A temporary export bar has been placed on Rebecca Solomon’s portrait of Fanny Eaton. Solomon was a pioneering Jewish painter who campaigned for women artists. In ‘A Young Teacher’ Fanny Eaton, whose mother was a former enslaved woman in Jamaica, poses as an Indian nursemaid. The piece provides a nuanced and sensitive perspective […]
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 […]
As part of The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s Disability: Past and Present project, a new exhibition: ‘The Health of the Munition Worker: A Disability History of the World Wars on the Solway Military Coast’, will be on show from 1st November 2022 – 31st March 2023. […]
As Curator at The Devil’s Porridge Museum, my research primarily focuses on social history and how people lived and worked during the First World War. I’ve followed the UBP network for some time, and particularly enjoyed 2022’s Annual Seminar which helped me to reflect on some of my own work. But […]
Discovery. Reinterpretation. Re-appraisal. Representation of identities. These are only a few of the themes I noted from the Understanding British Portraits Network Annual Seminar on Tuesday 25 October 2022. I was keen to learn new techniques to study portraits, to set alongside, for example, the concepts of fashioning and self-fashioning of […]
The position of ‘Researcher/Coordinator – Subject Specialist Network: Understanding British Portraiture’ is now open for applications. The candidate will be employed by the National Portrait Gallery and will report to the Head of National Programmes and the Understanding British Portraits Steering Group. The Researcher/Coordinator will provide research and coordination […]
The winners of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize were announced at Cromwell Place on the 25th of October 2022. Clémentine Schneidermann took first place for the series Laundry Day which depict the artist’s neighbour hanging laundry in the garden of her home in South Wales. Taken during another […]
