Book Night

Please join us for Book Night at the Paul Mellon Centre, where we will celebrate our latest publications by asking authors to discuss their research and answer questions about their books.

Guests will be able to hear short presentations by each of our authors, which we hope will give a lively and engaging snapshot of the exciting new research that we have recently published.

The evening will finish with a drink's reception.

Running Order

17:30: Welcome

17:40: 10 mins per speaker

18:30: Comfort break

18:45: Questions and author conversation

19:15: Drinks and canapes

20:00: Finish

Authors:

Richard Ormond, author of John Singer Sargent:The Charcoal Portraits. Richard is an independent art historian and the great-nephew of John Singer Sargent.

Lynda Nead, author of British Blonde. Lynda is a professor of history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Her books include The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Postwar Britain (2017), The Haunted Gallery (2008), Victorian Babylon (2000) and The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality (1992).

Elizabeth Goldring, author of Holbein: Renaissance Master. Elizabeth is an honorary reader at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. She is the author of Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (2019) and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art (2014).

Christine Casey (online speaker), author of Architecture and Artifice: The Crafted Surface in Eighteenth-Century Building Practice. Christine is professor of architectural history and fellow at Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and an honorary member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.

Sam Smiles, author of Turner and the Slave Trade. Sam is honorary professor at the University of Exeter, and the author of The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and his Critics (2020).

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