Past Events

18 January to 8 March 2013

Spring 2013: Research Lunches

Research Lunch – Jonny Yarker

Paul Mellon Centre

21 June 2013

Pocket-book imagery in the paper collections of Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818)

Research Lunch – Arlene Leis

Paul Mellon Centre

11 October 2013

Redressing William Etty (1787-1849)

Research Lunch – Beatrice Bertram

Paul Mellon Centre

1 November 2013

Quacks, Peddlars and Pastellists: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) in London

Research Lunch – Francesca Whitlum-Cooper

Paul Mellon Centre

24 January to 14 March 2014

Spring 2014: Research Lunches

Research Lunch

Paul Mellon Centre

7 March 2014

James Hakewill and the Politics of Slavery

Research Lunch – Sarah Thomas

Paul Mellon Centre

14 March 2014

Art World Dissidents and their Alternative Identities: Art & Language, Bob and Roberta Smith, Spartacus Chetwynd and Lucky PDF

Research Lunch – Nicola McCartney

Paul Mellon Centre

1 May to 11 July 2014

Summer 2014 Research Lunches

Research Lunch

Paul Mellon Centre

3 October 2014

Copying Gainsborough: Paul Sandby and the refashioning of his artistic identity

Research Lunch – Rosie Razzall

Paul Mellon Centre

17 October 2014

Dialectics of Liberation: Kinetic Theatre and Strategies of Resistance

Research Lunch – Sylvie Simonds

Paul Mellon Centre

14 November 2014

‘To Illustrate the Beautiful and Noble’: The Drawings of George Frederic Watts

Research Lunch – Chloe Kroeter

Paul Mellon Centre

28 November 2014

Nicholas Hawksmoor, Oxford, and Eighteenth-Century Europe

Research Lunch – Eleonora Pistis

Paul Mellon Centre

13 November 2015

Heads and Hands: Josiah Wedgwood's Jasper Portrait Medallions

Research Lunch – Brigid von Preussen

Paul Mellon Centre

20 November 2015

Statements of artistic identity in Vanessa Bell’s self-portraits

Research Lunch – Hana Leaper

Paul Mellon Centre

27 November 2015

The Scougall Family, Scottish Portraiture of the Restoration Period

Research Lunch – Carla van de Puttelaar

Paul Mellon Centre

15 January 2016

Cross Paths and Currents: Cubist and Constructive work in wartime St Ives

Research Lunch – Rachel Rose Smith

Paul Mellon Centre

5 February 2016

Primitive forms and prospects: geological landscapes in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain

Research Lunch – Allison Ksiazkiewicz

Paul Mellon Centre

19 February 2016

Peaks and Pencils: Victorian Illustrations and Paintings of the Dolomite Mountains

Research Lunch – William Bainbridge

Paul Mellon Centre

26 February 2016

Screening and discussion of ‘Trewyn Studio’, a new film on Barbara Hepworth’s studio-museum

Research Lunch – Helena Bonett, Jonathan Law

Paul Mellon Centre

11 March 2016

With dots and rays: Autochrome photography and artistic expression in Britain

Research Lunch – Caroline Fuchs

Paul Mellon Centre

20 May 2016

Ambitious Architecture: Rethinking the meanings of Blenheim Palace

Research Lunch – James Legard

Paul Mellon Centre

27 May 2016

Inquisitive Eyes: Recovering a Lost Chapter in British Art

Research Lunch – Gwen Yarker

Paul Mellon Centre

10 June 2016

Philip Alexius de László: A Catalogue Raisonné in Progress

Research Lunch – Katherine Field

Paul Mellon Centre

24 June 2016

Collecting watercolours: questions of landscape and Englishness, c. 1890-1914

Research Lunch – Jessica Feather

Paul Mellon Centre

14 October 2016

"Curiously Engraven from the Life": Animating the Body in Late Seventeenth-Century London

Research Lunch – Sophie Morris

Paul Mellon Centre

21 October 2016

Breaking down the South London Art Group's A Woman's Place (1974)

Research Lunch – Amy Tobin

Paul Mellon Centre

11 November 2016

Private View: 'A particularly soft English hardback'

Research Lunch – Lisa Tickner

Paul Mellon Centre

25 November 2016

‘Did Babel e’er rise faster?’: the changing image of Brighton, 1820–50

Research Lunch – Amy Concannon

Paul Mellon Centre

9 December 2016

Promoting Pastel: exhibitions of the pastel medium in late nineteenth century Britain

Research Lunch – Freya Spoor

Paul Mellon Centre

25 January 2017

The Work of Artists

Research Lunch – Thomas Crow, Helena Bonett, Vid Simoniti, Alexander Massouras, Elena Crippa

Paul Mellon Centre

17 February 2017

The Great British Gatehouse: Ready, Get Set, Build!

