Mondays, 14 January–11 February 2013, 6.30–7.30 pmSainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery, London

The theme of this lecture series is the relationshipbetween British art and the theatre from the eighteenthcentury to the twentieth. William Hogarth (1697–1764)said of his famous ‘progresses’, ‘My picture was my stageand men and women my actors’, a phrase that hasbecome a cliché in the history of British art.

The high point of Hogarth’s career coincided with theemergence of the actor and theatrical impresario DavidGarrick (1717–79), who became one of his closest friends.The last years of Hogarth’s life saw the emergence ofJohan Zoffany (1733–1810), his successor as a painter oftheatrical compositions and protégé of Garrick, who alsoleft an unparalleled record of the contemporary stage.

Less familiar is the fact that Hogarth was reassertingage-old ideas about the interaction between the visualarts and the drama that had recently been re-examinedin academic discussions in France. It was of particularsignificance in the making of ‘histories’, when a sharedlanguage of gesture and expression was deployed andwhen particular rules were held to apply. Actors such as Garrick were explicit about finding inspiration inpainting and sculpture, and the habit was maintained bysuch later giants of the theatre as Henry Irving(1838–1905) and Laurence Olivier (1907–89).

14 January: ‘An unjointed caterpillar’: Richard III onStage, Screen and Canvas

21 January: Making History: ‘history painting’ and thetheatre

28 January: ‘Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood’:shared concepts of expression and gesture

4 February: Performing Artists: actors, artists, and theparadox of performance

11 February: ‘All the original music’: adapting andimmortalising

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NEWSLETTERYale University December 2012 Issue 35

THE PAUL MELLON LECTURES 2013Painters and Players from Hogarth to OlivierRobin SimonHonorary Professor of English, University College London, and Editor, British Art Journal

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William Hogarth, The Beggar’s Opera (detail), 1729.

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THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Research Lunches FRIDAYS, 12.30–2.00 PMThe spring programme of events also features the first ofa regular series of research lunches, geared to doctoralstudents and junior scholars working on the history ofBritish art and architecture. These research lunches,which will normally take place on alternate Fridays, areintended to be informal events in which individualdoctoral students and scholars will talk for half-an-hourabout their projects, and engage in animated discussionwith their peers. A sandwich lunch will be provided bythe Centre on these occasions. We hope that this serieswill help foster a sense of community amongst PhDstudents and junior colleagues working in the field, andthat it will bring researchers from a wide range ofinstitutions together in a collegial and friendlyatmosphere.

18th January Jonny Yarker (University of Cambridge) Learning theBusiness of Painting in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain:the example of Hamlet Winstanley

1st February Esther Chadwick (Yale University) Experiments inLiberty: Barry’s Phoenix of 1776

15th February Cicely Robinson (University of York) ReadingReconstructions: The National Gallery of Naval Art c.1839

1st March Emily Mann (Courtauld Institute of Art) Empire Builder:Christian Lilly in the Atlantic World 1688-1738

8th March Carly Collier (University of Warwick) RediscoveringFresco Painting in Nineteenth-Century Britain.

NEW RESEARCH PROGRAMMESSPRING 2013

Research Seminars WEDNESDAYS, 5.30–8.00 PMThe spring of 2013 will see the launch of an exciting newprogramme of research events at the Centre. Thisincludes the first of a regular series of five fortnightlyresearch seminars, which will be given by distinguishedhistorians of British art and architecture. These researchseminars, which will take place on Wednesday evenings,are intended to showcase original and stimulatingresearch in all areas of British art and architecturalhistory. They will take the form of hour-long talks,followed by questions and drinks, and are geared toscholars, curators, conservators, art-trade professionalsand research students working on the history of Britishart. We are pleased to announce that the papers given inthis first series of research seminars will be delivered bymembers of the PMC’s Advisory Council.

9th January Mark Hallett (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies inBritish Art) Point Counter Point: Sir Joshua Reynolds,Female Portraiture and the Great Room at Somerset House

23rd January Christine Stevenson (Courtauld Institute of Art)Architectural Husbandry: ‘Rough Materialls’ and ToughClients in Eighteenth-Century Britain

6th February Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art) Colour asLure and as Provocation: William Morris’s tapestry, ‘TheWoodpecker’

20th February Michael Hatt (University of Warwick) Edward Carpenterand the Domestic Interior

6th March Paul Binski (University of Cambridge) The Heroic Age ofGothic and the Metaphors of Modernism

In order to help us plan for these events, it is essential that all of those who intend coming to individualresearch seminars and research lunches email the Centre’s Events Administrator, Ella Fleming, at least two daysin advance, on efleming@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk

To receive regularly updated news on future research events to be held at the Centre, please contact Emma Finn onefinn@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk and ask to be placed on our email mailing list.

