Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Eugene Barilo von Reisberg: ‘Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Portraiture in the Age of Social Mobility’

Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Portrait of Queen Victoria (1843, detail, collection of HM Queen Elizabeth II); Portrait of Princess Tatiana Yusopova (1858m detail, St Petersburg: The State Hermitage); Portrait of Mrs Philip Vanderbyl (1866, detail, private collection).

Eugene Barilo von Reisberg (Art History Program, School of Culture & Communication), PhD Completion Seminar: ‘Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Portraiture in the Age of Social Mobility’.

Wednesday  16 December 2015, 6:00pm

University of Melbourne (Parkville), Baillieu Library, Dulcie Hollyock Room.

Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Emily Wubben: ‘Artistic Souls: Baronne Madeleine Deslandes and her portrait by Edward Burne-Jones’

Edward Burne-Jones, Portrait of Baronne Madeleine Deslandes, 1895-96. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Emily Wubben, ‘Artistic Souls: Baronne Madeleine Deslandes and her portrait by Edward Burne-Jones’

Monday 1 December, 6:30pm.

Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Adam Bushby

Gentile Bellini (attr.), Portrait of Sultan Mehmet II (1480). National Gallery, London.

Adam Bushby, ‘El Gran Turco: Ottoman Turks in Venetian painting, 1453-1571′.

Monday 11 August, 6:30pm.

Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar: Vivien Gaston

Johann Zoffany, ‘Elizabeth Farren as Hermione in The Winter’s Tale'(c. 1780). National Gallery of Victoria, Everard Studley Miller Bequest.

Vivien Gaston, ‘Staying Alive: Johann Zoffany’s Portrait of Elizabeth Farren as Hermione in Shakespeare’s ‘A Winter’s Tale’, c. 1780’.

Johan Zoffany’s portrait of Elizabeth Farren as Hermione in Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale represents one of the most striking, controversial and memorable scenes in all of Shakespeare’s plays. It is also a portrait of an actress whose private and public lives were equally intriguing, one of a few highly successful women whose celebrity status enabled their radical upward mobility.