A talk on Tudor portraits moderated by Alexandra Ault, Society of Antiquaries, with Charlotte Bolland, National Portrait Gallery, Edward Town, Yale Centre for British Art and Lawrence Hendra, Philip Mould & Co.
Speakers:
Dr. Alexandra Ault (FSA) is the Head of Collections and Library at the Society of Antiquaries. She joined the Society from the British Library, where she was Lead Curator of Manuscripts (1601-1850) and has worked on major exhibitions, collection management and academic heritage projects. She started her career at Bonhams Auctioneers before moving to the National Portrait Gallery.
Charlotte Bolland is Senior Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, responsible for the acquisition, research and interpretation of portraits dating from the sixteenth century, with co-ordination of research activity across the Gallery. She joined the National Portrait Gallery in 2011 as Project Curator for the Making Art in Tudor Britain project and manages the display of the Tudor collection and provides guidance on Tudor portraiture to statutory bodies. She has curated a number of exhibitions at the Gallery, including The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered (2014), The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt (2017), and Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens (2024).
Dr. Edward Town (FSA) is the Associate Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut. His recent display “Loyalists and Sons of Liberty: America 250” runs to the end of the year at the YCBA. He is also the curator of “John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined” which opens on September 3 this year, and “Elizabethan Splendor: Portraiture in England 1580-1620” (Fall 2027). He has published extensively on British Art of the early modern period and previous edited volumes include: Painting in Britain 1500-1630 and Marking Time: People, Objects and Their Lives: 1500-1800.
Lawrence Hendra is Head of Research at Philip Mould & Company, which he joined in 2011 after graduating with a degree in Art History. Prior to working at the gallery, Lawrence worked for a number of years as an independent art dealer in the South-West working in conjunction with public galleries and museums as well as auction houses and private galleries. His expertise covers British art from the Tudor period to the present day. Over the years Lawrence has curated numerous exhibitions for the gallery including John Smart: A Genius Magnified (2014), Cedric Morris: Beyond the Garden Wall (2018), Love’s Labour’s Found: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture (2020) and Charleston: The Bloomsbury Muse (2020/21). In 2023 he was appointed Trustee of The Walpole Society, a charity established in 1911 which promotes the study of British art.