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Fashion and Furniture at the Williamsburg Forum
February 12, 2009 | The Antiques Forum at Colonial Williamsburg, now in its sixty-first year and always eagerly anticipated by collectors, curators, and scholars alike, was held at the Williamsburg Lodge from January 31 to February 6. Some 395 people gathered to hear lectures, attend tours, and network with friends and colleagues over various receptions and dinners. Among the most well received of the talks were the architectural historian Jeffrey Klee's on Quaker architecture in New Jersey, and Nicholas Vincent's on American pier tables. Vincent, a research assistant in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discussed the evolution of and regional distinctions between nineteenth-century pier tables, which reached their peak of popularity in the 1840s. One forum attendee from Fredericksburg, Virginia, commented: "I know of at least four pier tables on the market in Fredericksburg that can be had for $300 to $400. Now I'll go back and take a closer look."
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William Holman Hunt in Toronto
The nineteenth-century English Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt is the subject of an exhibition opening February 14 at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto entitled Sin and Salvation: Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision. More than sixty works will be on view including some of Hunt's most iconic paintings-The Awakening of Conscience, The Light of the World, Isabella and the Pot of Basil-as well as works by his fellow Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais and their associates Arthur Hughes and Ford Maddox Brown.
Gemellion, Artist unknown, Limoges, France, 13th century Champlevé Enamel on Copper, 8 7/8” diameter Collection of The Walters’ Art
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