School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Hilary Macartney

  • Research Associate, Honorary Research Fellow (History of Art)

email: Hilary.Macartney@glasgow.ac.uk


Biography

Dr Hilary Macartney is Project Director of The Stirling Maxwell Research Project. Her doctoral thesis for the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, examined the important contribution of the nineteenth-century Scottish scholar Sir William Stirling Maxwell to the historiography of Spanish art. Her recent publications include Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1920: Studies in Reception in Memory of Enriqueta Harris Frankfort (Tamesis, 2010), which she co-edited with Professor Nigel Glendinning, as well as articles on the reception and reproduction of Spanish art for peer-reviewed journals such as Hispanic Research Journal and History of Photography, an essay for the catalogue of the Edinburgh International Festival exhibition The Discovery of Spain (National Gallery of Scotland, 2009), and English translations of articles on art in Spain and Latin America for Art in Translation. She is also co-editor of Cottier’s in Context: Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow, by Juliet Kinchin, Hilary Macartney and David Robertson (Historic Scotland, 2011).

Research Interests

  • Spanish art, including historiography, theory, and reception
  • 19th-century British art, taste and collecting
  • early photography
  • the reproduction of art
  • the relationship between art and photography
  • illustrated books and the relationship between word and image
  • the role of religious images

Research Project

The Stirling Maxwell Research Project, an international collaboration between the University of Glasgow, the National Media Museum, Bradford and, in Spain, the Prado Museum and the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH), Madrid, to study the first photographically illustrated book on art: William Stirling’s Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848).

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Number of items: 19.

2012

Dosio, P.A., and Macartney, H. [translator] (2012) Exchanging Glances: art in the International Exhibitions in Argentina (1882-1910). Art in Translation . ISSN 1756-1310 (In Press)

Macartney, H. (2012) La colección de arte español formada por Sir William Stirling Maxwell. In: Antigüedad del Castillo-Olivares , M.D. and Ruiz, A.A. (eds.) Colecciones, expolio, museos y mercado artístico en España en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Universidad a Distancia, Madrid. (In Press)

2011

Escobar, T., and Macartney, H. (translator) (2011) Parallel modernities. Notes on artistic modernity in the Southern Cone of Latin America: The case of Paraguay. Art in Translation, 3 (1). pp. 87-114. ISSN 1756-1310 (doi:10.2752/175613111X12877376766266)

Kinchin, J., Macartney, H. and Robertson, D., eds. (2011) Cottier's in Context: Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow. Series: Case Study, 3 . Historic Scotland, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781849170529

Macartney, H. (2011) Documenting the building. In: Kinchin, J., Macartney, H. and Robertson, D. (eds.) Cottier's in Context: Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow. Series: Case Study (3). Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 78-93. ISBN 9781849170529

Macartney, H. (2011) Documenting the congregation: ministry and mission. In: Kinchin, J., Macartney, H. and Robertson, D. (eds.) Cottier's in Context: Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow. Series: Case Study (3). Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 58-77. ISBN 9781849170529

Macartney, H., and Ferdinand, A. (2011) Documenting the painted decoration. In: Kinchin, J., Macartney, H. and Robertson, D. (eds.) Cottier's in Context: Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow. Series: Case Study (3). Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 94-109. ISBN 9781849170529

Robertson, D., Jamieson, K., and Macartney, H. (2011) Music, harmony and the Willis organ. In: Kinchin, J., Macartney, H. and Robertson, D. (eds.) Cottier's in Context: Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow. Series: Case Study (3). Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 121-129. ISBN 9781849170529

2010

Macartney, H. (2010) Innovation and tradition in the reproduction of Spanish art: Stirling, Utterson, and an album in the British Museum. Hispanic Research Journal, 11 (5). pp. 451-477. ISSN 1468-2737 (doi:10.1179/174582010X12813459925599)

Glendinning, N. and Macartney, H., (Eds.) (2010) Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1920: Studies in reception in memory of Enriqueta Harris Frankfort. Tamesis, Woodbridge. ISBN 9781855662230

Macartney, H. (2010) The Murillo/Velázquez debate: Aspects of the critical fortunes of Murillo and Velázquez in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writing on spanish art in the UK. In: Glendinning, N. and Macartney, H. (eds.) Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1920: Studies in Reception in Memory of Enriqueta Harris Frankfort. Tamesis, Woodbridge, pp. 162-187. ISBN 9781855662230

Macartney, H. (2010) Writing the history of Spanish art in nineteenth-century Britain. In: Glendinning, N. and Macartney, H. (eds.) Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1920: Studies in Reception in Memory of Enriqueta Harris Frankfort. Tamesis, Woodbridge, pp. 86-102. ISBN 9781855662230

Macartney, H. (2010) The catholic question: Attitudes to roman catholicism in nineteenth-century britain and their impact on the reception of spanish art. In: Glendinning, N. and Macartney, H. (eds.) Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1920: Studies in Reception in Memory of Enriqueta Harris Frankfort. Tamesis, Woodbridge, pp. 139-161. ISBN 9781855662230

Macartney, H. (2010) The reproduction of Spanish art. In: Glendinning, N. and Macartney, H. (eds.) Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1920: Studies in Reception in Memory of Enriqueta Harris Frankfort. Tamesis, Woodbridge, pp. 103-128. ISBN 9781855662230

2009

Burucúa, J.E., and Macartney, H. (translator) (2009) Reflections on the painting of Alejandro Puente, the notion of Pathosformel, and the return to life of mortally wounded civilizations. Art in Translation, 1 (1). pp. 153-179. ISSN 1756-1310 (doi:10.2752/175613109787307681)

Macartney, H. (2009) The British ‘discovery’ of Spanish Golden Age art: Taste, collecting, and the response of British artists. In: Baker, C., Howarth, D., Stirton, P. and Heide, C. (eds.) The Discovery of Spain: British Artists and collectors: Goya to Picasso. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 80-105. ISBN 9781906270186

2007

Macartney, H. (2007) Stirling, Ford, and nineteenth-century reception of Goya: The case of the Santa Justa and Santa Rufina: 'abomination' or 'appropriate composition'? Hispanic Research Journal, 8 (5). pp. 425-444. ISSN 1468-2737 (doi:10.1179/174582007X245294)

2006

Macartney, H. (2006) William Stirling and the talbotype volume of the Annals of the Artists of Spain. History of Photography, 30 (4). pp. 291-308. ISSN 0308-7298

2005

Macartney, H. (2005) The reproduction of Spanish Art: Hill and Adamson’s calotypes and Sir William Stirling Maxwell’s ‘Annals of the Artists of Spain' (1848). Studies in Photography . pp. 16-23. ISSN 1462-0510

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  • Santander Universities, Santander Shareholders and the Kress Foundation for The Stirling Maxwell Research Project

Administration

  • Honorary Vice-President, ARTES Iberian & Latin American Visual Arts Group

Exhibitions

  • 'The Discovery of Spain', Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, 2009, National Gallery of Scotland, guest curator & catalogue contributor
  • 'El joven Murillo', Winter 2009, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, catalogue contributor