FRIDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2016
15:00 Registration and Information, Celle Castle / Rittersaal
16:30 Welcome and Opening of the Exhibition
Miniatures from the Baroque Period in the Tansey Collection
18:00 Exhibition and reception at the Bomann-Museum
SATURDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2016
OBJECTS, AGENCIES AND SOCIAL PRACTICES
09:00 Ulrike Kern, Frankfurt
The Limner’s Language: Words and Concepts Related to Miniature Painting in England
09:30 Miranda L. Elston, Chapel Hill (North Carolina)
Hilliard’s Miniatures: Enacted Desire within the Elizabethan Court
10:00 Eloise Owens, New York
The Hand behind the Likeness: Women’s Practice as Portrait Miniaturists in Eighteenth-Century England
10:30 Discussion
10:45 Coffee
11:15 Christoph Großpietsch, Salzburg
Portrait Miniatures of Mozart – Problems of Authenticity
11:45 Violaine Joëssel, Geneva
A Quest for Legitimacy: The Practice of Miniature Painting in Colonial America
12:15 Dimitri Gorchkoff, Moscow
“ … et que tout ait un nom nouveau ”. Portrait Miniatures of Napoleon’s Marshals, Generals and Colonels: Analysis and Identification
12:45 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
POLITICS AND REPRESENTATION
14:15 Delia Scheffer, Kassel
Power through Relations – Duke Louis of Württemberg's Family Ties in a Series of Miniature Portraits
14:45 Sarah Grandin, Paris
Density in the Boîte à Portrait under Louis XIV
15:15 Stefanie Linsboth, Vienna
From Large‐Scale Paintings to Precious Miniatures – Maria Theresa’s Portrait Miniatures
15:45 Karin Schrader, Bad Nauheim
“Taking the Veil” – Miniatures of Royal Widows from the 16th to the 19th Centuries
16:15 Discussion
16:30 Coffee
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS
17:00 Tatjana Wischniowski, Dresden
Oil-Based Paint Under a Layer of Water – Arnaud Vincent de Montpetit’s “Eludoric Painting”, a Rare Miniature Painting Technique
17:30 Emma Rutherford, Alan Derbyshire, Victoria Button, London
The Drawings of John Smart (1742-1811); Function, Purpose and Line
18:00 Discussion
SUNDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2016
EUROPEAN MINIATURE COLLECTIONS
09:00 Lucy Davis, London
Famous Women in the Miniatures at the Wallace Collection
09:30 Catherine Hess, San Marino (California)
Up Close and Personal: Portrait Miniatures at The Huntington Art Collections
10:00 Isabel M. Rodríguez-Marco, Madrid
The Collection of Portrait Miniatures and Small Portraits in the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
10:30 Discussion
10:45 Coffee
11:15 Paul Caffrey, Dublin
European Enamels from the National Gallery of Ireland Collection
11:45 Wladyslaw Maximowicz, Bergamo
The Portrait Miniature in Russian Provincial Collections
12:15 Reetta Kuojärvi-Närhi, Helsinki
Small treasures in Finland – Paul Sinebrychoff as a Miniature Collector
12:45 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
MINIATURE PAINTERS
14:15 Halgard Kuhn, Hanover
Peter Boy (c. 1650-1727) – Medallions and Miniatures by the Frankfurt Baroque Goldsmith and Enamel Painter as Integrating Parts in Golden Jewellery
14:45 Karen Hearn, London
The ‘Small Oil Colour Pictures’ of Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661)
15:15 Marco Pupillo, Rome
Francesco Antonio Teriggi, a Miniaturist in the Service of Joseph Bonaparte
15:45 Roger and Carmela Arturi Phillips, Ringwood
The True and Flawed Genius of John Engleheart
16:15 Stephen Lloyd, Liverpool
Copying Portraits in Miniature in Regency England: the Work of William Derby (1786-1847) for the 13th Earl of Derby at Knowsley Hall
16:45 Discussion
17:00 Closing Remarks