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Exhibition Review
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 851–3
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Hearn, Karen (Hearn, Karen)
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Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens National Portrait Gallery, London 20th June–8th September | :
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4. St Mary Magdalene reading, by the Master of the Female Half- Lengths. 1520–30. Oil on panel, 61.5 by 48.2 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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5. Mary I, by the Horenbout family workshop. c.1522. Watercolour on vellum laid down on card, diameter 3.5 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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6. Katherine Parr, attributed to Master John. c.1547. Oil on panel, 92.3 by 71.8 cm. (Private collection, London; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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7. Design for a table fountain with the badge of Anne Boleyn, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1533–34. Pen and black ink over chalk on paper, 17.1 by 10 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 641–644
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Stein, Lisa (Stein, Lisa)
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Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In National Portrait Gallery, London 21st March–16th June | :
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24. Self-portrait at thirteen, by Francesca Woodman. c.1972. Gelatin silver print, 17.1 by 17 cm. (Woodman Family Foundation; DACS, London; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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25. Annie, my first success, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1864. Albumen print, 18 by 14.3 cm. (National Science and Media Museum; Science and Society Picture Library; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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from the series Caryatid, by Francesca Woodman. 1980. Diazotype, 201.9 by 92.1 cm. (Woodman Family Foundation; DACS, London; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Yevonde: Life and Colour
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1140–1143
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Stein, Lisa (Stein, Lisa)
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Yevonde: Life and Colour National Portrait Gallery, London 22nd June–15th October | :
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19. Lord and Lady Derwent (Comtesse Sabine Czaykowska and George Harcourt Vanden-Bampde- Johnstone, 3rd Baron Derwent), by Yevonde. (Mark Evans Picture Library; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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20. Muhammadu Kabir Usman (son of Usman Nagogo) and Ibrahim (son of Yusifu Lamba), grandsons of Muhammadu Dikko, Emir of Katsina, by Yevonde. 1933. Tri-colour separation negative, modern print exhibited. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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21. Self-portrait with Vivex One- Shot Camera, by Yevonde. 1937. Tricolour separation negative, modern print exhibited. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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22. Venus surrounded by mask and deep sea fish, by Yevonde. 1938. Tri-colour separation negative, modern print exhibited. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
The National Portrait Gallery, London
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1013-1017
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Baker, Christopher (Baker, Christopher)
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The National Portrait Gallery, London From 22nd June | :
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14. The new forecourt and entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, London, 2023. (Photograph Olivier Hess).
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15. Room 1 of the National Portrait Gallery, London, showing Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, by Meynart Weywyck (c.1510). (Photograph Gareth Gardner).
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16. Room 18 of the National Portrait Gallery, London, showing the newly acquired Portrait of Mai (Omai) by Joshua Reynolds (c.1776) as the centrepiece of a group of eighteenthcentury portraits. (Photograph Dave Parry).
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17. John in Paris, January 1964, by Paul McCartney. 1964. (© Paul McCartney; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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18. Lord Byron’s Decoupage Screen, by Henry Charles William Angelo and probably John Jackson. c.1814. Cut-out prints, oil paint and varnish on paper-covered panels, 183 by 170 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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George Scharf and the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 288-299
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Cottrell, Philip (Cottrell, Philip)
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1. George Scharf, by William Edward Kilburn. c.1847. Daguerreotype, 78 by 59 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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10. Sketch of Juno and Argus, by Peter Paul Rubens, by George Scharf. 8th September 1857. Pencil on paper, approx. 16 by 10 cm. (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scharf Sketchbook 45, fol.116).
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11. Sketch of Agony in the garden, by Giovanni Bellini, at the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, by George Scharf. 15th September 1857. Pencil on paper, approx. 16 by 10 cm. (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scharf Sketchbook 47, fol.17r).
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12. Sketch of Agony in the garden, by Andrea Mantegna, at the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, by George Scharf. 6th September 1857. Pencil on paper, approx. 8 by 10 cm. (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scharf Sketchbook 47, detail of fol.2r).
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13. The terminating right-hand portion of the south wall of Saloon A of the Gallery of Ancient Masters at the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857. (Digital reconstruction by the author).
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14. Sketch of the terminating right-hand portion of the south wall of Saloon A of the Gallery of Ancient Masters at the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, by George Scharf. 12th October 1857. Pencil on paper (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scharf Sketchbook 49, fol.51r).