LibraryThe library collection, already strong in the art of the16th to the mid-20th centuries, is expanding to coverlater 20th- and 21st-century art and artists as well asstretching back in time to include the medieval period.For fuller details of what you can expect to find, go to theLibrary Collections page on our website.

We are delighted to have been chosen to add thelibrary’s holdings’ records to the COPAC union catalogueallowing our book and journal records to be searchedalongside those of 70 other national, academic andspecialist libraries in the UK and Ireland. To accessCOPAC, go to www.copac.ac.uk

PhotographicArchiveCataloguing of the Paul Mellon Centre’s largephotographic archive is almost complete. Readers cansearch the Library catalogue by artist name, to findphotographic archive material of interest. The Librarycatalogue also includes full details of the TatePhotographic Archive, which was acquired in 2008.

Accessing the Collections Visitors are welcome to consult material from all thecollections. The Public Study Room is open from10.00-17.00, Monday to Friday. Please email for anappointment: collections@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. Formore information visit the Accessing the Collections pageon our website. We intend to close the Public StudyRoom for an annual stocktake in future. In 2013 we shallbe closed from 14th-20th March inclusive.

In recent months there have been a number of excitingdevelopments in the Paul Mellon Centre’s library, archiveand photographic archive collections.The Main Library isnow designated a Public Study Room and for the first timereaders can consult material from all three collections in ashared study space. This new integration of resourcesprovides an improved research experience, allowingreaders to examine, explore and compare material from thelibrary, archive and photographic archive at one time, andrevised registration arrangements to support this newservice have been in place since July 2012. The newlyappointed Archives and Library Assistant, who is based inthe Public Study Room, is available to answer queries andhelp readers access the collections.

ArchiveEarlier this year, the Centre launched an online archivecatalogue revealing to a wider audience the researchmaterial compiled by some of the most significant arthistorians of the 20th century. Highlights include thepapers of W.G. Constable (1887-1976) first director of theCourtauld Institute and museum director; and Sir BrinsleyFord (1908-1999) collector, art connoisseur and editor ofthe Burlington Magazine. Six collections out of thetwenty-two held at the Centre have been catalogued andare available online, an important stage of an ongoingproject to make the collections more widely available.

The Centre continues to acquire archive collections, onwhich work continues. In recent months, the papers of theart historians and museum curators Judy Egerton (1928-2012) and Malcolm Baker (b. 1945), and the papers ofhaematologist and descendant of Joshua Reynolds’s sister,John Edgcumbe (1920-2001), were received by donation.All the papers, catalogued or not, are open to the public.

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LIBRARY, ARCHIVE & PHOTOGRAPHICARCHIVE

CURATORIAL RESEARCH GRANTS

British Museum to help support a curator for two yearson the research project Napoleon and the British

Charleston Trust to help support a curator for threeyears on the research project Studies and insights:Bloomsbury art

RBSA Gallery (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists) tohelp support a curator for two years on the researchproject RBSA Bicentenary Exhibition

Royal Collection Trust to help support a curator for threeyears on the research project Revising Oliver Millar’sCatalogues of the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian Pictures in theRoyal Collection

Strawberry Hill Trust to help support a curator for oneyear on the research project The Strawberry Hill Collection

PUBLICATION GRANTS (AUTHOR)

Stephen Barber Muybridge: The Eye in Motion

Anne Bordeleau Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time:Ornaments in the Age of Historicism

Vic Gatrell Covent Garden, First Bohemia: An Art World inEighteenth-Century London

Sigrid de Jong Rediscovering Architecture: Paestum inEighteenth-century Architectural Experience and Theory

Katerina Loukopoulou Henry Moore Unbound: A CulturalHistory of the Sculptor on Film

Heather Meakin The Painted Closet of Lady Anne BaconDrury

John Munns The Cross of Christ and Anglo-NormanReligious Imagination

Amy Sargeant The Boarding House: From ‘The Lodger’ to‘The L-Shaped Room’

