Jack Hartnell discusses "Specimen, Surgeon, Self: Three Medical Portraits and Four Hundred Years." Hartnell is Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow​ at Columbia University.

Portraiture as Interaction: The Spaces and Interfaces of the British Portrait

Specimen, Surgeon, Self: Three Medical Portraits and Four Hundred Years

Recent scholarship on portraiture has become increasingly interested in its status as an interactive art form. Portraits often depict or invite an interactive relationship between sitters and spectators. In this conference, co-organized with the Yale Center for British Art, speakers explore this topic in relationship to British portraiture, of which The Huntington has an especially rich collection.

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Portraiture as Interaction: The Spaces and Interfaces of the British Portrait