DAY 1 (12 December 2019)
09.30 – 10.00 Registration and coffee/tea
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome and opening remarks by Elizabeth Prettejohn
10.15 – 11.25 Session 1 The Starting Point: Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddall)
Serena Trowbridge Elizabeth Siddall: Pre-Raphaelite Poet
Helena Cox Alžběta Siddallová and the Czech Rossetti
Natalie Reeve ‘An Hour Before the Day’: Medievalist Methodologies and the Book of Hours in Elizabeth Siddall’s Clerk Saunders
11.25 – 11.45 Break
11.45 – 12.55 Session 2 Other Female Artists
Cory Korkow Emma Sandys and Issues of Family Resemblance
Christine Neubauer The Art of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale in the Context of First-Wave Feminism
Susie Beckham Anna Alma-Tadema
12.55 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Session 3 The Iconic Faces
Brian Eaton Fanny Eaton: Did She See Herself as a Pre-Raphaelite Muse?
Suzanne Fagence Cooper Effie Millais (née Gray)
Marte Stinis Maria Zambaco in Bronze: L’Amour Irrésistible, Power, and Desire
15.10 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 16.30 Keynote 1 Kirsty Stonell Walker ‘No importance, no meaning, apart from Rossetti’: Fanny Cornforth’s Struggle for Biography in the Lives of Lovers and Others
16.30 – 16.35 Closing remarks and end of Day 1
DAY 2 (13 December 2019)
09.30 – 09.55 Coffee/tea and networking
09.55 – 10.00 Welcome to Day 2
10.00 – 11.00 Session 4 Out of the Shadows…
Nick Shaddick La Belle Anglaise and her Sisters: Clementina Maud Hawarden, Elite Performativity and International Realist Pictoriality
Anna Maria Barry Edith Hipkins: Artist and Collector
Debbie Innes Kate Faulkner and the Ionides Piano
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.00 Session 5 New Approaches
Hannah Squire Curating Beyond Ophelia: Only the Second Solo Exhibition of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall’s Work
Kimberly Wahl Practice and Portrayal: The Dress Cultures of Pre-Raphaelite Aestheticism
Robyne Calvert Dismantling Pre-Raphaelite Dress: Facts & Fictions in Women’s Artistic Satrorial Practices
Helen Victoria Murray Artist to Archetype: Reclaiming Pre-Raphaelite Women’s Narratives in Neo-Victorianism
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and networking
14.00 – 15.00 Open Discussion Session The Future
Includes talks by contemporary artists Marina Elphick and Margje Bijl, whose works respond closely to Pre-Raphaelite women and re-evaluate statuses as models and muses.
15.00 – 15.20 Break
15.20 – 16.20 Keynote 2 Jan Marsh Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Scholarly Horizons
16.20 – 16.35 Closing remarks for Day 2
Abstracts for each paper will be added here after the conference closes.
The programme can also be downloaded as a PDF here:
The conference is being generously supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Header image: Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Botticelli’s Studio: The First Visit of Simonetta Presented by Giulio and Lorenzo de Medici, 1922. Private collection. Image from Bonhams.
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art 