In 2015 a conference was held at the British Museum to celebrate the re-installment of the Waddesdon Bequest. This has now appeared as a series of essays which reflect the range of the collection and its history from a private collection at Waddesdon Manor to its gift by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild to the museum. As … Continue reading Book review: A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum, ed. Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton, The British Museum, London, 2017.
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Book review: Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art by Darius A. Spieth, Brill, 2018.
The growth of interest in Dutch and Flemish painting in eighteenth-century Paris has been a subject of considerable interest and research by recent scholars such as de Marchi and van Miegroet, Michel, Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens, to mention only a few. What is of exceptional interest in this study by Darius Spieth is the detailed … Continue reading Book review: Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art by Darius A. Spieth, Brill, 2018.
Recent Society visit to Longford Castle, 30 June 2018
On 30 June, SocHistColl visited the unusual hexagonal country seat of Longford Castle, near Salisbury, for a private tour round the house, with time afterwards for a look round the splendid gardens, which looked particularly fine in their summer glory. The visit was organised by Susanna Avery-Quash, who as Senior Research Curator (History of Collecting) … Continue reading Recent Society visit to Longford Castle, 30 June 2018
SocHistColl Americas Curatorial Walk-Through, Tuesday 12 June 2018, New York.
Installation view including Thomas Mulcaire, The Struggle Continue (A Luta Continua), 2003. The Society for the History of Collecting – Americas invites members to a curatorial walk-through with Florence Derieux, Director of Exhibitions, Hauser & Wirth, of “A Luta Continua”: The Sylvio Perlstein Collection To take place at Hauser & Wirth, Chelsea, 548 West 22nd … Continue reading SocHistColl Americas Curatorial Walk-Through, Tuesday 12 June 2018, New York.
Symp: Masterpiece London Symposium, Saturday 30 June 2018
Masterpiece London is delighted to host a morning of lectures and discussion sessions co-organised by the Fair and Dr Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo, to bring together the pre-eminent museum curators of tomorrow with the emerging stars of the art and antiques trade, with the aim of encouraging constructive discussion, networking and the exchange of … Continue reading Symp: Masterpiece London Symposium, Saturday 30 June 2018