John William Waterhouse is amongst the most visible ofartists in today’s popular culture. His painting, The Ladyof Shalott, has consistently sold more postcards for Tatethan any other work of art. Reproductions of his workon posters, prints, and greetings cards are invariablybestsellers, and there are dozens of websites that featurehis art. Yet Waterhouse has been largely ignored in academic art history and museum practice. Although hispaintings won medals at world’s fairs from the 1880sthrough to 1900, his role on the international art scene hasbeen forgotten; scholars have yet to explore his complexengagement with ancient and modern literary traditions,or with the exciting new developments of the laternineteenth and early twentieth centuries in archaeology,anthropology, comparative mythology, occultism andpaganism. Only now is he receiving his first full-scaleretrospective exhibition, at the Groninger Museum inthe Netherlands (14 December 2008–3 May 2009), theRoyal Academy of Arts in London (27 June–13 September 2009), and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts(1 October 2009-7 February 2010).

This conference brings together five scholars fromdifferent disciplines and the four co-curators of theexhibition to consider new perspectives revealed by thisfirst, comprehensive showing of Waterhouse’s work.The conference is organised by the Paul Mellon Centre forStudies in British Art in collaboration with theInstitute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition atthe University of Bristol, with a generous gift from theVice Chancellor, Professor Eric Thomas, and Mrs NarellThomas. It will conclude with an evening reception andprivate view of the exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Full conference fee, including coffee, lunch, tea andreception at the Royal Academy of Arts: £40. Student andSenior Citizen concessions are available at a reduced rate of£20. To register for the conference please check availabilitywith Ella Fleming at the Paul Mellon Centre: Email:events@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk; Tel: 202 7580 0311;Fax: 020 7636 6730 – then send a cheque made payable tothe Paul Mellon Centre to: 16 Bedford Square, London,WC1B 3JA, and include a stamped addressed envelope.

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John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)A conference organised by the Paul Mellon Centre and the Royal Academy of Arts, 2 September 2009

John William Waterhouse, Hylas and the Nymphs (detail), 1896, Manchester City Galleries

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(Curator of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts);William Truettner (Senior Curator, Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum); Professor Dell Upton (University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles); Professor Emeritus William Vaughan(Birkbeck College, University of London). Saturday’s eventwill conclude with a round-table discussion.

A small exhibition of relevant works by Americanartists from the Academy’s collection will be shownconcurrently in the Royal Academy Library Print Room.

Conference fees are £50.00 and £25.00 to students andconcessions. The fee covers a drinks reception at the RoyalAcademy and tea, coffee and a sandwich lunch on theFriday and Saturday. Inquiries and booking requestsshould be directed to the Conference Assistant, Dr.Philippa Kaina, at the Department of History of Art,University College London, Gower Street, London,WC1E 6BT, UK; or by e-mail to: p.kaina@ucl.ac.uk

Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts (Dr. AlisonBracker); the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art(Dr. Martin Postle); and the Department of History of Art,University College London (Professor Andrew Hemingway).Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

The object of this conference is to rethink Romanticismin the American visual arts of the period c.1789–1848within a trans-Atlantic framework. The twelve papers andkeynote lecture will address the issues of Romanticismfrom a number of perspectives.

The conference brings together scholars from bothsides of the Atlantic working on cognate themes, and willprovide the forum for extended discussions rather thansimply presentations of research findings. The event willopen with a keynote lecture by Professor Alan Wallach(College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA) at theRoyal Academy on the evening of Thursday 15 October,which will lay out key themes to be taken up in thesucceeding days.

The conference venue will be the Paul Mellon Centre onFriday 16 October, and University College London(Cruciform Building) on Saturday 17 October. Otherspeakers include Dr Matthew Beaumont (University CollegeLondon); Professor Emeritus David Bindman (UniversityCollege London); Professor Leo Costello (Rice University,Houston); Professor Mark Ford (University CollegeLondon); Professor Paul Giles (University of Oxford);Professor Andrew Hemingway (University CollegeLondon); Dr Wendy Ikemoto (Courtauld Institute of Art);Dr Sarah Monks (University of York); Dr Kenneth Myers

Benjamin West, Death on a Pale Horse, 1783–1803, Royal Academy of Arts. London

Trans-Atlantic RomanticismAn International Conference15–17 October 2009

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Ronald Hutton (History Dept., University of Bristol)Languages of Paganism in Victorian Britain