Research Lunch – Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

Paul Mellon Centre

10 March 2017

Concealment & Deception: The Art of the Camoufleurs of Leamington Spa, 1939-1945

Research Lunch – Chloe Johnson, Jeff Watkin

Paul Mellon Centre

17 March 2017

Italy revisited – Nino Costa (1826-1903) and the Etruscan School of Art

Research Lunch – Arnika Groenewald-Schmidt

Paul Mellon Centre

31 March 2017

Samuel Wale's book illustrations: Designing Historical Panoramas in Georgian London

Research Lunch – Isabelle Baudino

Paul Mellon Centre

12 May 2017

‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’: Art at Court in the Aftermath of the Barons’ War, 1258-1266

Research Lunch – Laura Slater

Paul Mellon Centre

26 May 2017

Iconography on the Edge/s: constructing space and the sacred in Anglo-Saxon England

Research Lunch – Meg Boulton

Paul Mellon Centre

2 June 2017

'An intense consciousness of the present': Ruskin, Pater and the drawing of modern life

Research Lunch – Thomas Hughes

Paul Mellon Centre

16 June 2017

Catholic emancipation, Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) and the Catholic Association in print: Satirical Printmaking in Dublin in the late 1820s

Research Lunch – Carly Hegenbarth

Paul Mellon Centre

23 June 2017

Talks by Greg Salter and Sophie Hatchwell

Research Lunch – Gregory Salter, Sophie Hatchwell

Paul Mellon Centre

13 October 2017

Forming a Community: Siegfried Charoux’s Maquette for The Neighbours (1957–59)

Research Lunch – Melanie Veasey

Paul Mellon Centre

17 November 2017

Frederick Walker and the Idyllists – Unsung Masters of Victorian Art

Research Lunch

24 November 2017

'Your Beautiful and Hopeful Family’: Dynasty, Duff House And the House of Duff

Research Lunch – Helen Whiting

Paul Mellon Centre

8 December 2017

‘The Last Sad Testimony of Affection’: Portraiture as Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Research Lunch – Emily Knight

Paul Mellon Centre

19 January 2018

Re-assessing ‘liveliness’ in Post-Reformation English visual culture

Research Lunch – Christina J Faraday

Paul Mellon Centre

1 February 2018

The Commonwealth Institute: Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations

Research Lunch

Paul Mellon Centre

2 February 2018

‘Nor is the figure a mere theatrical portrait’: Exhibiting and Reproducing Theatrical Portraits in London, 1830 – 1860

Research Lunch – Tessa Kilgarriff

16 February 2018

Public Art and its Publics in Post-War Britain

Research Lunch – Robert Sutton

Paul Mellon Centre

2 March 2018

Cruikshank's Alcoholics and The Addict in Austerity

Research Lunch – Susannah Walker

Paul Mellon Centre

11 May 2018

AS in DS: The World of Alison Smithson

Research Lunch – Giulia Smith

18 May 2018

Art History From Below: The Demotic Portraits of a Journeyman Facemaker

Research Lunch – David Hansen

25 May 2018

Perceiving Prints in 18th Print Rooms: Commerce, Play and Display

Research Lunch – Louise Voll Box

8 June 2018

Travellers and Translators: The Returning Indian Turban as East India Company Uniform, c.1760-1810

Research Lunch – Beth Richards

22 June 2018

The Lost Collection: Charles I and Whitehall Palace, A Digital Initiative

Research Lunch – Niko Munz

5 October 2018

Ancient Sculpture & the Narratives of Collecting: (Re)Contextualising the Collection & Display of Classical Art in Britain

Research Lunch – Nicole Cochrane

Paul Mellon Centre

26 October 2018

Neo-classical Display in the Suburbs: Recreating a Lost Adam Garden Temple Built for George Bubb Dodington

Research Lunch – Clare Hornsby, Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

Paul Mellon Centre

2 November 2018

From London to Paris: Defining the British School Through Printmaking

Research Lunch – Alice Ottazzi

16 November 2018

The Central School of Arts and Crafts: An ‘informal nucleus’ of Collaborative Practices in Post-War London

Research Lunch – Rosie Ram

Paul Mellon Centre

11 January 2019

**CANCELLED** The Earl, his heir and their psalter: the patrons and artist of the Ormesby Psalter and East Anglian medieval painting

Research Lunch – Dr Frederica Law Turner

Paul Mellon Centre

25 January 2019

The Duchess of Portland’s Museum-Salon: Bluestocking Collecting, Craft and Conversation, c. 1770-1786

Research Lunch – Madeleine Pelling

Paul Mellon Centre

8 February 2019

Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics Behind William De Morgan’s Designs

Research Lunch – Sarah Hardy

Paul Mellon Centre

22 February 2019

The Magic Hand of Chance: Reframing Modern Textiles in the Interwar Shop

Research Lunch – Lotte Crawford

Paul Mellon Centre

8 March 2019

In Search of the Landscape Artists’ Studio: Database and Map of London 1780-1850

Research Lunch – Rhian Addison

Paul Mellon Centre

3 May 2019

‘Mannered beauty and theatric grace’: Guido Reni and the Royal Academy

Research Lunch – Amy Parrish

Paul Mellon Centre

17 May 2019

The Hearth and the Inferno: LCC Fire Safety Displays at the Ideal Home Exhibition, 1958-63

Research Lunch – Alistair Cartwright

Paul Mellon Centre

31 May 2019

Audio Arts Archive: From Inventory Space to Imagined Space

Research Lunch – Lucia Farinati

Paul Mellon Centre

14 June 2019

Between art and science: British and Chinese 'hybrid' botanic art in 18th century Canton

Research Lunch – Josepha Richard

Paul Mellon Centre