An exquisite oil on copper miniature depicting a noblewoman in gold-embroidered finery against a blue background is currently on display at Strawberry Hill House. Previously attributed to Bronzino, recent analysis has indicated that it may have been made in the final decades of the 1500s by Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614), the Bolognese painter widely considered Europe’s […]
We are very pleased to share a new film produced by one of our 2024 Fellows, Kate Haselden, which illustrates her research into one of the only examples of a portrait depicting an individual Black person within National Museums Liverpool’s collection: William Lindsay Windus’ The Black Boy (1844). In her project, Kate examined this striking portrait of an unnamed […]
Fruit of Friendship: Portraits by Mary Beale opened at Philip Mould & Company in London on Thursday 25 April 2024. Mary Beale (1633-1699) was one of Britain’s first professional woman artists. This exhibition will feature twenty-five of her works from public and private collections. The exhibition will span her entire career and include self-portraits, portraits of […]
Making Modernism is the first major UK exhibition devoted to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin. Celebrated in their native homelands, this exhibition will introduce their innovative paintings and works on paper, alongside key pictures by Erma Bossi, Ottilie Reylaender and Jacoba van […]
Rebel Rebel, the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran. Sokhanvari transforms the Curve into a devotional space, populated with exquisite miniature portraits of glamorous cultural figures from Iran. The project spotlights the rarely told histories of these women, who pursued creative careers in a […]
Currently covering the walls of London’s underground, bus shelters and highstreets, Portrait of Britain is a “celebration of identity; an opportunity to rejoice in the diversity of a changing nation”. The British Journal of Photography has announced the winners of Portrait of Britain Vol.5, an annual photography competition which is open to applications to all amateur photographers. With support […]
Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT’ is now open at Autograph, London. Open until the 23rd March 2023, the exhibition explores how colonial histories are imprinted into the landscape through naming and acts of remembrance – asking what actions it might take to repair the inherited traumas of history. Bringing together over a […]
In 1768 Thomas Gainsborough painted the portrait of Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780), who was then valet to the Duke of Montagu. The portrait of Sancho is a rare depiction of a black man in eighteenth-century Europe shown not as an enslaved person, servant or caricature, but as a gentleman. After Sancho’s death, the portrait […]
New Contemporaries returns to the South London Gallery for the fifth consecutive year with Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022. This year’s exhibition features 47 of the UK’s most exciting artists emerging from art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes. The 2022 cohort were selected by internationally renowned artists James Richards, Veronica Ryan and Zadie Xa from […]
Inspired by Compton Verney Gallery’s striking portrait of Sir Thomas Knyvett (c.1569), ‘Tudor Mystery: A Master Painter Revealed’ is the world’s first exhibition devoted to an important, talented – but almost completely forgotten – painter at the court of Elizabeth I. Although the artist’s name has been lost, his recognisable approach to capturing a […]