Christina Bradstreet (Birkbeck College)Wicked with Roses: Waterhouse’s Soul of the Rose

Simon Goldhill (Dept. of Greek, Kings College Cambridge)Sex in the afternoon: the ancient world and desire in Waterhouse

Nancy Marshall (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Nymphs in the City: Waterhouse in the Context of LateNineteenth-Century London

Stefano-Maria Evangelista (Trinity College Oxford) Ladies of Shalott: Waterhouse and Victorian Poetry

A roundtable discussion will be led by the co-curatorsof the exhibition: Elizabeth Prettejohn (Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol), Peter Trippi (independent art historian and Editor, Fine Art Connoisseur),Robert Upstone (Curator of Modern British Art, Tate),Patty Wageman (Deputy Director, Groninger Museum).

Evening reception and private view of the exhibition at 7 p.m. in the Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts.

John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)2 September 2009

This conference will address the collecting of antiquitiesin Europe, primarily focussing on England and Italy, inthe eighteenth century. The event will coincide with theforthcoming publication by Yale University Press of Diggingand Dealing in Eighteenth Century Rome, a book begun by thenoted Grand Tour scholar, the late Ilaria Bignamini, andcompleted by Clare Hornsby. This project explores theinvolvement of the British in Rome in the enormouslyactive market in marbles and other antiquities in mid- tolate-century. The conference has been jointly planned by thePaul Mellon Centre and the Department of Greek andRoman Antiquities at the British Museum and opens with akeynote lecture in the BP Lecture Theatre at the BritishMuseum at 6.30 pm on Thursday 28th January byProfessor David Watkin, and continues on Friday 29th atthe Paul Mellon Centre.

Speakers, including Tim Knox, Director of Sir JohnSoane’s Museum and Ian Jenkins, Senior Curator, Departmentof Greek and Roman Antiquities, at the British Museum,will look in detail at different aspects of Antiquity at Home,concentrating on objects and collections. There will be talkslooking closely at specific marbles and house collectionsand broader examinations of the rôle of collectors suchas Charles Townley, Richard Worsley and the Gaetanifamily in Naples.

The Study Day will begin with a tribute to Ilaria Bignamini by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Masterof Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and formerly Director of the British School at Rome.

Full conference fee, including admission to ProfessorWatkin’s lecture on 28 January, coffee, lunch, tea and awine reception at the Paul Mellon Centre on 29 January,is £40 (Student and Senior Citizen concessions £20). Toregister for the conference please check availability withElla Fleming at the Paul Mellon Centre. Tel: 202 75800311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 Email: events@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk then send a cheque made payable to the PaulMellon Centre to 16 Bedford Square, London, WC1B3JA, including a stamped addressed envelope.

Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Romeby Ilaria Bignamini and Clare Hornsby

This important and long-awaited book offers the firstoverview of all British-led excavation sites in and aroundRome in the Golden Age of the Grand Tour. Based onwork carried out by the late Ilaria Bignamini, the booktraces sculptures and other works of art that arecurrently in public collections around the world fromtheir original find-sites via the dealers and entrepreneursto the private collectors in Britain. In the first of twovolumes, approximately fifty sites, each located by maps,are analysed in historical and topographical detail,supported by fifty newly written and researchedbiographies of the major names in the Anglo-Italianworld of dealing and collecting. Essays by Bignamini andHornsby introduce the field of study and elucidate thecomplex bureaucracy of the relevant departments of thePapal courts. The second volume of the book is acollection of hundreds of letters from the dealers andexcavators abroad to collectors in England, offering arich source of information about all aspects of the artmarket at the time.

Ilaria Bignamini was an historian of art and archaeology.Clare Hornsby is Research Fellow at the British School atRome.

