All Outputs (34)

Othering the Ex-Libris: Israel Solomons (1860–1923) and the Invention of the Jewish Bookplate (2024)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2024). Othering the Ex-Libris: Israel Solomons (1860–1923) and the Invention of the Jewish Bookplate. In L. Jordanova, & F. Grant (Eds.), Where Words and Images Meet. London: Bloomsbury

Harping on patriotism: female education meets Orléanist ambition in Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust’s The Harp Lesson (1791) (2024)
Journal Article
Freund, A., & Stammers, T. (2024). Harping on patriotism: female education meets Orléanist ambition in Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust’s The Harp Lesson (1791). French History, 38(1), 58-82. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crad060

One of the largest and most striking submissions to the 1791 Salon, The Harp Lesson by Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust was an ambitious but spectacularly ill-timed intervention in revolutionary politics. It emerged from Félicité de Genlis’ remarkable e... Read More about Harping on patriotism: female education meets Orléanist ambition in Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust’s The Harp Lesson (1791).

Before the Visual Turn: Twentieth-Century Historians and the Uses of Art (2023)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2023). Before the Visual Turn: Twentieth-Century Historians and the Uses of Art. In J. Fox, & V. Simoniti (Eds.), Art and knowledge after 1900: Interactions between modern art and thought. Manchester University Press

Materializing France in exile: Henri, duc d’Aumale, the Orléans family and the transnational politics of collecting c. 1848–80 (2023)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2023). Materializing France in exile: Henri, duc d’Aumale, the Orléans family and the transnational politics of collecting c. 1848–80. French History, 37(4), 442-467. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crad048

Between the 1848 Revolution and the Franco–Prussian War, the fallen Orléans dynasty lived in the western suburbs of London. Deprived of the throne, Louis-Philippe and his sons struggled to uphold their dignity and credentials as a ruling house. In th... Read More about Materializing France in exile: Henri, duc d’Aumale, the Orléans family and the transnational politics of collecting c. 1848–80.

Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c.1848–1870 (2023)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2023). Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c.1848–1870. In P. Stewart, & C. M. Anderson (Eds.), Connoisseurship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923587.003.0005

This chapter asks: how far can we better understand the function and meaning of museums by a history of what they did not acquire? It explores the extraordinarily rich accession records for the Louvre, working through the often eccentric postbag of l... Read More about Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c.1848–1870.

Introduction: The Fall and Rise of the Psychology of Collecting: Historiographical Reflections (2023)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2023). Introduction: The Fall and Rise of the Psychology of Collecting: Historiographical Reflections. In M. Woźniak-Koch (Ed.), Mapping Art Collecting in Europe, 1860-1940: Eastern and Western Sociocultural Perspectives (1-26). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657795437_002

Jewishness, antiquity and civilization (2022)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2022). Jewishness, antiquity and civilization. Journal of the History of Collections, 34(3), 427-440. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhac006

Alfred Mond (1868–1930), 1st Baron Melchett, was a towering figure in early twentieth-century politics and economics, but his significance as an art collector has never been acknowledged. Like his brother, Robert, he has been overshadowed by the stat... Read More about Jewishness, antiquity and civilization.

Introduction: Bildung beyond borders: German–Jewish collectors outside Germany, c.1870–1940 (2022)
Journal Article
Stammers, T., & Hilary, J. (online). Introduction: Bildung beyond borders: German–Jewish collectors outside Germany, c.1870–1940. Journal of the History of Collections, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhab059

Collecting and the Contemporary Antiquarian: Documenting the Present in Fin-de-Siecle Paris (2021)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2021). Collecting and the Contemporary Antiquarian: Documenting the Present in Fin-de-Siecle Paris. In J. Wright, & A. Fryxell (Eds.), Time on a Human Scale: Experiencing the Present in Europe, c.1860-1930 (121-155). Oxford University Press

