European Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions and Collections
International Conference

The conference is being held on the occasion of the opening of the
fifth exhibition of the Tansey Collection and the publication of the
accompanying catalogue 'Miniatures from the Time of Marie-Antoinette in
the Tansey Collection' on 25 January 2013.


PROGRAMME

Friday, 25 January 2013 (Celle Castle, Schlossplatz 1 / Bomann-Museum
Celle, Schlossplatz 7)

16:30
Opening of the Exhibition 'Miniatures from the Time of Marie-Antoinette
in the Tansey Collection' at Celle Castle, Rittersaal

18.00
Visit of the exhibition and reception at the Bomann-Museum Celle

19:30
Dinner


Saturday, 26 January 2013 (Celle Castle, Schlossplatz 1, Rittersaal)

OBJECTS, AGENCIES, AND SOCIAL PRACTICES

09:00
Marcia POINTON (Manchester):
Intimacy, Exclusion and Revelation: The Portrait Miniature as Image and
Object ca. 1640-1800

09:30
Bert WATTEEUW (Antwerp):
Miniature Dramas: The Portrait Miniature as a Literary Motif in Early
Modern European Drama

10:00
Discussion

10:15 Coffee

POLITICS AND REPRESENTATION

10:45
Vanessa REMINGTON (London):
'Philistines or Connoisseurs?': The Collecting of Miniatures by the
Early Hanoverians at the English Court 1714-1760

11:15
Karin SCHRADER (Bad Nauheim):
Between Representation and Intimacy: The Portrait Miniatures of the
Georgian Queens

11:45
Friederike DRINKUTH (Schwerin):
Intimacy and Ancestry: A Dynastic Souvenir for Queen Charlotte

12:15
Discussion

12:30
Lunch

13:45
Laurent HUGUES (Nîmes):
The Commissions of Miniatures of the Royal Family from France According
to the Archival Sources, 1725-1792

14:15
Sarah GRANT (London):
Miniatures of the Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1792): The Portraiture,
Patronage and Politics of a Royal Favourite

14:45
Sigrid RUBY (Gießen/Saarbrücken):
Love Affairs with the Founding Father: Portrait Miniatures of George
Washington – Modes of Creation and Display

15:15
Discussion

15:30
Coffee


EUROPEAN MINIATURE COLLECTIONS (pt. 1)

16:00
Stephen LLOYD (Edinburgh):
A Group of Miniatures by Jacob van Doordt (fl. 1606 – d. 1629) in the
Buccleuch Collection

16:30
Thierry JAEGY (Paris):
Masterpieces of Miniature Painting in French Private Collections

17:00
Markus MILLER (Eichenzell):
The Collection of Portrait Miniatures of the Landgraves and Grand Dukes
of Hesse-Darmstadt

Andreas DOBLER (Eichenzell):
The Miniature Collection of Empress Friedrich in Castle Fasanerie

17:45
Discussion

19:30
Dinner


Sunday, 27 January 2013 (Celle Castle, Schlossplatz 1, Rittersaal)

EUROPEAN MINIATURE COLLECTIONS (pt. 2)

09:00
Elizaveta ABRAMOVA (Saint Petersburg):
The Collection of Miniatures from the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

09:30
Izabela WIERCZINSKA (Warsaw):
The Enchantment of History: Selected Masterpieces from the Miniatures
Collection of the Great Dukes of Hesse and by Rhine

10:00
Discussion

10:15
Coffee

10:45
Astrid SCHERP (Munich):
The Collection of Portrait Miniatures of Elector Palatine Johann
Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658-1716)

11:15
Lucyna LENCZNAROWICZ and Danuta GODYN (Cracow):
The Highlights of the Miniatures Collection at the National Museum in
Cracow

11:45
Discussion

12:00
Lunch


TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS

13:15
Emma RUTHERFORD (London):
The Plumbago Portrait in Britain

13:45
Julia SEDDA (Berlin):
Silhouettes: The Fashionable Paper Portrait Miniature around 1800

14:15
Discussion


MINIATURE PAINTERS

14:30
Nathalie LEMOINE-BOUCHARD (Paris):
Charles-Paul-Jérôme de Bréa (1739-1820) and his Work in Miniature

15:00
Coffee

15:30
Catherine DE LEUSSE (Paris):
Mme. Herbelin, a Miniaturist of the July Monarchy and of the Second
Empire

16:00
Roger and Carmela ARTURI PHILLIPS (Ferndown, Dorset):
Miniature Painting in the 20th Century

16:30
Discussion

16:45
Closing Remarks

REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION
Admission is free. Celle Castle as well as the Bomann-Museum nearby are
within walking distance (20 minutes) from Celle railway station. Trains
from Hannover take approx. 25 to 45 minutes (Deutsche Bahn, Metronom or
S-Bahn).

For more information and for registration please contact
bernd.pappeminiaturen-tansey.de


ORGANIZATION
Bernd PAPPE (Bern), Juliane SCHMIEGLITZ-OTTEN (Celle), Gerrit WALCZAK
(Berlin)


VISUAL CONCEPTION – IT COORDINATION
Birgitt SCHMEDDING (Hamburg)