11-13 nov. 2016, Celle : Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions and Collections
The conference is being held on the occasion of the opening of the sixth exhibition of the Tansey Miniatures Foundation and the publication of the accompanying catalogue ’Miniatures from the Baroque Period in the Tansey Collection’ on 11 November 2016.
Celle Castle, Schlossplatz 1, 29221 Celle, Germany, November 11 - 13, 2016
Registration deadline: Nov 9, 2016
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2016
15:00 Registration and Information, Celle Castle / Rittersaal
16:30 Welcome and Opening of the Exhibition
‘Miniatures from the Baroque Period in the Tansey Collection’
18:00 Exhibition and reception at the Bomann-Museum
SATURDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2016
OBJECTS, AGENCIES AND SOCIAL PRACTICES
09:00 Ulrike Kern, Frankfurt
The Limner’s Language: Words and Concepts Related to Miniature Painting in England
09:30 Miranda L. Elston, Chapel Hill (North Carolina)
Hilliard’s Miniatures: Enacted Desire within the Elizabethan Court
10:00 Eloise Owens, New York
The Hand behind the Likeness: Women’s Practice as Portrait Miniaturists in Eighteenth-Century England
10:30 Discussion
10:45 Coffee
11:15 Christoph Großpietsch, Salzburg
Portrait Miniatures of Mozart – Problems of Authenticity
11:45 Violaine Joëssel, Geneva
A Quest for Legitimacy: The Practice of Miniature Painting in Colonial America
12:15 Dimitri Gorchkoff, Moscow
“ … et que tout ait un nom nouveau ”. Portrait Miniatures of Napoleon’s Marshals, Generals and Colonels: Analysis and Identification
12:45 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
POLITICS AND REPRESENTATION
14:15 Delia Scheffer, Kassel
Power through Relations – Duke Louis of Württemberg’s Family Ties in a Series of Miniature Portraits
14:45 Sarah Grandin, Paris
Density in the Boîte à Portrait under Louis XIV
15:15 Stefanie Linsboth, Vienna
From Large?Scale Paintings to Precious Miniatures – Maria Theresa’s Portrait Miniatures
15:45 Karin Schrader, Bad Nauheim
“Taking the Veil” – Miniatures of Royal Widows from the 16th to the 19th Centuries
16:15 Discussion
16:30 Coffee
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS
17:00 Tatjana Wischniowski, Dresden
Oil-Based Paint Under a Layer of Water – Arnaud Vincent de Montpetit’s “Eludoric Painting”, a Rare Miniature Painting Technique
17:30 Emma Rutherford, Alan Derbyshire, Victoria Button, London
The Drawings of John Smart (1742-1811); Function, Purpose and Line
18:00 Discussion
SUNDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2016
EUROPEAN MINIATURE COLLECTIONS
09:00 Lucy Davis, London
Famous Women in the Miniatures at the Wallace Collection
09:30 Catherine Hess, San Marino (California)
Up Close and Personal: Portrait Miniatures at The Huntington Art Collections
10:00 Isabel M. Rodríguez-Marco, Madrid
The Collection of Portrait Miniatures and Small Portraits in the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
10:30 Discussion
10:45 Coffee
11:15 Paul Caffrey, Dublin
European Enamels from the National Gallery of Ireland Collection
11:45 Wladyslaw Maximowicz, Bergamo
The Portrait Miniature in Russian Provincial Collections
12:15 Reetta Kuojärvi-Närhi, Helsinki
Small treasures in Finland – Paul Sinebrychoff as a Miniature Collector
12:45 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
MINIATURE PAINTERS
14:15 Halgard Kuhn, Hanover
Peter Boy (c. 1650-1727) – Medallions and Miniatures by the Frankfurt Baroque Goldsmith and Enamel Painter as Integrating Parts in Golden Jewellery
14:45 Karen Hearn, London
The ‘Small Oil Colour Pictures’ of Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661)
15:15 Marco Pupillo, Rome
Francesco Antonio Teriggi, a Miniaturist in the Service of Joseph Bonaparte
15:45 Roger and Carmela Arturi Phillips, Ringwood
The True and Flawed Genius of John Engleheart
16:15 Stephen Lloyd, Liverpool
Copying Portraits in Miniature in Regency England: the Work of William Derby (1786-1847) for the 13th Earl of Derby at Knowsley Hall
16:45 Discussion
17:00 Closing Remarks