Dr Patricia De Montfort

  • Senior Lecturer (History of Art)

telephone: 01413303268
email: Patricia.de-Montfort@glasgow.ac.uk

R205 Level 1, History of Art, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QH

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247

Research interests

Research Interests

  • British and American art c.1850-1920, especially the work of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and his circle
  • History of collecting and the art market
  • Exhibition culture and international artist/dealer networks
  • Gender and artistic practice; issues around identity and public/private space, with special interest in the life and work of Louise Jopling (1843-1933)
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of 19th century watercolour materials and practice

 

Publications

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2023

de Montfort, P. (2023) Whistler's late portraits of Ethel Birnie Philip in the Hunterian Collection. The Ten O'Clock: Journal of the Whistler Society(4),

2022

de Montfort, P. (2022) The apprenticeship years: from Whistler to Degas. In: Chambers, E. (ed.) Walter Sickert. Tate Publishing: London. ISBN 9781849768214

de Montfort, P. (2022) Women in Whistler’s images of Chelsea and the Thames. British Art Studies, 22,

2021

de Montfort, P. (2021) James McNeill Whistler: nature and industry. [Website]

de Montfort, P. (2021) Whistler: Art and Legacy. [Exhibitions]

Willsdon, C. and de Montfort, P. (2021) Whistler Nature and Science. [Website]

2020

de Montfort, P. (2020) “A great sensation” women in white in late Victorian literature and popular Culture. In: MacDonald, M. F. (ed.) The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 147-156. ISBN 9780300254501

2019

de Montfort, P. (2019) Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. The Hustle and the Scramble. Women's History Review, 28(7), pp. 1241-1242. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2019.1667586)[Book Review]

2018

de Montfort, P. (2018) Whistler and Nature. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, P. and Willsdon, C. (2018) Whistler and Nature. Paul Holberton: London. ISBN 9781911300496

de Montfort, P. (2018) “Suggesting, Exhorting, Encouraging”: Louise Jopling’s Art School for Women. Association for Art History Annual Conference, London, UK, 5-7 Apr 2018. (Unpublished)

2017

de Montfort, P. (2017) Art and Opportunity: Louise Jopling (1843-1933) and the Periodical Press. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference 2017, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 27-29 July 2017. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2017) Louise Jopling: artist, teacher, campaigner. Fine Art Connoisseur, 14(4), pp. 76-80.

de Montfort, P. (2017) Louise Jopling's Art School and the Slade Model. Association for Art History Annual Conference, Loughborough, UK, 6-8 April 2017. (Unpublished)

2016

de Montfort, P. (2016) Gender and Style in the Circle of James McNeill Whistler. Anxious Forms: Masculinities in Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century, Glasgow, UK, 28 Oct 2016. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2016) Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study of the Modern Woman Artist in Victorian Britain. Routledge: Burlington. ISBN 9781472467393 (hardback), 9781138352728 (paperback)

de Montfort, P. (2016) Louise Jopling in the studio. British Women Artists 1760-1960 Sub-Group Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 26 May 2016. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. and Calvert, R. (2016) Still Invisible: Provocation. British Art Studies(2), (doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/still-invisible)

de Montfort, P. (2016) British Art Studies, Issue 2 [Lead Editor]. British Art Studies, 2, (doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02)

2015

de Montfort, P. (2015) Louise Jopling: Artist and Teacher. [Exhibitions]

2014

de Montfort, P. (2014) Collecting women’s works: Jopling, the Rothschilds and their circle. The Collector and his Circle: New Research in the History of Collecting, London, UK, 1-2 July 2014. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2014) Researching 'Overlooked' Artists: Louise Jopling (1843-1933). British Art Network: Overlooked Victorian Artists, Manchester, UK, 16 Jan 2014. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2014) Whistler on exhibition in the 1890s: reputation and reward. In: Ono, A. (ed.) James McNeill Whistler: Retrospective. National Museum of Modern Art and Yokohama Museum of Art, pp. 239-242.