Sylvia Shorto British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi

Ana Maria Suarez Huerta News about the Irish sculptorChristopher Hewetson. Will and inventory of artworks

Astrid Swenson The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Pastin France, Germany and England, 1789-1914

William Vaughan ‘Shadows on the Wall’: The Art of SamuelPalmer

Dennis Wardleworth William Reid Dick, Sculptor

Emily Weeks Cultures Crossed: John Frederick Lewis(1804-1876) and the Art of Orientalist Painting

Mo White Slide-tape: Key Work in the UK since the 1960s

James Wilkes A Landscape of Modernity: The Isle ofPurbeck in Art and Literature

Linda Zatlin Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné

PUBLICATION GRANTS (PUBLISHER)

Ashgate Publishing: Heather Meakin, The Painted Closetof Lady Anne Bacon Drury

Ashgate Publishing: Barbara Burman and ArianeFennetaux, Pockets of History: A Social History of anEveryday Object in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Ashgate Publishing: Robert Proctor, Church in Concrete:Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955-1975

Bard Graduate Center, New York: Susan Weber (Ed),William Kent, 1686-1748: Designing Georgian Britain

Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art:Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson, ‘Uproar!’: TheFirst 50 Years of the London Group

English Heritage Publishing: Elizabeth McKeller andJulian Holder, Re-Appraising the Neo-Georgian 1880-1970

Holburne Museum: Amina Wright, Joseph Wright ofDerby: Bath & Beyond

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery: Mungo Campbell(Ed), ‘A rational taste of resemblance’; Allan Ramsay and theportraiture of learning

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd: Judith Collins, EduardoPaolozzi

Manchester University Press: Gill Perry, Kate Retford,Jordan Vibert and Hannah Lyons, Placing Faces: Theportrait and the English country house in the long eighteenthcentury

National Museum Wales: Charlotte Topsfield, DelectableMountains: Rediscovering James Dickson Innes (1887-1914)

Pallant House Gallery: Simon Martin (Ed), British Artistsand the Spanish Civil War: Conflict and Conscience

Paul Holberton Publishing: Sam Smiles (Ed), WestCountry to World’s End: The South West in the Tudor Age

Photographers’ Gallery: Russell Roberts, This is YourPhoto: The Image Worlds of Mass Observation

Public Monuments & Sculpture Association (PMSA):Darcy White, Elizabeth Norman and David Ball, ThePublic Sculpture of Sheffield and South Yorkshire

Spire Books: Michael Hill, East Dorset Country Houses

Twentieth Century Society: Alan Powers and Elain Harwood(Eds), Oxford and Cambridge: 20th-Century Architecture

V & A Publishing, Victoria and Albert Museum: SusanOwens, Drawing in Britain 1600 to the Present Day

Vivid Projects: Mo White (Ed), Slide-tape: Key Work in theUK since the 1960s

Walpole Society: Edward Nygren, James Ward. Paper andPatrons

Fellowship and Grant AwardsAt the October 2012 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded:

THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT AWARDS

Watts Gallery: Mark Bills (Ed), Frank Holl

Wentworth Castle Heritage Trust: Patrick Eyres (Ed),Diplomats, Goldsmiths and Baroque Court Culture: LordRaby in Berlin and at Wentworth Castle, 1701-39

Yale University Press: David W. Walker and MatthewWoodworth, The Buildings of Scotland: NorthAberdeenshire and Moray

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME GRANTS

University of York grant towards a conference, 26-27April 2013: British Visual Culture in Crisis, c.1800-Present

Victoria and Albert Museum grant towards a conference,14-15 June 2013: Emerging Empires; England and Muscovyin the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS

Thomas Ardill for research on Between God, Art and Mammon:Religious Painting as Public Spectacle in Britain, c.1800-50

Louise Carson for research on The visual culture of thesugar banquet in early modern England

Rosemarie Dias for research on The East India Companyand its Images: Production, Patronage, Collecting, 1757-1857

Renate Dohmen for research on The 1883-84 CalcuttaInternational Exhibition, the South Kensington School of Artand Design, and the Politics of World Fairs. A fraughtchallenge to the Imperial Status Quo.