January 270x217 mm. 200 b/w + 50 colour illus. Vol. 1: 288 pp. Vol. 2: 176 pp. Slipcased ISBN 978-0-300-16043-7 £45.00

Antiquity at HomeStudy Day at the Paul MellonCentre, 28–29th January 2010

Related publicationTHE PAUL MELLON CENTRE CONFERENCE AND PUBLICATION

THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATIONS

The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenmentby Celina Fox

This book is about the people who did the work. The artsof industry encompassed both liberal and mechanicalrealms – not simply the representation of work in the fineart of painting, but the mechanical arts or skills involved inthe processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth ofprimary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics andartisans used four principal means to describe andrationalise their work: drawing, model making, societiesand publications. These four channels, the central themesof this engrossing book, provided the basis forexperimentation and invention, explanation andclassification, validation and authorisation, promotion andcelebration, bringing them into the public domain andachieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment.

The book also examines the status of the mechanicalarts from the medieval period to the seventeenth centuryand explains how and why entrepreneurs, mechanics andartisans presented themselves to the world in portraits,and how industry was depicted in landscape and genrepainting. The book concludes in the early nineteenthcentury when, despite the drive towards specialisation andexclusivity and the rise of the profession of engineer, thebroad sweep of the mechanical arts retained a distinctidentity for far longer than has generally been recognised.The debates their presence provoked are still with us today.

Celina Fox is an independent scholar and museumsadvisor. She was the editor of London World City.

October352 pp. 280x200mm. 200 b/w + 60 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-16042-0 £40.00

Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stonesand Jewellery by Marcia Pointon

Diamonds are not for ever – nor necessarily are they agirl’s best friend. Ranging from precious stones as rawwealth to the symbolic properties of gems whether inAntiquity and the Bible or in Victorian art and literature,this book examines how small-scale and valuableartefacts have figured in systems of belief and in politicaland social practice in Europe since the Renaissance.Marcia Pointon offers an in-depth study that, drawing onunpublished evidence, reveals the importance of artefactsproduced by jewellers and horologists, and theirsignificance in shaping people’s understanding of theworld they live in. Pointon explores the capacity of jewelsnot only to fascinate but also to create disorder andcontroversy throughout history: what is materiallyprecious is invariably contentious, whether in religious orin secular society; when what is precious is not gold barsor bonds but finely crafted artefacts made from hard-wonimported materials, the stakes are particularly high. Thestruggle for control of both material and meaning isparamount, whether in scientific discourse (as with JohnRuskin’s crystallography) or in pictorial imagery, such asPoussin’s interpretation of the origin of coral.

Marcia Pointon is Professor Emerita in History of Art,Manchester University, and Honorary Research Fellow,Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

September368 pp. 290x245mm. 100 b/w + 150 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-14278-5 £45.00

THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATIONS

A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain,1660–1851 by Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy and M. G. Sullivan

This remarkable dictionary provides information on thework of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between1660 and 1851. It is a substantially expanded edition ofGunnis’s Dictionary of British Sculptors, the primarysource for information on church monuments, portraitbusts, carved fireplaces and other sculpture since itspublication in 1951. The editorial team, and invitedexperts in the field, have drawn on a mass of archival andscholarly material, including Gunnis’s own extensiveunpublished archive, to rewrite all the major lives of thesculptors, and to add over 1,000 new ones. Each entryprovides a brief bio graphy of the sculptor, where possible,followed by a list of his or her known works. Each workis identified by date and location, past or present.Provenance, materials, exhibitions, known preparatorysketches and models are also recorded. The book containsa full list of bibliographical references and an index ofnames and of locations.

Ingrid Roscoe is an independent scholar, Emma Hardy iscollections manager at the Geffrye Museum and M. G.Sullivan is curator of sculpture at the AshmoleanMuseum.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies inBritish Art and The Henry Moore Foundation

September 1616 pp. 232x154mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14965-4 £80.00

Richard Norman Shaw (revised edition) by Andrew Saint

Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) was the most fertile,representative and immediately influential domesticarchitect of the late Victorian period in England. Histraining and early career coincided with the heyday of theGothic Revival, in which style he designed a handful oforiginal churches. His most prolific period of practice sawthe triumph of the ‘Old English’ and ‘Queen Anne’ domesticstyles which are largely associated with his name. Aseries of powerful urban buildings designed towards theend of Shaw’s career reveals him as one of the foremostproponents of a revived classicism. In each of these stylesthe piquant originality of Shaw’s designs and thebrilliance of his planning captivated his contemporariesin the architectural and social world alike. He became theundisputed leading architect of his day and the precursorof such different talents as Lutyens and Voysey. In theUnited States, Shaw’s distinctive contribution to Englishdomestic architecture played a formative part in theevolution of the Shingle Style. This new edition of amajor work offers a completely revised text and newintroduction and is now illustrated generously in colour,with many specially commissioned photographs.

