Philippa Glanville
Philippa Jane Glanville, OBE, FSA (born 16 August 1943),[1] formerly chief curator of the metal, silver and jewellery department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is an English art historian who is an authority on silver and the history of dining.[2]
Early life
She was the daughter of the Rev. Wilfred Henry Fox-Robinson and Jane Mary Home, and was educated at Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth, before going up to Girton College, Cambridge, where she read History, and taking a degree in Archives Administration at University College, London. While at Cambridge she took part in the archaeological excavations at Winchester conducted by Martin Biddle, later Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Oxford.
Career
After graduating, she joined the London Museum (later the Museum of London) as curator in the Tudor and Stuart department, from 1966 to 1972, and as head of department from 1972 to 1980. Her interest in the history of food was stimulated in 1968 by curating a London Museum exhibition on Tudor food celebrating 400 years of ownership of Loseley Park, Surrey by the More-Molyneux family. In 1980 she moved to the Victoria & Albert Museum as an assistant in the metalwork department, of which she was chief curator between 1996 and 1999. She was encouraged by the Director, Sir Roy Strong, to study the social history of silver and the hierarchy of status. This led her to increasingly examine the uses of silver at the table. Among her accomplishments at the V&A, she redisplayed their silver collection to reveal how historic meals were served. On leaving she was appointed Academic Director at Waddesdon Manor, the former Rothschild seat in Buckinghamshire, where she remained until 2003. There, she created exhibitions that placed objects in situ, sometimes with elaborate recreations of the foods served in them by historian Ivan Day. These included a display in the dining room intended to show how Baron Rothschild might have dined in the 19th century, when he resided there; as well as an exhibition showing the use of French 18th-century porcelain that forms a strength of the collection.[3]
Among the exhibitions she has curated or worked on are A King's Feast The Goldsmith's Art and Royal Banqueting in the 18th Century, (the Danish Queen's French service) at Kensington Palace in 1991, Versailles et les Tables Royales en Europe, 1993, Feeding Desire; design and the tools of the table 1500-2005, for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 2005 and Drink A History 1695-1920, for the National Archives in 2007.
She served on the Council for the Care of Churches (now the Church Buildings Council), 1997 - 2001, and the Westminster Abbey Fabric Committee, 1998 - . She is an assistant fellow of Warwick University, and a member of the Goldsmiths' Company and the Company of Arts Scholars.[4] She was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1968 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2015.
Personal life
She married Gordon Glanville in 1968. They have two sons and live in Richmond, Surrey.
Books
Philippa Glanville is the author or co-author of:
London in Maps (Yale University Press, 1982) (ISBN 0300029047). Paperback edition 1985 (ISBN 0300034741)
Silver in England (Routledge, 1987) (ISBN 0415382157)
Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England (V&A Publications, 1986) (ISBN 1851770305)
Women Silversmiths (National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1990) (ISBN 094097911X)
Ed and contributor: Elegant Eating (V & A Publications, 2002) (ISBN 1851773371)
East Anglian Silver (John Adamson, 2004) (ISBN0952432226).
Britannia and Muscovy; (Routledge, 2006) (ISBN 0145379784)
Contributor: Feeding Desire (Assouline, 1991) (ISBN 284323 8455)
Contributor: Quand Versailles était meublée (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1993) (ISBN 2711827747)
The Art of Drinking (V&A Publications, 2007) (ISBN 1851775102)
Dinner with a Duke decoding food and drink at Welbeck Abbey 1695 - 1914 (Harley Foundation, 2010) (B009WPGQF4)
Co-author: Gold Power and Allure (Paul Holberton, 2012) (ISBN 1907372342)
Contributor: The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (OUP, 2015) (ISBN 0199313393)
Publications
Numerous articles in Antiquaries' Journal; Apollo; Burlington Magazine; Country life; NADFAS Magazine; Silver Society Journal; World of Interiors, &c.
References
- ↑ Who's Who. 2016.
- ↑ Department for Culture, Media and Sport (12 May 2010). "Phillipa Granville - RCEWA appointment" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ↑ Art Fund. "Meet our trustees". Art Fund.
- ↑ "The Georgians are coming! Philippa Glanville Curates". London Silver Vaults.
External links
- The Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars, Past Master