Please join us on Wednesday, December 8, at 2PM EST at the Virtual Salon “Dahesh Prize Redux 2021.” This event will feature Lieske Huits and Sean Kramer, recipients of the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize at the eighteenth AHNCA/Dahesh Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art held in September 2021, moderated by J. David Farmer of the Dahesh Museum. Ms. Huits and Mr. Kramer will re-present their research and discuss their work and future plans. The Virtual Salon series is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/daheshredux2021.

David Farmer, Moderator: Dr. Farmer was appointed Director of the Dahesh Museum in 1993 and, after a short break for retirement, he returned to the museum as Director of Exhibitions. He specializes in the art of Early Modern Northern Europe and its revival in the 19th century, most notably in Belgium.

Lieske Huits will present “Excellent Modern Ornaments, Models of Ancient Production: The Art Journal’s Illustrated Catalogues and the Logic of Appropriation in Nineteenth-Century Revival Jewelry.” Ms. Huits is a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Cambridge in collaborative partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her thesis “A New Visual Narrative of Nineteenth-Century Historicism” reconsiders the concept of historicism in the decorative arts, focusing primarily on the reception of historicist artifacts in nineteenth-century illustrated print media. She has received research grants from the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History in Florence and the Leiden University Fund’s International Study Fund.

Sean Kramer will present “Heroism and Difference: Regarding the Indigenous Soldier in Alphonse de Neuville’s The Last Cartridges (1873).” Kramer is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, studying nineteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. His dissertation focuses on imagery of the common soldier through the lenses of manhood and medicine, on the one hand, and race and imperialism, on the other. His research has been supported by the University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School, International Institute, and Museum of Art, as well as the Yale Center for British Art. His essay “Undressing the Army: Hygiene and Hierarchies in Eugène Chaperon’s The Shower in the Regiment (1887)” will appear later this year in Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art (Leuven University Press).