Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery, London, June 21 – 22, 2013
CONFERENCE:
LONDON AND THE EMERGENCE OF A EUROPEAN ART MARKET (c.1780-1820)
Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June 2013
10am-5.30pm, Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery, London
Organised by the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and the
National Gallery, London
The French Revolution and the ensuing Napoleonic Wars instigated a
sweeping redistribution of art throughout Europe. Large volumes of valuable objects – often entire collections, from monasteries, churches, and palaces – were widely dispersed via auction and private treaty sales. Networks of
agents provided the infrastructure for the circulation of art works and sales information across borders, which promoted a flourishing
international art market.
This two-day conference seeks to examine the role of London in this developing market by shedding new light on the mechanisms of the art trade that connected major European centres around 1800. Scholars from a range of disciplines and countries will discuss broad research questions such as:
· Did the long-term effects of the political turmoil in France
alter the existing networks of dealers and connoisseurs?
· What would have been the motivations to ship art works to
distant cities?
· How sophisticated was the auction catalogue as economic tool
and literary genre in various countries?
· And is it really possible to talk about a European art market
or were there still relatively independent local markets?
Conference
Friday 21 2013
10am-5.30pm, Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery, London
LONDON AND THE EMERGENCE OF A EUROPEAN ART MARKET (c.1780-1820)
Programme: Day 1
10.00 Registration
10.30 Welcome and introduction Nicholas Penny, Director, The National
Gallery, London
10.35 What’s in the data? Visualizing the Getty Provenance Index® Christian Huemer, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and Maximilian Schich, University of Texas, Dallas
Session 1: Collections
Moderator: Adriana Turpin, Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts /
University of Warwick
11.00 Collecting patterns for London: from private museums to
commercial art galleries
Camilla Murgia, Université de Neuchâtel
11.25 Break with refreshments
11.45 Angelica Kauffman: the acquisition and dispersal of an artist’s
collection, 1782-1825
Wendy Wassyng Roworth, University of Rhode Island
12.10 A surprising art auction: the George Watson-Taylor sale in 1823
Elodie Goëssant, Université Paris-Sorbonne IV
12.35 Discussion
13.00 End of Session 1 and lunch break (lunch is not provided)
Session 2: Agents
Moderator: Gail Feigenbaum, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
14.00 From jack-of-all-trades to professional: the development of the
early modern picture dealer in 18th-century London
Julia Armstrong-Totten, Independent Scholar, Los Angeles
14.25 The Trumbull Sale of 1797: players of art market between Paris
and London under the French Revolution
Sarah Bakkali, Université Paris X Nanterre
14.50 Pierre-Joseph Lafontaine (1758-1835) and the formation of
European private collections
Carole Blumenfeld, Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-arts d’Ajaccio
15.15 Break with refreshments
15.45 Thomas Hope and Gioacchino Marini: Roman agent ‘de’ signori
inglesi’
Maria Celeste Cola, Sapienza Università di Roma
16.10 Spanish art dealers in the United Kingdom
Ana Maria García Fernández, Universidad de Oviedo
16.35 Discussion
17.30 End of Session 2 and close
Conference
Saturday 22 June 2013
10am-5.30pm, Sainsbury Wing Theatre
LONDON AND THE EMERGENCE OF A EUROPEAN ART MARKET (c.1780-1820)
Programme: Day 2
10.00 Registration
10.30 Welcome and introduction
Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Session 3: Information
Moderator: Hans Van Miegroet, Duke University
10.35 William Buchanan’s Memoirs of Painting (1824) and his
observations on the art trade during the Napoleonic period
David Ekserdjian, University of Leicester
11.00 British buying patterns at auction sales, 1780-1800: did the
influx of European art have an impact on the British public’s
preferences?
Bénédicte Miyamoto, Université Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle
11.25 Break with refreshments
11.45 ‘Noising things abroad’: sales catalogues and the construction of
value in the early 19th-century art market
Steven Adams, University of Hertfordshire
12.10 Marketing and selling the collection of Welbore Ellis Agar in 1806
Rebecca Lyons, Christie’s Education, London / University of Glasgow
12.35 Discussion
13.00 End of Session 3 and lunch break (lunch is not provided)
Session 4: Artworks
Moderator: Susanna Avery-Quash, The National Gallery, London
14.00 International art dealer networks and triangular arbitrage
between Paris, Amsterdam and London
Hans Van Miegroet, Duke University, and Dries Lyna, Radboud University,
Nijmegen
14.25 Italian exports of works of art to the United Kingdom
Guido Guerzoni, Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan
14.50 The Getty Provenance Index® under examination: the taste for
17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting in London (1780-1820)
Peter Carpreau, M – Museum Leuven
15.15 Break with refreshments
15.45 London around 1800: an international art trade or a globalised
art market?
Olivier Bonfait, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
16.10 Discussion
16.30 Roundtable panel discussion
Moderator: Nicholas Penny, The National Gallery, London
Participants: Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Guido Guerzoni, Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan
Patrick Michel, Université Lille 3
Michael North, Universität Greifswald
17.30 End of Session 4 and close
TICKETS & BOOKING
Buy tickets for both days
: £65/£40 concessions (£20 students with valid student ID);
Buy tickets for on
e day: £40/£30 concessions (£10 students with valid student ID)
For further information about the programme and to make a booking, go
to:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/conference-21-22-june-2013
Please note that there will be refreshment breaks, however lunch is not
provided for delegates.
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