Portraiture: Exchanges, debates and performances, 1700-1840

Speakers

Anna Bonewitz

Elizabeth Eger

Kamilla Elliott

Joanna de Groot

Cora Kaplan

Jon Mee

Eric Miller

Emma Major

Lucy Pelz

Kate Retford

This day conference opens up discussion about portraiture in all its forms. Lucy Peltz will discuss portraiture in extra-illustration and its role in the selling of history. Kate Retford and Jon Mee debate portraiture and conversation pieces. Kamilla Elliott looks at the downward mobility of portraiture in Britain in the 1790s. Eric Miller and Anna Bonewitz bring a transatlantic dimension to the day with their papers on Elizabeth Simcoe in Upper Canada and John Singleton Copley in Boston, while Joanna De Groot turns her attention to imperialism and portraiture in India. Elizabeth Eger talks about Allan Ramsay and Enlightenment portraiture. Emma Major talks about the cross-dressing actress Madam Vestris and her celebrated legs. Cora Kaplan thinks about the representation of female authorship in the early nineteenth century. Please join us for a visual and intellectual feast on 28 June.