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[caption id="attachment_4788" align="aligncenter" width="291"] Thomas Gainsborough, John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, about 1693 - 1770. Soldier, 1767, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery[/caption]Type : colloque.Date et horaire : 29 et 30 novembre 2018 .Lieu : National Portrait Gallery, Londres.Biography has always haunted the study of portraiture. Although in recent decades art-historians may have developed a healthy scepticism for the intuitive practice of interpreting portraits with straightforward reference to what is known about the lives of their subjects, the temptation to do so remains strong. These tendencies often appear in their most untrammelled form in analyses of artists’ likenesses of themselves, or of their most intimate acquaintances. Taking the current major exhibition Gainsborough’s Family Album at the National Portrait Gallery as a starting point, leading academics will explore the how the biographical archive might play in this field of study going forward.Tickets: £30 General Admission and £25 Concessions and Gallery Supporters. The first day ends with an out-of-hours view of the exhibition and drinks reception. Unlimited entry to the exhibition on the second day of the conference is also included in the ticket price. Tea and coffee are provided on both days. Book online, or visit the National Portrait Gallery in person.Programmejeudi 29 novembre 201813.30  Registration14.00  Introduction and welcome by Lucy Peltz (National Portrait Gallery) and Sarah Turner (Paul Mellon Centre)14.15  Session One: Heads and TalesChaired by Lucy Peltz• Meredith Gamer (Columbia University), Of Sitters and Subjects: William Hunter and the Anatomical Portrait• Lejla Mrgan (University of Copenhagen), The Bewildering Silence of Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Portrait Busts15.30  Tea Break16.00  Session Two: Parallel LivesChaired by Martin Postle (Paul Mellon Centre)• Rosemary Keep (University of Birmingham), ‘… masculine in all save her body and her sexe’: Lady Jane Burdett, Portrait and Biography• Kerstin Maria Pahl (Humboldt University and King’s College London), Back-Ups: Portraiture, Life-Writing, and the Art of Information in Long-Eighteenth-Century England17.15  Break17.30  Session Three• David Solkin (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Mark Hallett (Paul Mellon Centre) in conversation: Gainsborough’s Family Album18.30  Exhibition view and drinksvendredi 30 novembre 201810.30  Session FourChaired by by Mark Hallett• Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University), Portraiture, Biography, and Occupational Identities11.15  Coffee Break11.45  Session Five: Love and Likeness• Marlen Schneider (Université Grenoble Alpes), Portraiture as Cultural Practice: Displaying Social Identity in French ‘Portraits Histories’• Katherine Fein (Columbia University), Indexical Portraiture and Embodied Biography in Harriet Hosmer’s ‘Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’13.00  Lunch Break14.00  Session Six: Circulating LivesChaired by David Solkin• Georgia Haseldine (Queen Mary University of London and National Portrait Gallery), Competing Likenesses: Portraits and Biographies of Radical Reformers• Claudine van Hensbergen (Northumbria University), Portraits, Mezzotint, and Public Lives: The Image of the Royal Mistress, 1660–170015.15  Tea Break15.45  Session Seven: Space and StatusChaired by Sarah Turner• Niharika Dinkar (Boise State University), Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Gifted Highborn’: Ravi Varma and Artistic Personhood in India• Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University of London), Lived Space: Portraits, Studios, and the Life of the Artist• Olivia Tait (University College London), ‘Neutralising’ Biography? Georg Baselitz’s Bedroom Portraits