All Members Welcome 5.30 pm, 13th September 2018 at The Art Workers’ Guild Dame Rosalind Savill: Three Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace as collectors of Sèvres porcelain Today in the Wallace Collection the Sèvres porcelain amassed between 1802 and 1875, by four generations of one family, reveals the richness and ingenuity of the pieces … Continue reading The Society for the History of Collecting | AGM & Annual Lecture
The Paston Treasures: Microcosm of the Known World
The exhibition on the painting and collections of the Paston family held in Norwich Castle Museum over the summer, was a long-awaited moment for all those interested in 17th-century collecting or more particularly, in the cabinet of curiosity. The painting of the Paston Treasure was known, but not very well and was full of unresolved … Continue reading The Paston Treasures: Microcosm of the Known World
Conference Report: Paris and Berlin, October 2016
All the Beauty of the World, Berlin, October 13-15, 2016 As the title indicated, this conference gathered together researchers working on many different areas and covering collecting practices from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries. The aim was to explore the different ways markets developed for non-European works of art, how these works … Continue reading Conference Report: Paris and Berlin, October 2016