Ithaca College

Jennifer Germann, Associate Professor of Art History, presented an invited lecture, “Pictured Together? Constructions of Gender, Race, and Social Rank in the Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray.” 

 
Jennifer Germann, Associate Professor of Art History, presented an invited lecture, “Pictured Together? Constructions of Gender, Race, and Social Rank in the Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray,” at the University of York in York, U.K. on February 12, 2018.

The lecture incorporated her recent research into the life of Dido Belle and her representation in her portrait with her cousin, Lady Elizabeth. Dido and Lady Elizabeth were raised together at Kenwood House, in London in the late eighteenth century. The portrait is now at Scone Palace, Perth, Scotland, and still in the possession of the family. The paper traced the issues of genre in relation to the distinct social positions of both young women in Georgian Britain.

Professor Germann is currently a Fulbright Scholar in the History of Art Department at the University of York.