2013

de Montfort, P. (2013) Whistler and Watercolour. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, P. (2013) Louise Jopling: a gendered reading of late 19th-century Britain. Woman's Art Journal, 34,

de Montfort, P. (2013) Painting river pictures : Whistler’s Chelsea subjects. In: MacDonald, M. and de Montfort, P. (eds.) An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. Philip Wilson: London, pp. 30-49. ISBN 9781781300060

MacDonald, M.F. and de Montfort, P. (2013) An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. Philip Wilson: London. ISBN 9781781300060

2012

de Montfort, P. (2012) The Fine Art Society and the rise of the solo exhibition. In: Gould, C. and Mesplede, S. (eds.) Marketing Art in the British Isles, 1700 to the Present: A Cultural History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 147-163. ISBN 9781409436690

2011

de Montfort, P. (2011) Negotiating a reputation: J.M. Whistler, D.G. Rossetti and the art market, 1860-1900. In: Fletcher, P. and Helmreich, A. (eds.) The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850-1930. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 257-275. ISBN 9780719084607

2010

de Montfort, P. (2010) Whistler in the Twentieth Century. In: Hermens, E., Meacock, J. and Petri, G. (eds.) Connecting Whistler: Essays in honour of Margaret F. MacDonald. UNSPECIFIED: Glasgow, pp. 115-119.

de Montfort, P. (2010) Louise Jopling (1843-1933) [online 2010- ]. [Website]

2008

de Montfort, P. (2008) “Two to make a Brotherhood”: F.G. Stephens, art criticism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, 16(2), pp. 57-69.

2007

de Montfort, P. (2007) Exhibition culture in London 1878-1908. Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, 12,

2006

de Montfort, P. (2006) Exhibition Culture in London 1878-1908 [online 2003-10]. [Website]

2005

de Montfort, P. (2005) Whistler's ten o'clock lecture. Quarterly Ephemera, 1(3), pp. 81-90.

2004

de Montfort, P. (2004) "Atlas" and the Butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and the "World". In: Brake, L. and Codell, J. (eds.) Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, pp. 161-174. ISBN 1-4039-4177-7

2003

de Montfort, P. (2003) White Muslin: Joanna Hiffernan and the 1860's. In: MacDonald, M. F. (ed.) Whistler, Women and Fashion. Yale University Press: New York; London, pp. 76-91. ISBN 0 912114 22 3

MacDonald, M. F. , Galassi, S.G., Ribeiro, A. and de Montfort, P. (2003) Whistler, Women and Fashion. Yale University Press: London. ISBN 9780300099065

MacDonald, M. F. , de Montfort, P. and Thorp, N. (2003) The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler [online 2003-10]. University of Glasgow.

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Number of items: 39.

Articles

de Montfort, P. (2023) Whistler's late portraits of Ethel Birnie Philip in the Hunterian Collection. The Ten O'Clock: Journal of the Whistler Society(4),

de Montfort, P. (2022) Women in Whistler’s images of Chelsea and the Thames. British Art Studies, 22,

de Montfort, P. (2017) Louise Jopling: artist, teacher, campaigner. Fine Art Connoisseur, 14(4), pp. 76-80.

de Montfort, P. and Calvert, R. (2016) Still Invisible: Provocation. British Art Studies(2), (doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/still-invisible)

de Montfort, P. (2016) British Art Studies, Issue 2 [Lead Editor]. British Art Studies, 2, (doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02)

de Montfort, P. (2013) Louise Jopling: a gendered reading of late 19th-century Britain. Woman's Art Journal, 34,

de Montfort, P. (2008) “Two to make a Brotherhood”: F.G. Stephens, art criticism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, 16(2), pp. 57-69.

de Montfort, P. (2007) Exhibition culture in London 1878-1908. Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, 12,

de Montfort, P. (2005) Whistler's ten o'clock lecture. Quarterly Ephemera, 1(3), pp. 81-90.

