Karen Hearn

Karen Hearn FSA is a British art historian and curator. She has Master's degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of London.[1] She is an Honorary Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University College London.[2] From 1992 to 2012 Hearn was the Curator of 16th & 17th Century British Art at the Tate where she curated major exhibitions on Tudor and Jacobean paintings, Anthony van Dyck, and Rubens. She has also curated exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery and the The Harley Gallery.[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2005.[1]

Select publications

  • 1995. Karen Hearn ed., Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630 (London: Tate, 1995).
  • 1998. "Henry Gibbs: Painter and Gentleman", Burlington Magazine (February 1998), 99-101.
  • 2004. "Merchant Patrons for the Painter Siberechts", in Galinou, Mireille (ed) City Merchants and the Arts 1670-1720. Wetherby.
  • 2004. 'A question of Judgement: Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford as Art Patron & Collector' in Edward Chaney ed., Evolution of English Collecting (Yale, 2004).
  • 2005. Nathaniel Bacon: Artist, Gentleman, Gardener. London, Tate Publishing.
  • 2009. "Lady Anne Clifford's "Great Triptych"", in Hearn, K. and Hulse, L. (eds) Lady Anne Clifford: Culture, Patronage and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Britain. Leeds. 1-24.
  • 2009. Karen Hearn ed., Van Dyck & Britain (London: Tate, 2009).
  • 2015. "'Picture-drawer, born at Antwerp': Migrant Artists in Jacobean London", in Painting in Britain 1500-1630: Production, Influences & Patronage. London, British Academy. 278-287.
  • 2015. Cornelius Johnson (London, Paul Holberton: 2015)
  • 2019. "'Wrought with flowers and leaves': Embroidery Depicted in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century British Portraits – the Era of Rubens", in Lieneke Nijkamp & Abigail D. Newman (eds) Undressing Rubens: Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp. London & Turnhout. 31-46.

References

  1. "Prof Karen Hearn". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  2. "Karen Hearn". University College London. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  3. "Karen Hearn". Women Also Know History. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
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