The Magazine Antiques articles from June 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from June 2007

Founding Jamestown.(Current and coming)
June 1, 2007... The history of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 has had centuries of bad press, much of it deserved. The exhibitions celebrating the 400th anniversary this year, however, have benefited from a good deal of new research, a changing historical...

Celebrations elsewhere.(Current and coming)
June 1, 2007... Rule Britannia! Art, Royalty and Power in the Age of Jamestown is on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond through August 12. This exhibition views the founding of Jamestown as part of the English struggle for domination of the...

Harrison Bird Brown.(Current and coming)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Harrison Bird Brown was born and remained most of his life in Portland, Maine. His career, like that of many nineteenth-century American painters, followed the route of an apprenticeship (in his case as a house and ship painter), going out on...

Museum accessions.(Chatham Historical Society and its Atwood House Museum)
June 1, 2007... Vacationers in Chatham, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, this summer will find the Chatham Historical Society and its Atwood House Museum well worth a visit. The museum comprises the old Atwood House, which remains much as it was when it was built...

Constantine the Great.(Report from Europe)
June 1, 2007... Constantine the Great (c. 275-337) was born in Naissus (now Nis, Serbia). On the death of his father, the Emperor Constantius I, in 306, he became emperor of the western part of the Holy Roman Empire. In 313 he converted to Christianity and...

Security by design.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... It is said that money makes the world go around. Coins have been in use since ancient times, and the practice of clipping the precious metal from them arrived at approximately the same time. When banknotes were introduced in the West in the...

Hunterian Museum, bicentenary.(Report from Europe)(Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery)
June 1, 2007... Dr. William Hunter, a pioneering physician and teacher, was born in East Kilbride, south of Glasgow, in 1718. Originally destined for a career in the church, he became a successful and popular doctor with a speciality in obstetrics. In 1762,...

Wellcome Collection.(Report from Europe)(Sir Henry Wellcome)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), who was born in Wisconsin, moved to England in 1880 to form a partnership with a former schoolmate, Silas Mainville Burroughs. Together they established a hugely successful pharmaceutical company. Pursuing his...

A Venetian painter in London.(Books about antiques)
June 1, 2007... The reputations of talented artists precede them even to faraway locales, and seemingly always have. Hans Holbein the Younger was successful in both Switzerland and England; Leonardo da Vinci left Italy when he was invited to France by Francis...

Calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Classic New Mexico, 1898-1950: Paintings from Valley Collections"; June 1 to September 23. [??] "Views of Edo Japan:...

Antiques.
June 1, 2007... For whosoever commands the Sea, Commands the Trade: whosoever Commands the Trade of the world: Commands the Riches of the world and consequently the world it selfe. Sir Walter Ralegh, "A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors,...

Tracking James Giles on Worcester porcelain.(ceramic wares)(Brief biography)
June 1, 2007... The attribution of the decoration on eighteenth-century ceramic wares to the London atelier of James Giles has long been a source of fascination for collectors in the world of English ceramics. Many people have given much of their time and...

"The greatest genius that ever touched landscape": John Robert Cozens and English watercolor.(Cover story)
June 1, 2007... On New Year's Day 1798 the painter John Robert Cozens was buried in London, aged just forty-five. During his brief lifetime Cozens laid the foundation for the great experiments in landscape painting that followed and, even more remarkably, did...

The Robert Adam rooms in Philadelphia and New York City.
June 1, 2007... Pedestrians walking northwest from Piccadilly Circus in London soon encounter Berkeley Square, with its garden in the center and grand houses and offices along each side. William Kent (1685-1748) designed a splendidly proportioned town house...

English pictorial enamels: Battersea and Bilston enamels and their successors.
June 1, 2007... The manufacture of English pictorial enamels began in about 1750 in a factory on the premises of York House, in Battersea, then still a rural area outside London's boundaries. In 1756 the Battersea operation closed, but by the end of the decade...

Furniture by Gillows of Lancaster for Thomas English of Boston.
June 1, 2007... The eminent English cabinetmakers Gillows of Lancaster and London exported large quantities of furniture to the West Indies during the eighteenth century, and some of this furniture was probably reexported to North America through the colonial...

An English way with tea: silver containers of the eighteenth century.
June 1, 2007... There is an inordinate pleasure inherent in the collections of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. They present a quadripartite challenge: you have to deal with a diversity of styles, historical perspective, art history, and social history....

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
June 1, 2007... April 12-November 10. Newport, RI. "THE LOOK! DORIS DUKE'S DAY & EVENING WEAR." Rough Point, the home of heiress Doris Duke, features a magnificent collection of European art, Chinese porcelains, and Flemish tapestries. "The Look! Doris Duke's...

Handmade sterling silver.(Design notes)
June 1, 2007... In 1912 James Robinson established his eponymous antiques firm in New York City, where he specialized in Chinese porcelains and English silver. The firm first offered twentieth-century handmade sterling silver flatware in 1930 when it formed a...