Portraiture and the British Naval Officer, c.1740-1805

肖像画和英国海军军官，c.1740-1805

• 批准号: 1659197
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1659197
• 关键词: Portraiture; British; Naval; Officer; c.1740

British naval officers were key political, social and cultural figures during the eighteenth century, and their portraits have much to tell us about that context. The period addressed by the project saw profound changes in the Royal Navy as an institution including through the increased regulation of officers' education, appointment, progression, dress, conduct and rewards. This period also saw a dramatic expansion in the market for portraits in Britain as, thanks to new forms of status and wealth, a growing number of artists were called on to depict a wider group of potential sitters, including many members of the 'new' professions such as naval officers. For these individuals, portraits seem to have confirmed corporate belonging and adherence to institutional codes whilst also distinguishing the sitter from others, as officers and would-be officers sought to highlight their potential for the bold confident leadership sought within the Navy's fluid ranks. In turn, portraitists seem to have been pressed both to signify belonging and to innovate so that their sitters' images were sufficiently distinctive as officerial portraits and as works of art within a crowded art world. This spiral of imperial, institutional and artistic competition affected the practice and forms of portraiture throughout this period, and provides the underlying dynamic for the project in tandem with a broader concern to trace these portraits' historical reception/significance.The research questions raised by this project will be identified by the student in discussion with the supervisor(s) along with the case studies through which those questions will be addressed. The questions, approach and interpretation will be broadly art-historical, that is, concerned with the production, reception, dissemination and significance of the works in question within their contemporary context, with sitters' biographies playing an informing role. The case studies will be largely focused on artworks (paintings and prints) from the two Heritage Organisations, which between them hold an extraordinary array of naval officer portraits from the period.While pursuing their PhD research, the student will contribute to relevant collections-related research and events within the two Heritage Organisations, including assisting with public programmes relating to the new display of naval portraits within the Queen's House, Greenwich, in 2016; producing work on key portraits for authored publication on the NMM's collections website, and developing a digital exhibition or slide show on some aspect of the NPG's naval portraiture.

英国海军军官是十八世纪重要的政治、社会和文化人物，他们的肖像可以告诉我们很多有关这一背景的信息。该项目所涉及的时期见证了皇家海军作为一个机构发生的深刻变化，包括加强了对军官教育、任命、晋升、着装、行为和奖励的监管。这一时期，英国的肖像市场也急剧扩张，由于新的地位和财富形式，越来越多的艺术家被要求描绘更广泛的潜在模特群体，其中包括许多“新”职业的成员，例如海军军官。对于这些人来说，肖像似乎证实了企业归属感和对机构准则的遵守，同时也将拍摄者与其他人区分开来，因为军官和未来的军官试图强调他们在海军流动队伍中寻求大胆自信的领导力的潜力。反过来，肖像画家似乎被迫表达归属感和创新，以便他们的人物肖像作为军官肖像和拥挤的艺术世界中的艺术品足够独特。这种帝国、制度和艺术竞争的螺旋式影响了整个时期肖像画的实践和形式，并为该项目提供了潜在的动力，同时更广泛地关注追踪这些肖像的历史接受/意义。该项目提出的研究问题将由学生在与导师的讨论中确定，并通过案例研究来解决这些问题。问题、方法和解释将广泛地涉及艺术史，即关注相关作品在当代背景下的制作、接受、传播和意义，其中画作人物的传记将发挥信息作用。案例研究将主要集中在两个遗产组织的艺术品（绘画和版画）上，这两个组织收藏了这一时期的一系列非凡的海军军官肖像画。在攻读博士学位的同时，学生将为两个遗产组织内与藏品相关的研究和活动做出贡献，包括协助开展与 2016 年在格林威治女王宫新展示海军肖像相关的公共项目；制作关键肖像作品，以便在 NMM 的收藏网站上撰写出版物，并就 NPG 海军肖像的某些方面制作数字展览或幻灯片。