Alice Eden for research on British Art 1880-1920:Representations of Women and Forms of Knowledge

Isobel Hampton for research on Lords of the North?Aristocratic identities in fourteenth century art and architecture

Yat Ming Loo for research on Tracing the Histories ofLondon’s Limehouse Chinatown in China (1860 to 1960)

Stephen McNair for research on Southern Gothic: AntebellumEcclesiology in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi

Christopher Maxwell for research on The Americanbeneficiaries of the Hamilton Palace sales of 1882 and 1919

Daniel Naegele for research on The Letters of Colin Rowe

Anne Nellis Richter for research on Investigation of theSutherland papers at the National Library of Scotland,Edinburgh for a publication: Displaying Art in EarlyNineteenth Century London

Mary O’Neill for research on Paintings and photographs offisherfolk and fishing practices in West Cornwall, 1860-1910

Sheridan Palmer for research on The Intellectual Biographyof Bernard Smith

Aurélie Petiot for research on Geddes, Lethaby and Crane:alternative case studies

Clare Walcot for research on 1720: The South Sea Schemeand the Visual Arts in Britain

David Waterworth for research on London Artists’ StudiosMovement (Stockwell Depot & Greenwich Studios)

Linda Zatlin for research on Always in Haste, AubreyBeardsley: The Letters

BARNS-GRAHAM RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT

Lily Foster for research on Interior Paintings by HaroldGilman and Edouard Vuillard

THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT AWARDS

Staff NewsThe summer and autumn of 2012 saw the arrival of fivenew members of staff at the Centre, and the assumption ofnew positions by a number of existing colleagues.Professor Mark Hallett took over as Director of Studiesin October, while Sarah Ruddick arrived as AssistantDirector for Finance and Administration in September.Nermin Abdulla has been appointed to the position of theCentre’s Yale-in-London representative, Emma Finn has

arrived as a receptionist and events assistant, andZulqarnain Swaleh has taken on the role of IT officer. DrMartin Postle has been promoted to the new position ofDeputy Director of Studies, Ella Fleming has beenpromoted to the position of Director’s Assistant andEvents Administrator, and Maisoon Rehani has beengiven responsibility for picture research and for theadministration of online cataloguing projects.

Spring 2013 Round of Awards. Closing date for applications is 15 January 2013The following fellowships and grants are offered in Spring 2013: Senior Fellowships, Rome Fellowship, PostdoctoralFellowships, Junior Fellowships, Research Support Grants and Educational Programme Grants. Full details andapplication forms are on our website at http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/20

THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Under the Banyan TreeRelocating the Picturesque inBritish IndiaRomita Ray

Under the Banyan Tree is the firstcomprehensive study of the evolutionand flourishing of the picturesqueduring the British Raj. Romita Rayargues that this concept allowedBritish artists and writers travellingin India to aestheticise the Indianlandscape, its people and the biota(the banyan tree and the elephant,above all). These ideas not onlyshaped specific landscapes in India,but also fed the imagination of aglobal audience throughout theBritish empire. The material in thisengaging text ranges from riverlandscapes and tea plantations toelephants and bejewelled Indianprinces, shedding light on how theconcepts of picturesque beauty andpleasure were diversified in India,sometimes dramatically beyond theirconventional parameters. Exquisitelyillustrated with unusual and beautifulimages, Under the Banyan Tree is botha starting point for examining thefunction of the picturesque and aninsightful addition to scholarshipinvestigating British art and empirein the 18th and 19th centuries.

Romita Ray was born and raised inCalcutta. She is an associate professorof art history at Syracuse University,New York.

March 400 pp. 256x192mm. 60 colour + 50 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-18769-4£50.00

In the Olden TimeVictorians and the British PastAndrew Sanders

In this richly textured and wide-ranging survey of Victorian attitudesto the past, Andrew Sanders builds onRoy Strong’s ground-breaking bookAnd when did you last see your father?:The Victorian Painter and BritishHistory (1978). Sanders explores theessentially literary nature ofVictorian history writing, and hereveals the degree to which painterswere indebted to written records bothfictional and factual. Starting with astimulating comparison of QueensElizabeth I and Victoria, In the OldenTime examines works by poets andpainters, essayists and dramatists,architects and musicians, includingJane Austen, John Donne, WilliamShakespeare and John Soane.Together with a study of religioushistory as seen through the eyes ofarchitect and critic Augustus Puginand journalist William Cobbett, thisbook offers an original view ofVictorian responses to British history,presenting a fresh investigation ofunexpected Victorian attitudes andthe establishment of particular20th-century prejudices and bias.

Andrew Sanders is emeritusprofessor, department of English,Durham University.