Andrew Saint is the General Editor of The Survey ofLondon and the author of The Image of the Architect,Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Buildingin Post- War England and Architect and Engineer: A Study inSibling Rivalry.

October 488 pp. 280x220mm. 200 b/w + 60 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-15526-6 £40.00

New Grant Award

THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE WEBSITE

Paul Mellon Centre Website

LAUNCH OF THE NEW PAUL MELLON CENTRE WEBSITE

In March we launched our new website, which has beendesigned to provide increased functionality and to makeavailable archive materials relating to the Centre’s pastactivities. New photography has been undertaken toenhance the visual impact of the site and to communicateour purpose and range of resources. A full text searchfacility enables users to search the entire site by enteringdetails such as artist, event, title, author or keyword.There is a new section highlighting recent Paul MellonCentre/Yale University Press publications andeducational events supported through the fellowships andgrants programme. In addition, the backlist ofpublications has been organized alphabetically by authorsurname to ease navigation and users can now downloadpast newsletters and event details from 2002 onwards.

You can visit the site at: http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk and email feedback to: info@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk

THE WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM

RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT

The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust was created byWilhelmina Barns-Graham in her lifetime, and came intoeffect following her death in January 2004. The Trust hasdecided to instigate The Wilhelmina Barns-GrahamResearch Support Grant which will be awarded annually toa scholar or researcher in the field of 20th-century Britishpainting. The grant is for £2,000 to assist with travel,subsistence and other research costs and will beadministered by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studiesin British Art. Details of the award will be found onthe Fellowships and Grants pages of our website at:www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk and the closing date forapplications will be 15 September each year.

For further information on the Barns-Graham CharitableTrust see www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk

At the March 2009 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council, the following fellowships and grants wereawarded:

SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS

Tim Ayers to prepare his book The Medieval Stained Glassof Merton College, Oxford

Anna Gruetzner Robins to prepare her book The Artistsof the 1890s

ROME FELLOWSHIP

Ana María Suárez Huerta for research in Rome for herbook Travels across Europe in the 18th century: TheUnique Case of Spain

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

Ann-Marie Akehurst to prepare her book Architectureand Philanthropy in Eighteenth-Century York

Christina Bradstreet to prepare her book Scented Visions:Picturing Perfume in Victorian Art

Ruth Brimacombe to prepare an article ‘A new avatar ofart’: The ‘Special Artists’ of the Illustrated Press’ andher book Imperial Avatars: Art, India and the Prince ofWales in 1875-6

Juliana Dresvina to prepare her book The Cult of StMargaret of Antioch in Medieval Europe

Manolo Guerci to prepare his book From early Jacobeanto High Victorian: An architectural and social history ofNorthumberland House in the Strand, London, 1605-1874

Emily Weeks to prepare her book Cultures Crossed: JohnFrederick Lewis (1804-1876) and the Art of OrientalistPainting

JUNIOR FELLOWSHIPS

Christina Smylitopoulos, McGill University, to conductresearch in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesisA Nabob's Progress: Graphic Satire, ‘The GrandMaster’ and the source of Indian excess, 1770-1830

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME GRANTS

Museum of London grant towards a conference, 12 and13 November 2009: Pomp and Power – Carriages asStatus Symbols

University of Birmingham grant towards a symposium,April or May 2009: Boulton and Eginton’sMechanical Paintings (1777-1781): defining themechanical process

University of Birmingham grant towards a student-ledconference, 6 June 2009: Building the Future:Birmingham’s Architectural Story

University College Dublin grant towards a conference,21 and 22 May 2009: The Fusion of NeoclassicalPrinciples: scholars, architects, builders and designersin the neoclassical period

Victorian Society grant towards a symposium, 14November 2009: Ecclesiology and Empire: VictorianChurch Design Outside the British Isles 1830-1910

RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS

Jessica Berenbeim for research in the United Kingdomon ‘Art and History in the Sherborne Missal: LegalConsciousness and Monastic Culture in England,c.1400’

Stephen Bottomore for research in the United Kingdomon ‘The Art of Painting Films’

