Portrait Events in this year’s Art History Festival

Elizabeth I (the 'Armada Portrait'), circa 1588. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Acquired with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Art Fund, Linbury Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, Headley Trust and other major donors, together with contributions from over 8000 members of the public following a joint appeal with Art Fund.

Elizabeth I (the 'Armada Portrait'), circa 1588. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Acquired with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Art Fund, Linbury Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, Headley Trust and other major donors, together with contributions from over 8000 members of the public following a joint appeal with Art Fund.

An exciting series of portrait-related events feature in this year’s Art History Festival, which is organised by our friends and collaborators at the Association for Art History.

Highlights include:

Writing a New Story of Tudor Art
1 October 2026 | 17.00-18.00
Society of Antiquaries, London

Portraying Lancaster
5 October 2026 | 10.30-16.30
Lancaster City Museum

Pearls, Sugar, & Tobacco Flowers: English Queens in an Atlantic World
Tuesday 6 October 2026 | 13.00-13.50
Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich

Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour
9 October 2026 | 10.00-17.00
Perth Museum

Stories Behind Portraits in the Victorian Gallery
9 October 2026 | 14.00-15.00
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

‘We Were Here’: The untold history of Black Africans in the Renaissance
9 October 2026 | 18.00-20.00
The National Gallery, London

Posted in Conferences & Events, Portrait News by Bryony Smith on October 1st, 2026.

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