The MFAH hosts a live audience at the museum to watch and to participate in this daylong conference hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, England. A live stream link — so you can watch at home or on your mobile device from anywhere — will be made available here shortly before the program.

This event follows the museum's 38th Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium, held in October, about the former exhibition American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World. In the Shartle Symposium, art historical perspectives were blended with art conservation; in London, the focus is solely art historical, focusing on how two painters from the American colonies rose to the top of the British art world.

Schedule:

• 9:15 a.m. - Introduction by Mark Hallett, the Paul Mellon Centre
• 9:30 a.m. - American Adversaries video introduction by Emily Neff, Fred Jones Jr., Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, and Kaylin Weber, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• 10 a.m. - Break
• 10:15 a.m. - "Copley's Revolutions" by Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University
• 11 a.m. - "West's General Wolfe in 18th-Century France" by Stephane Roy, Carleton University
• 11:45 a.m. - Lunch break
• 12:45 p.m. - "Copley, West and John Boydell: New Mechanisms of Patronage in Late 18th-Century London" by Rosie Dias, University of Warwick
• 1:30 p.m. - "Displaying History: West's Gallery and the Great Room" by Kaylin Weber, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• 2:15 p.m. - Break
• 2:30 p.m. - "Out of Time, Out of Place: Copley's Last Pictures" by Sarah Monks, University of East Anglia
• 3:15 p.m. - "West and Shakespeare in Early 19th-Century Philadelphia" by Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
• 4 p.m. - Concluding remarks, Mark Hallett and Emily Neff