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Enlightened Women: British women artists in the eighteenth century, 9 September 2022

The Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, London, W1J 0BD
9 September 2022
Convened by Lara Nicholls

A young woman dressed in an immaculate white dress stands between two figures who can be identified as the personifications of music and painting.
Angelica Kauffman RA, Self-portrait of the artist hesitating between the arts of music and painting, 1794, Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire © National Trust/Creative Commons

‘Enlightened women: British women artists in the eighteenth century’ was a collaborative curatorial workshop comprising of a keynote address and a series of short form papers in the morning followed by a workshop in the afternoon. The workshop aimed to devise a curatorial rational for a hypothetical exhibition about women and visual culture in Britain during the eighteenth century. This hypothetical exhibition would draw material from collections in the UK and Australia and an Australian iteration was held at The Australian National University in October.

The full programme can be read below: