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DESCRIPTION:In this lecture duet\, partners in life and in research Carolin
 e Dakers and Neil Burton explore another partnership—between architect\, d
 ecorator\, and color theorist Owen Jones and the wealthy Victorian collect
 or Alfred Morrison.Alfred Morrison (1821–1897) was one of the most importa
 nt yet least-known Victorian collectors. He filled his houses at Fonthill 
 in Wiltshire and Carlton House Terrace in London with Chinese Imperial por
 celain\, Old Masters and modern paintings\, engraved portraits of famous m
 en and women\, coins and medals\, autograph manuscripts and objets d’art b
 y Europe’s leading enamelists and metalworkers. From the early 1860s he wa
 s the most significant private patron of the architect\, designer\, and co
 lor theorist Owen Jones and employed him to decorate the interior of his L
 ondon and country houses. Owen Jones (1809–1874) is now known only as the 
 author of the Grammar of Ornament\, published in 1856\, but in his lifetim
 e he was known as “Alhambra Jones” for his detailed and highly colored stu
 dies of the Moorish Alhambra Palace in Spain\, published in the 1840s\, an
 d as the man responsible for the painted decoration of the 1851 Great Exhi
 bition building. He trained as an architect and embraced the modern techno
 logy of the mid-nineteenth century in his use of iron\, glass\, and fibrou
 s plaster\, but his real skill was as an interior designer\, and he produc
 ed several spectacular interiors\, now all lost apart from the London mans
 ion of Alfred Morrison in Carlton House Terrace. While working for Morriso
 n at Fonthill\, Jones was able to study the fabulous collection of Chinese
  porcelain and his study bore fruit in Examples of Chinese Ornament\, whic
 h he published in 1867.After this pair of talks\, Dakers and Burton will d
 iscuss what happened to the reputations of Morrison and Jones after their 
 deaths.Dr. Caroline Dakers is professor emerita in cultural history at the
  University of the Arts London. She is currently working on British Artist
 s: The Popular View 1850–1950 for Princeton University Press and is a cont
 ributor to the forthcoming exhibition catalogue on Philip Webb (Bard Gradu
 ate Center). She edited and contributed to Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural 
 History (UCLPress\, 2018) and contributed to a conference on Owen Jones in
  Oxford (October 2024). She has written three books for Yale University Pr
 ess—Clouds: The Biography of a Country House (1993)\; The Holland Park Cir
 cle: Artists and Victorian Society (1999)\; and A Genius for Money: Busine
 ss\, Art and the Morrisons (2011). She is a fellow of the Society for Anti
 quaries and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Neil Burton is curren
 tly a director of the Architectural History Practice. He was previously a 
 historian with the Greater London Council Historic Buildings Division\, an
  inspector of Historic Buildings with English Heritage\, and the secretary
  of the Georgian Group. His books include Life in the Georgian City (with 
 Dan Cruikshank\, published by Viking) and Behind the Façade: The London To
 wn House Plan\, 1660–1840 (with Peter Guillery\, published by Spire Books)
 . He contributed a chapter on Alfred Morrison’s architectural works in Fon
 thill Recovered (UCL Press\, 2018) and contributed to a conference on Owen
  Jones in Oxford (October 2024). He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquar
 ies.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Wealth and Colour
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