This interactive discussion with Dr. Karen Lipsedge will focus on two double portraits; David Martin’s, 'Lady Elizabeth Murray and Dido Belle', (1779) and a recently discovered seventeenth-century double portrait entitled, ‘Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies’ (1650/60?) to consider what the paintings reveal about conceptions of race, gender, social class, and space- pictorial, geographical, historical space and time, and between viewer, sitters and artists. The presenter will also pose wider questions about the value of exploring stories of peoples and objects that are often overlooked and left hiding in plain sight.
By asking questions of portraits we can start to undertake the important work of uncovering the intimate relationship between peoples, objects and the trans-Atlantic world; we can help paintings to talk, and we can make the time to listen to what they tell us.
This program is FREE. Bring a bag lunch to enjoy during the lecture. Lecture begins at 12:30 PM at Stenton Museum 4601 N. 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140.
Co-sponsored by Stenton Museum, Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, and Historic Germantown.