George Villiers Study Day
September 4 2025
Picture: leicestershirecollections.org.uk
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Leicestershire County Council Museum Services are hosting a study day on George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, at the Melton Carnegie Museum in Melton Mowbray on Thursday 18th September 2025. The study day follows new research and restoration on a previously neglected portrait of the Duke, which has now been attributed to Paul van Somer and dated to about 1619 (see above).
Here's a list of the speakers and topics covered:
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham;
- Dr Megan Shaw, University of Auckland, on Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham;
- Professor Karen Hearn, UCL, on the early portraits of George Villiers, including the little-known Melton Carnegie portrait of c.1619;
- Jon Sleigh, Learning Curator & Alison Clague, Senior Curator, Culture Leicestershire, on Villiers Revealed;
- Professor Maria Hayward, University of Southampton, on George Villiers’s clothing in the context of the Jacobean court.
Here's a video published on YouTube which explains more about the restoration of the painting.