Books

de Montfort, P. and Willsdon, C. (2018) Whistler and Nature. Paul Holberton: London. ISBN 9781911300496

de Montfort, P. (2016) Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study of the Modern Woman Artist in Victorian Britain. Routledge: Burlington. ISBN 9781472467393 (hardback), 9781138352728 (paperback)

MacDonald, M.F. and de Montfort, P. (2013) An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. Philip Wilson: London. ISBN 9781781300060

MacDonald, M. F. , Galassi, S.G., Ribeiro, A. and de Montfort, P. (2003) Whistler, Women and Fashion. Yale University Press: London. ISBN 9780300099065

Book Sections

de Montfort, P. (2022) The apprenticeship years: from Whistler to Degas. In: Chambers, E. (ed.) Walter Sickert. Tate Publishing: London. ISBN 9781849768214

de Montfort, P. (2020) “A great sensation” women in white in late Victorian literature and popular Culture. In: MacDonald, M. F. (ed.) The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 147-156. ISBN 9780300254501

de Montfort, P. (2014) Whistler on exhibition in the 1890s: reputation and reward. In: Ono, A. (ed.) James McNeill Whistler: Retrospective. National Museum of Modern Art and Yokohama Museum of Art, pp. 239-242.

de Montfort, P. (2013) Painting river pictures : Whistler’s Chelsea subjects. In: MacDonald, M. and de Montfort, P. (eds.) An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. Philip Wilson: London, pp. 30-49. ISBN 9781781300060

de Montfort, P. (2012) The Fine Art Society and the rise of the solo exhibition. In: Gould, C. and Mesplede, S. (eds.) Marketing Art in the British Isles, 1700 to the Present: A Cultural History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 147-163. ISBN 9781409436690

de Montfort, P. (2011) Negotiating a reputation: J.M. Whistler, D.G. Rossetti and the art market, 1860-1900. In: Fletcher, P. and Helmreich, A. (eds.) The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850-1930. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 257-275. ISBN 9780719084607

de Montfort, P. (2010) Whistler in the Twentieth Century. In: Hermens, E., Meacock, J. and Petri, G. (eds.) Connecting Whistler: Essays in honour of Margaret F. MacDonald. UNSPECIFIED: Glasgow, pp. 115-119.

de Montfort, P. (2004) "Atlas" and the Butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and the "World". In: Brake, L. and Codell, J. (eds.) Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, pp. 161-174. ISBN 1-4039-4177-7

de Montfort, P. (2003) White Muslin: Joanna Hiffernan and the 1860's. In: MacDonald, M. F. (ed.) Whistler, Women and Fashion. Yale University Press: New York; London, pp. 76-91. ISBN 0 912114 22 3

Book Reviews

de Montfort, P. (2019) Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. The Hustle and the Scramble. Women's History Review, 28(7), pp. 1241-1242. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2019.1667586)[Book Review]

Edited Books

MacDonald, M. F. , de Montfort, P. and Thorp, N. (2003) The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler [online 2003-10]. University of Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

de Montfort, P. (2018) “Suggesting, Exhorting, Encouraging”: Louise Jopling’s Art School for Women. Association for Art History Annual Conference, London, UK, 5-7 Apr 2018. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2017) Art and Opportunity: Louise Jopling (1843-1933) and the Periodical Press. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference 2017, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 27-29 July 2017. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2017) Louise Jopling's Art School and the Slade Model. Association for Art History Annual Conference, Loughborough, UK, 6-8 April 2017. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2016) Gender and Style in the Circle of James McNeill Whistler. Anxious Forms: Masculinities in Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century, Glasgow, UK, 28 Oct 2016. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2016) Louise Jopling in the studio. British Women Artists 1760-1960 Sub-Group Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 26 May 2016. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2014) Collecting women’s works: Jopling, the Rothschilds and their circle. The Collector and his Circle: New Research in the History of Collecting, London, UK, 1-2 July 2014. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. (2014) Researching 'Overlooked' Artists: Louise Jopling (1843-1933). British Art Network: Overlooked Victorian Artists, Manchester, UK, 16 Jan 2014. (Unpublished)

Exhibitions

de Montfort, P. (2021) Whistler: Art and Legacy. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, P. (2018) Whistler and Nature. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, P. (2015) Louise Jopling: Artist and Teacher. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, P. (2013) Whistler and Watercolour. [Exhibitions]

Website

de Montfort, P. (2021) James McNeill Whistler: nature and industry. [Website]

