A virtual awards celebration is scheduled for 1 December. “It brings to life so many female sitters, who have now been given their place in history for the first time,” says a statement from the judges including Alexander Marr, reader in the history of early Modern art, University of Cambridge, and Kate Heard, senior curator of prints and drawings at the Royal Collection Trust. Belsey’s publication includes almost 200 works newly attributed to the 18th-century British artist, along with updated information about his sitters as well as insights into how Gainsborough assimilated the style of the Old Masters into his painting. The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters by Hugh Belsey (published by Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) as the winner of the £5,000 award. A trailblazing publication on Thomas Gainsborough has won the 2020 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, a UK-based award for scholarly publications which “recognises excellence in the field of British art history”.Ī panel of seven judges picked Thomas Gainsborough.
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