Renate Dohmen for research in the United Kingdom on‘Painting with Colour and Light: The Art of theAmateur Artist in British India’

Jennifer Ferng for research in the United Kingdom on‘Rococo interior designs of John Vardy and use ofcolour and applications of materials such as stone inthe architecture of William Butterfield’

Michael Gaudio for research in the United Kingdom on“Prosper Thou Our Handyworks”: Prints andProtestant Devotion at Little Gidding, 1625-1642’

Catherine Jolivette for research in the United Kingdomon ‘Art and the Atom: British Art in the Nuclear Age’

Dipti Khera for research in the United Kingdom on‘Urban Imaginings Between Empires: PicturingBritish India’s ‘Land of Princes’’

Jason LaFountain for research in the United Kingdomon ‘The Puritan Art World’

David Mackie for research in the United Kingdom onthe ‘Complete Catalogue of Sir Henry Raeburn(1756-1823)’

Jeffrey Miller for research in the United Kingdom on ‘TheBuilding Program of Walter de Gray: ArchitecturalProduction and Reform in the Archdiocese of York’

Anne-Françoise Morel for research in the UnitedKingdom on ‘The Construction of Meaning in 17thand 18th Century Church Architecture in England: AStudy of Church Consecrations’

David Raizman for research in the United Kingdom on‘Presentation Furniture in England, 1851-1889’

Chitra Ramalingam for research in the United Kingdomon ‘Henry Fox Talbot and the art of fixing transience’

Romita Ray for research in the United Kingdom on‘Under the Banyan Tree: Relocating the Picturesquein British India, 1700-1947’

Sarah Thomas for research in the United Kingdom on‘Visual Encounters in the New World: Race andslavery through British eyes, 1800-1850’

Maria Toscano for research in the United Kingdomon ‘John Strange and John Hawkins ItalianCorrespondences’

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Full details of the following exhibitions and programs can be found at www.yale.edu/ycba, by telephoning 001 203 432 2800, or by e-mailing ycba.info@yale.edu.

exhib it ionsPaintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, through 26 July 2009. Organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. Seascapes: Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection, through 23 August 2009. Organized by the Yale Center for British Art.

Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871–187911 June–23 August 2009. Co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

Mrs. Delany and Her Circle: Yale Center for British Art: 24 September 2009–3 January 2010; Sir John Soane’s Museum: 18 February– 1 May, 2010. Co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane’s Museum. A fully illustrated book accompanying the exhibition, edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg Roberts, will be published by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane’s Museum in association with Yale University Press.

related program: Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 5:30 pmExhibition Opening Lecture by Mark Laird, Senior Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Horace Walpole’s Strawberry HillYale Center for British Art: 15 October 2009–2 January 2010Victoria & Albert Museum: 6 March–4 July 2010Co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art; the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, edited by Michael Snodin with the assistance of Cindy Roman and published by the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, in association with Yale University Press.

related programs: Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 5:30 pmExhibition Opening Lecture by Michael Snodin, Senior Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum

Wednesday, 11 November, 5:30 pm Works of Genius: Amateur Artists at Strawberry HillLecture by Cindy Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Wednesday, 19 November, 5:30 pm Walpole’s Shakespeare: The First Appearance of Second Life Lecture by Joseph Roach, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and English, Yale University

publ icat ionsThe Center is pleased to announce the publication of a reprinted version of The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art by Jules David Prown, the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History

to1976). The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art was originally published for the Center’s grand opening in 1977. A new foreword by current director Amy Meyers brings the celebration of the Center into the present day. Published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press.

sen ior v is it ing scholar november 2009: Marcia Pointon, Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Manchester and Honorary Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London

v is it ing scholars july–august 2009: Christopher Coltrin, PhD candidate, University of Michigan; Amy Von Lintel, PhD candidate, University of Southern California august–september 2009: Meredith Hale, Independent Scholar ; Phillip Lindley, Reader in Art History and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Country House, University of Leicester

september 2009: Jay Curley, Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, Wake Forest University

october–november 2009: Petrina Dacres, Head of Department, Art History Department, Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts; Amanda Herbert, PhD candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University; Andrea Korda, PhD candidate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of California at Santa Barbara; Leon Wainwright, Lecturer in the History of Art and Design, Department of the History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University

Johann Heinrich Müntz, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, from the South Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University