Case Studies
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The master model of the bust (created in nylon from the computer model) with the mould © National Conservation Centre, Liverpool Sculpture replication case study
The National Conservation Centre’s commission to produce plaster replicas of Michael Rysbrack’s bust of the architect James Gibbs (1682-1754) at the V&A.
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Gwen Yarker / Dorset County Museum Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County, Dorset County Museum 2011
This major exhibition of portraits showed the people who lived in and influenced Dorset during the eighteenth-century. In addition to showing the important landowners who built major houses in the county, there were images of architects, artists, doctors, a deer catcher and a boatman. Most of the important portrait artists of the age, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Thomas Gainsborough and Allan Ramsay were represented and three - Sir James Thornhill, Giles Hussey and Thomas Beach - were all[...]
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Sir John Hort, 1st Bt (1735-1807) by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), 1785, Saltram, Devon ©National Trust Images/Matthew Hollow A Painter of 'Strong and Good Likenesses'. Studying some Gilbert Stuart portraits from Saltram House by Sophie Brummitt and Maureen Cross
A technical study of nine portraits by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) in National Trust’s online Arts, Buildings, Collections Bulletin October 2011.
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Exhibitions & Displays
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Portrait of a Lady: The Life and Passions of Lady Barber, 2012-13
Lady Barber Gallery, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, 14 December 2012 – 24 February 2013 Exhibition[...]
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Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County, Dorset County Museum 2011
This major exhibition of portraits showed the people who lived in and influenced Dorset during the eighteenth-century. In[...]
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Learning Programmes
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Podcasts from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington
Access a fantastic range of gallery talks, interviews with artists and lectures from the Smithsonian NPG on their[...]
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Online learning resources from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, many using portraits in the collection.
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Briana Zavadil White at National Portrait Gallery Washington
Briana Zavadil White, school and teacher program coordinator at the National Portrait Gallery, demonstrates the ‘Compare and Contrast’[...]
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‘Getting Under the Skin’ Secondary school visitors learning module, Manchester City Galleries
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Other
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Sculpture replication case study
The National Conservation Centre’s commission to produce plaster replicas of Michael Rysbrack’s bust of the architect James Gibbs[...]
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Conserving a portrait of Colonel French, by Ronald Moore
An account of conservation work on this nineteenth-century portrait in 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum, Cardiff.[...]
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A Painter of ‘Strong and Good Likenesses’. Studying some Gilbert Stuart portraits from Saltram House by Sophie Brummitt and Maureen Cross
A technical study of nine portraits by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) in National Trust’s online Arts, Buildings, Collections Bulletin[...]
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Participation projects