Dr Hilary Macartney

Honorary Fellow (Stirling Maxwell Centre) (School of Modern Languages & Cultures)

email: Hilary.Macartney@glasgow.ac.uk

History of Art, 8 University Gardens

Research interests

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. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, she began her career in Glasgow Museums. She has also worked in publishing and cultural tourism.

Research Interests

My principal research interests are centred around Spanish art, including its historiography, theory, and reception. They focus in particular on the role of Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818-78) as scholar and collector of Spanish art. His landmark Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848) was the first photographically illustrated book on art and prompted my wider interests in the reproduction of art, early photography and the relationship between art and photography. Likewise, Stirling Maxwell’s fascination for illustrated books and the relationship between word and image generally have developed my own interests in these areas. More broadly, my research in the above areas is also linked to my long-term interests in nineteenth-century British art, taste and collecting.

Since 2010, many of my research interests and activities have been brought together within The Stirling Maxwell Research Project. The principal outputs of the first phase of this international and interdisciplinary collaboration were the publication of Copied by the Sun a facsimile and critical edition of the photographic illustrations to Stirling’s book (see PUBLICATIONS), along with an exhibition of the same name held at the Prado Museum in Madrid during May to September 2016 (see EXHIBITIONS below).

Publications

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2025

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2025) Spanish sculpture and its reproduction: Stirling Maxwell and the second edition of the Annals of the Artists of Spain. Hispanic Research Journal, 24(5), pp. 422-447. (doi: 10.1080/14682737.2024.2455312)

2022

González-Román, Carmen and MacArtney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2022) Displaying art in a sacred space: The artworks for the Triunfo of St. Ferdinand in Seville Cathedral (1671). In: Bianchi, Pamela (ed.) Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period: Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces. Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions. Routledge: New York, pp. 131-152. ISBN 9781032202884

2020

Gomes, Luis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5628-7296 and MacArtney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2020) The Exotic Otherness of Early Modern Imagery and Emblematics. 2022 MLA International Symposium, Glasgow, UK, 2-4 Jun 2022.

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2020) Accessing Murillo: Stirling Maxwell’s contribution to scholarship, collecting and taste. In: Kent, Isabelle (ed.) Collecting Murillo in Britain and Ireland. CEEH, Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid. ISBN 9788415245964

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2020) Stirling Maxwell and the legacy of Ceán Bermúdez in scholarship of Spanish art in nineteenth-century Britain. In: García López, David and Santiago Páez, Elena M.ª. (eds.) Ceán Bermúdez y la historiografía de las bellas artes. Ediciones Trea: Gijón, pp. 187-204. ISBN 9788418105302

2019

Powell, Véronique Gerard and MacArtney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2019) Plunder, dissolution, and dodgy dealing: the international market for Spanish art in the nineteenth century. In: Milosch, Jane C. and Pearce, Nick (eds.) Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, MD, pp. 175-188. ISBN 9781538127568

González-Román, Carmen and Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2019) Prólogo. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 3(2), p. 173. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2019.1630205)

González-Román, Carmen and Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2019) Teatralidad y performatividad de las artes: el contexto hispánico en la Europa de los siglos XVI–XVIII [Guest Editors]. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 3(2),

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2019) Lingering over graphic descriptions of grand state ceremonials and festivities: Stirling Maxwell and the role of the artist in Golden-Age Spain. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 3(2), pp. 189-204. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2019.1621097)

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2019) Modelos de difusión de la obra de Murillo. De la estampa a la fotografía. In: Congreso Internacional ‘Murillo ante su Centenario’, Seville, Spain, 19-22 Mar 2018, pp. 77-86.

2018

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2018) A university set on a hill overlooking one of the richest cities: Stirling Maxwell, Spanish Culture, and the University of Glasgow. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, (doi: 10.1080/14753820.2018.1457871) (Early Online Publication)

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2018) El arte español entre Roma y París (siglos XVIII y XIX): intercambios artísticos y circulación de modelos. Edited by Luis Sazatornil & Frédéric Jiméno. Collection de la Casa de Velázquez 143. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2014. xi + 574 pp. 93 colour + 49 black-and-white illustrations. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 2(1), pp. 152-153. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2018.1463763)[Book Review]

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2018) ILENIA COLÓN MENDOZA, The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández: Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate. 2018. xviii + 186 pp. 16 colour + 52 black-and-white illustrations. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 2(2), pp. 347-349. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2018.1512774)[Book Review]

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2018) On Art and Painting: Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain. Edited by Jean Andrews, Jeremy Roe and Oliver Noble Wood. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2016. Studies in Visual Culture. xxvi + 386 pp. 43 black-and-white illustrations. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 2(2), pp. 349-351. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2018.1512774)[Book Review]