April 244 pp. 241x191mm. 80 colour + 20 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19042-7£40.00

Imperial GothicReligious Architecture and HighAnglican Culture in the BritishEmpire, 1840–1870G. A. Bremner

The Gothic Revival movement inarchitecture was intimately entwinedwith 18th- and 19th-century Britishcultural politics. By the middle of the19th century, architects and theoristshad transformed the movement into a serious scholarly endeavour,connecting it to notions of proprietyand ‘truth’, particularly in the domain of religious architecture.Simultaneously, reform within theChurch of England had worked towiden the aesthetic and liturgicalappeal of ‘correct’ gothic forms.Coinciding with these developments,both architectural and religious, wasthe continued expansion of Britain’sempire, including a renewed urgencyby the English Church to extend itsmission beyond the British Isles. Inthis groundbreaking new study, G. A.Bremner traces the global reach andinfluence of the Gothic Revivalthroughout Britain’s empire duringthese crucial decades.

G. A. Bremner is senior lecturer inarchitectural history at theUniversity of Edinburgh.

April 384 pp. 280x230mm. 80 colour + 285 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-18703-8£50.00

THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Ham HouseFour Hundred Years of Collectingand PatronageChristopher Rowell

Built in 1610 during the reign of JamesI and remodelled in 1637–9 by thefuture first Earl of Dysart, HamHouse and its gardens have enduredthrough centuries of English historywhile remaining representative of thestyles and culture of the originalinhabitants. It is one of the few placeswhere Caroline décor – as developedby British architect Inigo Jones andfamiliar to Peter Paul Rubens andAnthony van Dyck – can still beappreciated. On the 400th anniversaryof one of the most famous houses inEurope, eighteen internationallyrecognised scholars join NationalTrust curators in documenting thehistory of Ham House and itscollections. The new discoveries,reattributions and revelations of thecontributors are accompanied bycommissioned photography of thehouse and its contents. An appendixincludes complete transcriptions ofhouse inventories for the 17th, 18thand 19th centuries, published here forthe first time.

Christopher Rowell is the NationalTrust’s furniture curator and curatorformerly responsible for Ham House.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centrefor Studies in British Art and theNational Trust

April 400 pp. 279x241mm.250 colour + 100 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-18540-9£75.00

Ireland and the PicturesqueDesign, Landscape Painting, andTourism, 1700–1840Finola O’Kane

That Ireland is picturesque is awell-worn cliché, but little isunderstood of how this perceptionwas created, painted and manipulatedduring the long 18th century. Thisbook positions Ireland at the core ofthe picturesque’s development andargues for a far greater degree ofIrish influence on the course ofEuropean landscape theory anddesign. Positioned off-axis from thegreater force-field, and off-shore from mainland Europe and America,where better to cultivate the obliqueperspective? This book charts thecreation of picturesque Ireland, whileexploring in detail the role and reachof landscape painting in the planning,publishing, landscaping and design ofIreland’s historic landscapes, townsand tourist routes.

Finola O’Kane is Lecturer in theSchool of Architecture, Landscapeand Civil Engineering, UniversityCollege Dublin, and author ofLandscape Design in 18th CenturyIreland: Mixing Foreign Trees with theNatives.

May 288 pp. 279x241mm. 120 colour + 45 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-18538-6 £45.00

William Henry Fox TalbotBeyond PhotographyEdited by Mirjam Brusius, KatrinaDean and Chitra Ramalingam

William Henry Fox Talbot was aBritish pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the widerpreoccupations of the Victorian Age –a time that saw political, social,intellectual, technical and industrialchanges. His manuscripts, now in thearchive of the British Library, revealthe connections and contrastsbetween his photographic innovationsand his investigations into optics,mathematics, botany, archaeology andclassical studies. Drawing on Talbot’sletters, diaries, research notebooks,botanical specimens and photographicprints, distinguished scholars from arange of disciplines broaden ourunderstanding of Talbot as aVictorian intellectual and a man ofscience.

Mirjam Brusius is postdoctoral fellowat the Max Planck Institute for theHistory of Science, HarvardUniversity. Katrina Dean is auniversity archivist at MelbourneUniversity. Chitra Ramalingam ispostdoctoral fellow in the Departmentof History and Philosophy of Scienceat the University of Cambridge.

Studies in British Art Series

June 328 pp. 254x178mm. 100 colour illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-17934-7£50.00