Trade, Globalization, and Dutch
Art and Architecture: Interrogating
Dutchness and the Golden Age
By Marsely L. Kehoe. 244 pp. incl. 8 col. + 67
b. & w. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, 2023),
€124. ISBN 978–94–6372–363–3. |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Still life with a turkey pie, by Pieter
Claesz. 1627. Oil on panel, 76.5 by 135 cm.
(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Black Atlantic: Power, People,
Resistance
Edited by Victoria Avery and Jake Subryan
Richards. 192 pp. incl. numerous col. ills.
(Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2023),
£20. ISBN 978–1–7813–0123–4. |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Portrait of
a man in a red
suit. c.1740–80.
Oil on canvas,
61.8 by 51.5 cm.
(Royal Albert
Memorial
Museum & Art
Gallery, Exeter
City Council).
Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now:
Art, Colonialism and Change
Royal Academy of Arts, London
3rd February–28th April 2024 |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. George,
Prince of Wales,
later King
George IV (1762–
1830), by Joshua
Reynolds. c.1787.
Oil on canvas,
234 by 147 cm.
(Collection of
the Duke of
Norfolk, Arundel
Castle; exh. Royal
Academy of Arts,
London).
Attributed works:
24. Whale
falls, by Ellen
Gallagher. 2017.
Oil, acrylic,
ink and paper
on canvas,
188 by 202
cm. (Courtesy
the artist and
Hauser and
Wirth; Ekard
Collection; exh.
Royal Academy
of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
25. Naming
the money,
by Lubaina
Himid. 2004.
Mixed-media
installation
with sound,
dimensions
variable.
(Courtesy the
artist and
Hollybush
Gardens, London;
International
Slavery Museum,
National
Museums
Liverpool;
photograph
Stuart Whipps;
exh. Royal
Academy of
Arts, London).
Book Review
Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez
Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic
Painter in the Age of Velázquez
Edited by David Pullins and Vanessa
K. Valdés. 176 pp. incl. 89 col. ills. (Yale
University Press, 2023), £40. ISBN
978–1–58839–756–0. |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Juan de
Pareja, by Diego
Velázquez. 1650.
Oil on canvas,
81.3 by 69.9 cm.
(Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
Attributed works:
8. Calling of
St Matthew,
by Juan de
Pareja. 1661.
Oil on canvas,
225 by 325 cm.
(Museo Nacional
del Prado,
Madrid; exh.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
Book Review
Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Balthazar: A Black African King
in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Edited by Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene. 152
pp. incl. 121 col. ills. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
Angeles, 2023), £35. ISBN 978–1–60606–785–7. |
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Book Review
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France. By Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss
Murillo: Persuasion and Aura
By Benito Navarrete Prieto. 348 pp. incl. 272 col.
+ 14 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, London, 2021),
£149. ISBN 978–1–912554–40–9. |
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Exhibition Review
Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
26. Installation
view of A front
room in 1976,
curated by the
playwright Michael
McMillan, at the
Museum of the
Home, London,
2021 (photograph
Em Fitzgerald).
Attributed works:
24. All I want
is a room
somewhere,
by Jonathan
Donovan. 2016.
Digital print,
118.9 by 84.1
cm. (Museum
of the Home,
London).
Attributed works:
25. Installation
view of Museum
of the Home,
London, showing
a parlour in 1745
with evidence
of cleaning
(photograph Em
Fitzgerald).
Slavery: Ten True Stories
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
19th May–29th August |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Branding iron
with the letters
‘GWC’. Steel, 3.7
by 2.2 cm. (De
Nederlandsche
Bank, National
Numismatic
Collection,
Amsterdam; exh.
Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
19. Map of
Suriname, by
Alexander de
Lavaux. 1737.
Silk, 186.5
by 215.5 cm.
(Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
20. Detail of
Fig.19, showing
Maroons being
forced from their
settlements.
Attributed works:
21. Installation
view of Slavery:
Ten True
Stories at the
Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam, 2021,
showing Blue
beads from Sint
Eustatius. 18th–
19th century.
Glass, various
dimensions.
(Private
collection).
Turner’s Modern World
Tate Britain, London
28th October 2020–
12th September 2021 |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Slave ship
(slavers throwing
overboard the
dead and dying –
typhoon coming
on), by J.M.W.
Turner. 1840.
Oil on canvas,
90.8 by 122.6 cm.
(Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston).
Attributed works:
8. Northampton
Election, 6th
December 1830,
by J.M.W. Turner.
c.1830–31.
Watercolour,
gouache and ink
on paper, 292 by
438 cm. (Tate,
London).
Attributed works:
9. The Thames
above Waterloo
Bridge, by J.M.W.
Turner. c.1835–
40. Oil on canvas,
90.5 by 121 cm.
(Tate, London).