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15. Sketch of part of the British Portrait Gallery (the north wall backing onto Saloon D), at the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, by George Scharf. 12th October 1857. Pencil on paper, approx. 16 by 10 cm. (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scharf Sketchbook 49, fol.26r).
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16. The Gallery of Ancient Masters at the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition, attributed to Roger Fenton, with identifiable works digitally enhanced. 1857. Albumen silver print, 18.6 by 24.4 cm. The view shows the view east from Saloon A.
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17. Plan of the Art Treasures Palace, from Catalogue of the Art Treasures of United Kingdom: Collected at Manchester in 1857, definitive edn, London 1857.
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18. The east wall of Saloon C of the Gallery of Ancient Masters at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857. (Digital reconstruction by the author).
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2. Sketch of Michelangelo’s ‘Manchester Madonna’ at the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, by George Scharf. 6th September 1857. Pencil on paper, approx. 16 by 10 cm. (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London; Scharf Sketchbook 47, fol.1r).
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3. Interior of the Art Treasures’ Palace, by the Leighton Brothers. 1857. Chromolithograph, 44.8 by 32.5 cm (From The Art Treasures Examiner).
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4. Paintings in the collection at Warwick Castle, by George Scharf. 20th October 1856. Pencil and pen on paper, approx. 32 by 20 cm. Among the items represented are: (upper left) Head of a cow, by Nicholas Berchem; (lower left) The schoolboy, by Joshua Reynolds; (middle right) Margareta de Vos, by Anthony van Dyck; and (far right) The standard bearer, by Rembrandt. (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scharf Sketchbook 43, fols.128–29).
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5. The standard bearer, by Rembrandt. 1654. Canvas, 140.3 by 114.9 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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6. Family group, by Pieter Codde. 1642. Canvas, 53 by 74.7 cm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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7. Paintings in the Galton Collection, Hadzor Hall, near Droitwich, by George Scharf. 16th February 1857. Pencil and pen on paper, approx. 32 by 20 cm. Among the items represented are: (extreme left) Woman with a guitar, by Jan Mytens, and Man in a broad-brimmed hat, by Willem Drost; (middle left) Conversation piece with a portrait of the artist, by Francis Hayman; (centre left and still-life detail on adjacent page) Family group, by Pieter Codde; and (centre right) The flight into Egypt, by circle of Peter Paul Rubens. (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scharf Sketchbook 46, fols.5–6).
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8. Sketch of an antique bust of Niobe in the Yarborough Collection, by George Scharf. 31st December 1856. Pencil on paper, approx. 16 by 10 cm. (Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scharf Sketchbook 44, fol.106).
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9. Juno and Argus, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1610. Canvas, 249 by 296 cm. (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne).
Editorial
The National Portrait Gallery
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 3
Exhibition Review
Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 414-416
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Hearn, Karen (Hearn, Karen)
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5. Francis Bacon, later Baron Verulam and Viscount St Alban, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Watercolour and bodycolour with gold on vellum, laid on card, 6 by 4.7 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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6. Unknown woman with a jewelled hat, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1585. Watercolour and bodycolour with gold and silver on vellum, laid on a playing card with four diamonds visible on the reverse, 5.4 by 4.2 cm. (Portland Collection; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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7. Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, by Isaac Oliver. c.1596. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, laid on card, 6.5 by 5.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Article
‘The Order of the Garter’: an unpublished drawing by Simeon Solomon
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 227-229
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Marsh, Jan (Marsh, Jan)
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10. John Everett Millais, by Herbert Watkins. 1857. Albumen print, 20.3 by 15.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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11. The Order of the Garter, by Simeon Solomon. 1857. Pencil on paper, 16.9 by 21.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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9. Anthony Trollope, by and after Herbert Watkins. Late 1850s or early 1860s. Albumen print, 8.8 by 5.6 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Editorial
Hilliard in Europe
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 99
Exhibition Review
Gainsborough’s Family Album. National Portrait Gallery, London; Early Gainsborough: ‘From the Obscurity of a Country Town’. Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 146-148
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Shawe-Taylor, Desmond (Shawe-Taylor, Desmond)
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10. Mary and Margaret Gainsborough, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1763–64. Canvas, 127.3 by 101.7 cm. (Worcester Art Museum; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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8. Margaret Gainsborough, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1777. Canvas, 76.6 by 63.8 cm. (Samuel Courtauld Trust; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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9. Gainsborough Dupont, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1773. Canvas, 51.6 by 38.8 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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