Willsdon, C. and de Montfort, P. (2021) Whistler Nature and Science. [Website]

de Montfort, P. (2010) Louise Jopling (1843-1933) [online 2010- ]. [Website]

de Montfort, P. (2006) Exhibition Culture in London 1878-1908 [online 2003-10]. [Website]

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Grants

  • Lunder Foundation (Sept 2015; £900) PI; Whistler research 
  • SCCA Research Committee (Sept 2015; £550) PI; Whistler research
  • SCCA Research Committee (May 2015; £355) PI; Jopling publication costs
  • NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Japan Broadcasting Corporation): (Sept 2014; £1800) CI; Whistler exhibition costs
  • OPEN - Oil Paintings Expert Network (April 2013-May 2014; £38,898) CI

Supervision

I welcome enquiries about potential M.Res or PhD projects in any area relating to my research interests.

  • Astrom, Kristina
    Liminal Play: Inter-art relations between Stéphane Mallarmé and James McNeill Whistler
  • Macleod, Jenny
    ‘Scottish Women Etchers of the Etching Revival, 1880-1930’
  • Wu, Yunong
    Global Transformation and Regional Reception: Collecting Practice of Mounted Chinese Porcelain in 19th-Century Britain

Teaching

  • Level 1 History of Art programme (team taught)
  • ‘Artists and the Art Market in Britain’ (L3, Junior Honours).
  • ‘Women, Art and Audience 1830-1914’ (L3, Junior Honours).
  • Portfolio core course (L3, Junior Honours, team taught).
  • Methodology core course (L3, Junior Honours, team taught).
  • Postgraduate taught courses (History of Collecting and Collections).

Additional information

Administration

  •  Level 1 Co-convenor
  • Manage Graduate Teaching Assistants
  • Exams Co-convenor (2008-15)
  • Convenor, Mlitt in History of Collecting and Collections (2012-15) 

External Responsibilities

  • Visiting Fellow, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Whistler Criticism Digitisation Project, Augustana College, Illinois, USA.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Whistler Society, London (http://www.whistlersociety.org/)
  • External Examiner, MA and PG Diploma in History and Business of Collecting, University of Warwick and Sir John Soane Museum, London.
  • Academic Adviser (2013-14), Oil Paintings Expert Network, (partnership between Public Catalogue Foundation (http://www.thepcf.org.uk) and University of Glasgow). 

Online Research Projects

New publication

Conference papers and talks 

  • de Montfort, P., ‘Louise Jopling’s Studio Spaces’ (1880s-1914). A Studio of One’s Own: British Women Artists 1750-1950 Sub Group Meeting, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (May 2016)
  • ‘Louise Jopling: an online catalogue,’ Whistler International Colloquium, University of Glasgow, (Jun 2015).
  • ‘Collecting women’s works: Louise Jopling, the Rothschilds and their circle,’ The Collector and his Circle symposium, Institute of Historical Research and Wallace Collection, London (July 2014)
  • TV broadcast: Whistler exhibition presentation for NHK TV production, Sunday Art Museum. NHK is the national Japanese public broadcaster. (Oct 2014).
  • Plenary lecture to mark opening, James McNeill Whistler: A Retrospective exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (Sept 2014).
  • ‘Louise Jopling,’ Overlooked Victorian Artists seminar, British Art Network (Tate Britain) and Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester (Jan 2014).
  • Curator’s talks, film and exhibition tours for exhibitions An American in London: Whistler & the Thames at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Addison Gallery, MA, USA and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (Oct 2013-Aug 2014).
  • ‘James McNeill Whistler and Watercolour: Making and Meaning,’ presentation and workshop session, Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism international symposium, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (Oct 2011). 

Exhibitions

  • Curator, Louise Jopling 1843-1933: Artist and Teacher, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (14 Mar-Sept 2015).
  • Academic consultant and catalogue author, James McNeill Whistler: A Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (13 Sept -16 Nov 2014) and Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (6 Dec 2014-1 Mar 2015).
  • Co-curator (with M. F. MacDonald), exhibition and catalogue project An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Addison Gallery, Andover, Mass., and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (Oct 2013-Aug 2014).
  • Curator, James McNeill Whistler and Watercolour: Making and Meaning, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (6 Sept 2013-23 Feb 2014).

 


Patricia de Montfort

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