The Hunterian

N.B. Events take place in The Hunterian Art Gallery and The Hunterian Museum.

Thursday 5 December 2013 - Hunterian Art Gallery

5.45pm - Evening Lecture followed by a reception: Professor Duncan Macmillan ‘Allan Ramsay and Portraiture in Enlightenment Scotland’

Friday 6 December 2013 - Hunterian Art Gallery

9.30am - Registration/tea and coffee
10.00 - Opening Speaker: Professor Murray Pittock ‘Jacobite Artists’ connections in Scotland and Italy’

Morning Session - Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre

Professor Nigel Leask (Session Chair)
Panel with Dr Rhona Brown and Melanie Buntin
10.40am - Professor Chris Whatley (University of Dundee) ‘A Hotbed for Genius: Allan Ramsay's Scotland’
11.10am - Dr Elizabeth Eger (King's College London) 'A Harmony of Minds: Allan Ramsay, Elizabeth Montagu and the Scottish Enlightenment'
11.40am - Dr Cristina Martinez (University of Carleton) 'Allan Ramsay: A Dilettante in Law and Politics’
12.10pm - Panel discussion

Lunch - 12.40pm - 2.00pm 

Afternoon Session - Hunterian Museum

Dr John Bonehill (Session Chair)
Panel with Anne Dulau, Rica Jones
2.15pm - Rica Jones (conservator and historian of paintings) ‘The significance of Ramsay's technique in context and perspective’
2.45pm - Dr Guillaume Farroult (Musée du Louvre) ‘Ramsay’s response to mid eighteenth-century French portraiture and aesthetic values’
3.30pm - Tea and coffee
4.00pm - Panel discussion

Evening Performance - Hunterian Art Gallery

5.00pm - Kirsteen McCue 'Allan Ramsay's Scots Songs: The First Music Book'

Registration fee: £40.00
Concession: £20.00 
Booking requested by 1 December 2013

Fees cover exhibition admission; the evening reception on 5 December; tea/coffees, lunch and performance with a glass of wine on 6 December. Payment to be made by cheque (to 'University of Glasgow') or by cash on the day.

For booking and further information please contact Mila Athayde (mila_athayde@yahoo.com.br).

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First published: 19 November 2013