and do get in touch if it could be you 📝📚📚
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📣 Deadline 31 July! 📣
The AAH's Curatorial Prizes aim to celebrate the achievements of curators in UK public museums and galleries, by awarding annual prizes in: exhibitions, interpreting collections and publications.
Nominate / Enter Now!
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1. For anyone in London, I'm giving a free lecture on Thursday called Approaching British Colonial History During the Culture War, especially suitable for students, academics, teachers, heritage and museum professionals. Wine reception after! Book below:
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📢Extended deadline for applications, now Wed 29 June, do get in touch w any queries 👇
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Freelance opp for an event programmer:
Decolonising portrait collections and interpretation, online event Nov/Dec 2022
britishportraits.org.uk/even…
deadline 7 June; pls share and RT!
#CPD #museums #portraits #interpretation #decolonisation #heritage #collections
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The Messels were a distinguished German-Jewish family who enhanced British culture in numerous ways. John Hilary, author of From Refugees to Royalty: The Remarkable Story of the Messel Family of Nymans, joins us in our monthly Zoom meeting to explore their artistic impact fro ...
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CFP: Understanding British Portraits professional network Annual Seminar, M Shed, Bristol, 25 Oct. We're looking for presentation/panel proposals around all aspects of portrait research/curation/learning.
Deadline 6 June: britishportraits.org.uk/even…
Call for papers!
Take part in the Understanding British Portraits Annual Seminar at @mshedbristol on 25 Oct.
Submissions invited for portrait-focused research, conservation, audience engagement, co-production and interpretation presentations
britishportraits.org.uk/even…
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Excited to be part of this great line-up of speakers at the @RCHG_1 Inaugural Conference 30th June-2nd July religioncollections.wordpres… #religiousheritage #jewishreligiousheritage Looking forward to present my PhD research on @jckamsterdam @ReinwardtAcad
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Please can everyone RT so we can attract a great candidate to work with us in this work.🙏🏽 @shamtchK @rrunsworth @Cat_Lumb @willgupshup @ward_esme @BinitaKane @_JasvirSingh
Partition Education Group and @FestivalSangam are seeking a coordinator to lead an inter-generational project to encourage conversation about the Partition of India in 1947 and the resulting legacy this event has had on the UK today.
To find out more -> bit.ly/PEG22Sangam