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Lectures tagged "portraiture"

Portraits from the Boston Athenaeum's Collection

David B. Dearinger

David Dearinger focuses on a small group of painted and sculpted portraits from the Athenaeum's collection, including Washington Allston's (1814) and Charles Robert Leslie's (1818) copies of Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the great history painter Benjamin West, Chester Harding's portrait of politici

Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture

Dr. Richard J. Powell discusses his new book, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. He examines the distinctive nature of modern and contemporary portraits of people of African descent.

Cecilia Beaux and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

Akela Reason explores Cecilia Beaux's portrait of Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, or Edith Minturn.

George Stubbs: Reapers and Haymakers

Richard Wendorf

January 22, 2004

Richard Wendorf attempts to show how scholars who have addressed the paintings of George Stubbs have missed the central point of his work as an artist. The painter George Stubbs is perhaps best known for his dramatic and painstakingly accurate portraits of English horse flesh.

Thomas Gainsborough: The Substance of Style

Frederick Ilchman

Frederick Ilchman discusses Thomas Gainsborough's elegant portraits, which were the height of fashion in 18th-century England. Ilchman discusses the context in which these works were created: Gainsborough's competitors and the demands of his patrons.