National Portrait Gallery

Dr Berta Joncus discusses Jeremiah Davison’s Portrait of Catherine (‘Kitty’) Clive, 1735, Longleat House
11/11/2011
National Portrait Gallery Gallery Podcast Event
     
This is one of five podcasts produced by the Open University to accompany the exhibition ‘The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London 2011-2012. This show presents a vivid spectacle of femininity, fashion and theatricality in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England. It features portraits of some of the best known female performers of the period,...
Dr Lucy Peltz discusses Daniel Gardner’s Three Witches from Macbeth, 1775, The National Portrait Gallery, London
11/11/2011
National Portrait Gallery Gallery Podcast Event
     
This is one of five podcasts produced by the Open University to accompany the exhibition ‘The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons’ at the National Portrait Gallery 2011-2012. This show presents a vivid spectacle of femininity, fashion and theatricality in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England. It features portraits of some of the best known female performers of the period, who ranged...
Dr Moira Goff discusses John Ellys’s Portrait of Hester Booth, c1722-25, the V&A Museum
11/11/2011
National Portrait Gallery Gallery Podcast Event
     
This is one of five podcasts produced by the Open University to accompany the exhibition ‘The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London 2011-2012. This show presents a vivid spectacle of femininity, fashion and theatricality in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England. It features portraits of some of the best known female performers of the period,...
Professor Judith Hawley discusses James Gillray’s ‘Dilettante Theatricals: - or – a Peep at the Green Room’, 1803, The National Portrait Gallery, London
11/11/2011
National Portrait Gallery Gallery Podcast Event
     
This is one of five podcasts produced by the Open University to accompany the exhibition ‘The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons’, National Portrait Gallery 2011-2012. This show presents a vivid spectacle of femininity, fashion and theatricality in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England. It features portraits of some of the best known female performers of the period, who ranged from...
The First Actresses: Gender, Representation and Performance
Felicity Nussbaum, Gill Perry, Joseph Roach
11/11/2011
National Portrait Gallery Conference Event
     
This specialist academic conference will develop themes raised in the exhibition The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. Speakers, including Professors Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA) and Joseph Roach (Yale), will explore and problematise ideas of ‘celebrity’ culture and the symbolic, allegorical and discursive functions of portraits of women players. Focusing on visual representation, the...
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