Delecluze’s Augustus And Cinna: Painting and Performing Rome at the End of the Napoleonic Empire (2021)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2021). Delecluze’s Augustus And Cinna: Painting and Performing Rome at the End of the Napoleonic Empire. In M. C. Potter (Ed.), Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century Historicism, Postmodernism, and Internationalism (48-69). Routledge

Women Collectors and Cultural Philanthropy, 1850-1920 (2021)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2021). Women Collectors and Cultural Philanthropy, 1850-1920. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 31, https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.3347

Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) (2020)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2021). Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). In K. Hill (Ed.), Museums, modernity and conflict : museums and collections in and of war since the nineteenth century (15-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429295782-2

The aptly named année terrible 1870–1871 – which comprised the Franco-Prussian War, the Siege of Paris and the insurrection and civil war of the Paris Commune – had dramatic consequences for the conservation and dispersal of French works of art. The... Read More about Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).

The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Cultures in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 (2020)
Book
Stammers, T. (2020). The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Cultures in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108781268

La mondialisation de la Révolution française (vers 1930-1960) : origines et eclipse d'un paradigme historiographique (2020)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2020). La mondialisation de la Révolution française (vers 1930-1960) : origines et eclipse d'un paradigme historiographique. Annales (English ed. Online), 74(2), 297-335. https://doi.org/10.1017/ahss.2020.10

This article sketches an alternative narrative for the origins of global historiography on the French Revolution. It argues that the thesis of an “Atlantic Revolution” put forward by Robert Palmer and Jacques Godechot in the 1950s in fact grew out of... Read More about La mondialisation de la Révolution française (vers 1930-1960) : origines et eclipse d'un paradigme historiographique.

L’exception anglaise ? Constance Battersea et la philanthropie artistique des Rothschild d’outre-manche (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stammers, T. (2020). L’exception anglaise ? Constance Battersea et la philanthropie artistique des Rothschild d’outre-manche. In P. Prevost-Marcilhacy, & L. de Fuccia (Eds.), De la sphère privée à la sphère publique: les collections Rothschild dans les institutions publiques françaises

Jewish Collectors and Collecting: an Introduction (2019)
Journal Article
Davoli, S., & Stammers, T. (online). Jewish Collectors and Collecting: an Introduction. Journal of the History of Collections,

Old French and new money: Jews and the aesthetics of the Old Regime in transnational perspective, c.1860–1910 (2019)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2019). Old French and new money: Jews and the aesthetics of the Old Regime in transnational perspective, c.1860–1910. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 18(4), 489-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2019.1658945

At the dawn of the twentieth century, styles synonymous with the French Old Regime were hailed as the epitome of good taste. French fashions from the reigns of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI were an international luxury brand, the proliferation o... Read More about Old French and new money: Jews and the aesthetics of the Old Regime in transnational perspective, c.1860–1910.

Transmitting the French Revolution: A Compulsive History (2019)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2019). Transmitting the French Revolution: A Compulsive History. H-France salon, 11(18), 1-16

Historian, Patriot and Paragon of Taste: Baron Jean-Charles Davillier (1823–83) and the Study of Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century France (2018)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2018). Historian, Patriot and Paragon of Taste: Baron Jean-Charles Davillier (1823–83) and the Study of Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century France

From the Tuileries to Twickenham: The Orléans, Exile and Anglo-French Liberalism, c.1848–1880 (2018)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2018). From the Tuileries to Twickenham: The Orléans, Exile and Anglo-French Liberalism, c.1848–1880. The English Historical Review, 133(564), 1120-1154. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey269

Between the 1848 Revolution and the Franco-Prussian War, the Orléans dynasty relocated to the suburbs of London. For the Orléans as for the Bourbons and the Bonapartes, exile was a fundamental aspect of nineteenth-century royalism. Deprived of the Fr... Read More about From the Tuileries to Twickenham: The Orléans, Exile and Anglo-French Liberalism, c.1848–1880.