We've just received word of fascinating lecture being given this week by Catriona Seth FBA at the University of Edinburgh's History of Art Research Seminar Series.
This is a hybrid event taking place on 27th April, 2023 between 5 and 7pm. To register for the event and for further information on attendance please click here.
Further information on the talk itself is below and via the link:
“I’ll top it with the best of them.” Recovering Katherine Read’s (net)works
From Dundee to exile in Paris and Rome with the Jacobites, Katherine Read (1723-1778) managed to make the most of what fate threw at her. She studied with Quentin de La Tour and Blanchet, visited Rosalba Carriera and set up a studio in London. She met with great acclaim and though she also painted in oils, her most usual medium was ‘crayons’ or pastel. Her portraits of women and children, including members of the royal family, were much admired. At the end of her life, for personal and professional reasons, Read set off for Madras where she painted both Indians and Europeans. She died onboard ship as she attempted to return to Europe. Read’s letters and her choices show an acute consciousness of what was or was not possible for a woman with artistic ambitions and a true career strategy which her near-total absence from the canon and public collections has rendered almost invisible.
Catriona Seth is Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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