Luke Uglow

curating @NPGLondon & lecturing @BirkbeckHoA

[Art UK @artukdotorg]

New story 📝

Read 'Jenny Saville's drawings in the long shadow of the Renaissance Madonna' 👉 https://t.co/qQWXR6C9mb

'One out of two (symposium)' by Jenny Saville (b.1970) © Jenny Saville. Private collection. 📷 @Gagosian

[Van Gogh Museum @vangoghmuseum]

The future of the iconic Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is in doubt, because the Dutch government is not sticking to the historic 1962 founding agreement it made with V.W. van Gogh, nephew of the artist, who was the owner of the whole collection. If the Dutch government does not honour its agreement, a scheduled €104 million major maintenance project cannot be financed, and the museum faces closure.
Read the full press release on our website: https://t.co/WYndV6rWMo

The New York Times article: https://t.co/EAk66v95iG

#SaveVanGoghMuseum #KeepVanGoghMuseumOpen #AfspraakIsAfspraak

[Art UK @artukdotorg]

Joshua Reynolds's famous portrait of Mai has begun a national tour 🖼️

The painting will travel to Bradford, Cambridge and Plymouth as part of a major new partnership project.

Find out more about this display on @bbgconnects 👉 https://t.co/ujbNdEyeV5

📷 @NPGLondon

[Lakeland Book Awards @LakesBookAwards]

‘Tradition…where we come from and what shapes us.’
The Bill Rollinson Association Prize for Landscape and Tradition introduced by our stalwart judge Lady Fiona Armstrong goes to
Steve Uglow with Seatoller

[Dr Freya Gowrley @Freya_Gowrley]

PUBLICATION DAY (sick bed edition)!
Although l've been struck down with some horrible lurgy, I couldn't be more delighted that FRAGMENTARY FORMS: A NEW HISTORY OF COLLAGE is out and in the world 💚✂️✨

[Peter Brathwaite @PeterBrathwaite]

Henry Louis Stephens: Victory! (1863). A runaway enslaved man becomes a Union soldier and is struck down fighting for Liberty. Reworked with roses, dishcloths and Union Flag fabric. #RediscoveringBlackPortraiture (2020).

[Dr Susie Beckham @SusieBecks]

So exciting to see all the Call for Papers go out for @forarthistory annual conference at @UniOfYork in 2025. @Hosmeriana and I are convening a panel on The Artist as Art Historian (unofficial poster below). Full panel abstract (+ others!):
https://t.co/QkuMs4PzFF

[Apollo Magazine @Apollo_magazine]

A new biography of Aby Warburg places his work in the intellectual contexts of his time, writes @UglowLuke

[Apollo Magazine @Apollo_magazine]

Being married to Henry VIII was a hazardous business but, as @NPGLondon shows, all six queens have lived on in popular memory and the artistic imagination

[Peter Brathwaite @PeterBrathwaite]

My recreation of Alexandre Francois Girardin’s portrait of Toussaint L’Ouverture from c 1804 (well, probably Toussaint) is now on display in Room 10, 'Portraying Colonial Expansion and Experience’ @NPGLondon, as part of a film feat. contemporary interpretations of L’Ouverture.

[Sir John Soane's Museum 🏛️🖼️ @SoaneMuseum]

Soane’s comparative drawings create the most surreal architectural visions! 🤯

Created to illustrate his lectures at @RoyalAcademy, they juxtapose different celebrated buildings – often a famous structure from antiquity, with a London landmark that students would recognise. ✍️

[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens opens 20 June.

👑 Don’t miss out: https://t.co/Pem9Qr0wgV

🎨 Katherine Parr (c.1547) attributed to Master John. Photograph: Fraser Marr Photography © Private Collection, London

[Tate @Tate]

'Turner never shirked the dark side of his times: the lust to rule, the poverty and oppression. But he responded intensely to its possibilities.' - Historian Jenny Uglow
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🖼️ ​#JMWTurner born #OnThisDay 1775, Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, exhibited 1842.

[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

Our #PortraitOfTheDay is a rather charming depiction of a man and his horse.

The sitter in question is Robert Bakewell, who was a stockbreeder from the 18th century.

🎨 by John Boultbee, circa 1788-1790 © National Portrait Gallery, London

[Royal Museums Greenwich @RMGreenwich]

‘Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin’ was painted in the early 1740s by William Hogarth. This is one of Hogarth’s most complex conversation pieces and its meaning has long mystified art historians. (1/5)

[The Warburg Institute @Warburg_News]

'John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion' explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance.

Watch this Renaissance Lives talk with the author, Andrew Hadfield, in conversation with @BillSherman_

Watch here: https://t.co/rIrU8bHN4p @reaktionbooks

[John Hodgson @JohnHodgsonUoM]

One of my favourite Ravilious engravings from White's Selborne, though so many to choose from.

[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born #onthisday in 1806.

Tell us, what’s your favourite line or lyric about love? 💗

🎨 by Michele Gordigiani, 1858 © National Portrait Gallery, London