We are very pleased to announce a new fully funded AHRC CDP PhD studentship – applications are NOW OPEN. A Great Commerce in Curious Paintings: the role and practices of art dealers and agents in the reception and re-evaluation of pre-1500 European paintings in Britain 1800-1865 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship in collaboration with The…
Congratulations to Shir Kochavi for passing her PhD viva with minor corrections last week. Shir is the first of the CSAAM PhDs to graduate – her PhD is a fascinating study of the redistribution of Jewish Cultural Property and the art market in post WWII Europe and America – Well Done Shir! Here’s Shir with…
Following the successful finding of the early 18th century delftware plate in the ‘Where is it Now?’ theme in the Phillips of Hitchin archive, we have posted another 6 photographs of objects from the archive in the ‘Where is it Now?’ pages; do click on the relevant tab in the tool bar on the CSAAM website…
PhD student Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth has been invited as a Visiting Research Fellow to the Wintethur Museum and with the University of Delaware in America this Spring. The Winterthur Museum was founded by art collector and businessman Henry Francis du Pont and has an incredible collection of American and European decorative art, boasting over 90,000 objects….
As part of the various projects we are planning for the rich potential that the various Antique Dealer archives we have developed a project called ‘Where is it Now?’. You can follow the project by clicking on the ‘Where is it Now?’ tab, above, on the Centre for the Study of the Art and Antiques…
Museum Culture and the Art Market: Private Collecting and Public Responsibility it in the Contemporary Artworld The objective of this PhD studentship is to investigate connections between public museum practices, private collecting, and art market activity in the contemporary artworld. Questions concerning the social functions of collecting have become acute in light of the significant…
All this week ( August 22nd-26th) we have been cleaning and cataloguing the Phillips of Hitchin antique dealer archives at the Brotherton Library Special Collections (BLSC). Thanks to the BLSC and our small team of enthusiastic volunteers we have managed to make excellent progress on getting this important archive open to the public. Here are…
Creating The Bowes Museum: private collecting, public philanthropy and the art market in the public art museum in Britain and France 1830-1900 The School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and The Bowes Museum are pleased to announce a funded studentship for doctoral research, awarded under the…
The Antique Dealers Project Website www.antiquetrade.leeds.ac.uk The research project is seeking to draw attention to the changing nature of the antique trade over 100 years and once we have sufficient data, you will be able to investigate and, crucially, to visualise the trading the changes in the antique trade over time. The website will…
Thank you to everyone that came along to the Centre ‘lunch-launch’ yesterday – it was great to see some many people interested in the art & antiques market, and thank you all for the feedback, ideas, and observations on the future of the Centre and proposed activities. Thank you too to our student helpers on…
