Drawing on over 40-plus years working with major museums and public and private collections, frame historian and consultant Suzanne Smeaton will share a range of stories of specific frames and interesting 'behind the scenes' details regarding their design, how they were selected, who made the choices, how they were removed or repatriated. Examples include the quiet, unassuming black frame by a known maker that encloses a Rembrandt portrait, an Italian Renaissance frame that went empty for years and ended up enclosing a masterpiece, a frame that was chosen for John Singer Sargent's 'Madame X' and how and why it was selected, frames designed by artists for their own artwork and many more.

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Anne Higonnet, the Barbara Novak Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University. the widely reviewed Liberty, Equality, Fashion; the Women who Styled the French Revolution

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Bonus lecture courtesy of CT Ceramics Circle

Hanns Weinberg (1900-76) fled Germany in 1938 and settled in London, where in 1945 he opened The Antique Porcelain Company – a large shop in New Bond Street that sold carpets, furniture, sculptures, and predominantly porcelain. He became the most important dealer of antique porcelain in England and America in the second half of the twentieth century, with shops opened in New York in 1957 and in Zurich in 1972. The Antique Porcelain Company sold porcelain to every significant collector and to many important museums, from the Getty to the Met and the Louvre. In addition to porcelain, Weinberg also dealt in Renaissance jewels, gold boxes, Chinese jades, French furniture and more. This richly illustrated lecture will discuss some of the most significant objects that passed through Weinberg’s hands and which today are in some of the greatest collections in the world.

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