This panel discussed the joys and challenges of collecting, curating, preserving and researching the Victorians.
Listen to a recording of the event here:Agenda:
Introductions and welcome from Dr Carolyn Burdett and Dr Heather Tilley
Dr Jan Marsh and Elizabeth Heath from the National Portrait Gallery talk about ‘The Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue: mapping visual biographies across the nineteenth-century art world’
Katty Pearce, Assistant Curator at the Guildhall Art Gallery, gives us a taste of Albert Moore’s Pomegranates.
‘Who was Emma Riches?’ Caroline Smith from Bethlem Museum of the Mind finds out.
Ruth Macdonald from The Salvation Army Heritage Centre talks about ‘The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon’.
We currently run MA internships with Guildhall Art Gallery and the Salvation Army Heritage Centre, and Katty Pearce is a recent graduate of the programme.
This event took place as part of Arts Week 2016. For further details, please visit the Birkbeck School of Arts website.
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Can you let me know what time Jan Marsh and Elizabeth Heath are speaking.
I might it difficult to get to this meeting at 6pm and particularly wanted to hear them.
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Their presentation is first on the agenda I’m afraid; I expect they will begin around 6.15pm. I do hope you will be able to attend what promises to be a very interesting event.