24th May
Research Lunch
Jocelyn Anderson 'Ornaments and Honours: Country Houses as Cultural Treasures in the Eighteenth Century

29th May
Research Seminar
Christiane Hille 'Highly endowed in both Body and Mind': George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court'

7th June
Research Lunch
Amy Shulman 
(University of Birmingham)
'Picture Post and the Photo Essay: Émigré Photographers and Cultural Narratives in Britain, 1938-1945'


Recent Publications

  • Citizen Portrait, Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales
  • Lucie Rie, Modernist Potter
  • Sterling and Gowan, Architecture from Austerity to Affluence
  • Under the Banyan Tree
  • William Burton Conyngham and His Irish Circle of Antiquarian Artists



Forthcoming Events

Research Programme - Spring / Summer 2013

William Woollett, after Richard Wilson, Snowden Hill, 1775 Credit Line : Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Research seminars

A series of five research seminars will be given by distinguished historians of British art and architecture during May and June. These research seminars, which will take place on Wednesday evenings, are intended to showcase original and stimulating research in all areas of British art and architectural history. They will take the form of hour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and are geared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-trade professionals and research students working on the history of British art. 

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Research lunches

The spring/summer programme of events will also include a series of five research lunches, geared to doctoral students and junior scholars working on the history of British art and architecture. These research lunches, which will take place on alternate Fridays, are intended to be informal events in which individual doctoral students and scholars will talk for half-an-hour about their projects, and engage in discussion with their peers. A sandwich lunch will be provided by the Centre on these occasions. We hope that the series will help foster a sense of community amongst PhD students and junior colleagues working in the field, and bring researchers from a wide range of institutions together in a collegial and friendly atmosphere. 

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