The National Gallery, London, January 12 – 13, 2018
The conference is organized in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites’ (2 October 2017 – 2 April 2018), and will explore the complexities of the relationship between Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites.
For further information: https://arnolfinihistoriesconference.com/
The conference is convened by Professor Liz Prettejohn (University of York) and Dr Claire Yearwood.
PROGRAM
Friday 12 January
10.00-10.30 – Registration, with coffee/tea
10.30-10.45 – Welcome by Gabriele Finaldi (Director, National Gallery)/ Introduction and Welcome by Liz Prettejohn (University of York)
10.45-12.45 – Panel I: Mirrors, Arnolfini and Others
Claire Yearwood (University of York)
Reversing the Requirement of Science: Pre-Raphaelite Reflections of Van Eyck’s Mirror
Maria Rosa Figueiredo (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon)
The Gulbenkian Exhibition ‘Beyond the Mirror’
Robert Upstone (independent scholar)
Mirrors in the Work of William Orpen
12.45-2.00 – Lunch (not provided)
2.00-4.15 – Panel II: Conservation and Technique
Marika Spring and Susanna Avery-Quash (National Gallery)
Sir Charles Eastlake and the Reception of Northern European Painting in Britain during the 19th Century
Jason Rosenfeld (Marymount Manhattan College)
New Art from Old: The Pre-Raphaelites and Early Italian Painting
Joyce Townsend (Tate)
Reflections:/ Il Dolce far Niente/ and other paintings
4.15-4.30 – Break (no refreshments)
4.30-5.15 – Plenary I
Tim Barringer (Yale)
Ford Madox Brown and the North
Saturday 13 January
Before 10am – Private View of exhibition for speakers and conveners only
10.15-11.15 – Arnolfini Things – Post-Graduate Student Session
Robert Wilkes (Oxford Brookes University)
Joining Hands: The /Arnolfini Portrait and F.G. Stephens’s The Proposal
Debra Phillips (Australian Catholic University)
With this shoe, I thee wed: Interpreting the symbol of the shoe as a transaction confirmation in Van Eyck’s /Arnolfini Portrait
Georgios Miliaras (University of Edinburgh)
Out the Window: From the Apples of Paradise to Still Life; The American Pre-Raphaelites
Christin Neubauer and Charlotte Hone (University of York)
The Pre-Raphaelite Re-interpretation of Van Eyck’s Paternoster in the /Arnolfini Portrait/as a Symbolisation of Victorian Gender Constructions
11.15-11.30 – Break (no refreshments)
11.30-12.45 – Panel III: Van Eyck and Modern Art
Marjorie Coughlan (University of York)
The Art of Photography and the Photography of Art: Victorian and Contemporary Exploitation of the Tableau Vivant
Martin Hammer (University of Kent)
Mr and Mrs Arnolfini: Van Eyck Through the Eyes of David Hockney
12.45-2.00 – Lunch (not provided)
2.00-4.00 – Panel IV: Nineteenth-Century Receptions of Van Eyck
Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Flemish Primitives, Belgian Moderns: Reception and Appropriation of Late-Medieval Netherlandish Painting in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
Jenny Graham (Plymouth University)
The ‘Strange Mirror Picture’: A Nineteenth-Century Historiography of the Arnolfini Portrait
Jeanne Nuechterlein (University of York)
Early Netherlandish Paintings as Historical Specimens in the National Gallery
4.15-5.15 – Plenary II
Cordula Grewe (Indiana University)