2017

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2017) Cean Bermudez: historiador del arte y coleccionista ilustrado. Hispanic Research Journal, 18(5), pp. 442-445. (doi: 10.1080/14682737.2017.1377497)[Book Review]

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2017) Velázquez:‘Las Meninas’and the Late Royal Portraits. [Exhibition catalogue]. Edited by Javier Portús. Translated by Wade Matthews and Laura Suffield. London/New York: Thames & Hudson. 2014. 176 pp.; 83 colour + 9 black-and-white illustrations. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 1(2), pp. 318-319. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2017.1366170)[Book Review]

2016

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 and Matilla, José Manuel (Eds.) (2016) Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain” by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Museo Nacional del Prado/ Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid. ISBN 9788415245551

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2016) Retrato enigmático: La Dama del armiño, Stirling Maxwell y la recepción de El Greco. In: Almarcha, Esther, Martínez-Burgos, Palma and Sainz Magaña, Elena (eds.) El Greco en su IV centenario: Patrimonio hispánico y diálogo intercultural. Series: Estudios (151). Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca. ISBN 9788490441787

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2016) Stirling, the Annals and the reproduction of Spanish art. In: Macartney, Hilary and Matilla, José Manuel (eds.) Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain” by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Museo Nacional del Prado/ Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid, pp. 21-45. ISBN 9788415245551

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958, Liddy, Brian and Harding, Colin (2016) Documenting the photography for the Annals Talbotypes. In: Macartney, Hilary and Matilla, José Manuel (eds.) Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain” by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Museo Nacional del Prado/ Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid, pp. 95-105. ISBN 9788415245551

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958, Matilla, José Manuel and Naranjo, Beatriz (2016) Catalogue Raisonné. In: Macartney, Hilary and Matilla, José Manuel (eds.) Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain” by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Museo Nacional del Prado/ Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid, pp. 125-293. ISBN 9788415245551

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958, Matilla, José Manuel and Naranjo, Beatriz (2016) Census of bound edition copies of Talbotype illustrations to the Annals of the Artists of Spain by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. In: Macartney, Hilary and Matilla, José Manuel (eds.) Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain” by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Museo Nacional del Prado/ Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid, pp. 295-316. ISBN 9788415245551

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 and Weston, David (2016) (Re)constructing the Annals Talbotypes volume. In: Macartney, Hilary and Matilla, José Manuel (eds.) Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain” by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Museo Nacional del Prado/ Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid, pp. 69-77. ISBN 9788415245551

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 and Matilla, José Manuel (2016) Introduction. In: Macartney, Hilary and Matilla, José Manuel (eds.) Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain” by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Museo Nacional del Prado/ Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid, pp. 11-19. ISBN 9788415245551

Tate, Jim, Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 and Young, Maureen (2016) Questions of fading: science, debate and analysis in the Annals Talbotypes. In: Macartney, Hilary and Matilla, José Manuel (eds.) Copied by the Sun: Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain” by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Museo Nacional del Prado/ Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Madrid, pp. 107-123. ISBN 9788415245551

2015

Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2015) Faith in facsimile? The invention of photography and the reproduction of Spanish art. Art in Translation, 7(1), pp. 95-122. (doi: 10.2752/175613115X14235644692356)

2012

Fracchia, Carmen and Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2012) The fall into oblivion of the works of the slave painter Juan de Pareja. Art in Translation, 4(2), pp. 63-84. (doi: 10.2752/175613112X13309377913043)

2011

Dosio, P.A. and Macartney, H. [translator] ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2011) Exchanging Glances: art in the International Exhibitions in Argentina (1882-1910). Art in Translation, 3(4), pp. 401-432. (doi: 10.2752/175613111X13099647164167)

Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2011) Experiments in photography as the tool of art history, no. 1: William Stirling's Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848). Journal of Art Historiography, 5, pp. 1-17.

Gomes, Luis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5628-7296, Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 and Holloway, Anne (2011) Iberian Era brought to life through art. [Website]

Escobar, T. and Macartney, H. (translator) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. (doi: 10.2752/175613111X12877376766266)

Kinchin, J., Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 and Robertson, D. (Eds.) (2011) Cottier's in Context: Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow. Series: Case Study. Historic Scotland: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781849170529

Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2011) 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. Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces.

Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. (doi: 10.1179/174582010X12813459925599)

Glendinning, N. and Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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

Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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

2009

Burucúa, J.E. and Macartney, H. (translator) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. (doi: 10.2752/175613109787307681)

Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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. (doi: 10.1179/174582007X245294)

2006

Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2006) William Stirling and the talbotype volume of the Annals of the Artists of Spain. History of Photography, 30(4), pp. 291-308.

2005

Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (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.

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Articles

González-Román, Carmen and Macartney, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2019) Prólogo. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 3(2), p. 173. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2019.1630205)

Macartney, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-2958 (2006) William Stirling and the talbotype volume of the Annals of the Artists of Spain. History of Photography, 30(4), pp. 291-308.

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