Cocktails with a Curator: Stubbs's "Portrait of Warren Hastings"

In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” join Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon as he considers the life of statesman Warren Hastings, who is depicted in a small watercolor from about 1791 by the prominent British artist George Stubbs. Explore the tumultuous career of Hastings, from his tenure as governor-general of India to a decade-long trial in Westminster Hall upon his return to England. This week’s complementary cocktail is a gin and tonic garnished with a slice of lime.
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  • @garyadams3176
    @garyadams31764 жыл бұрын

    Please, when the time comes,, and it will, and you with the other curators go back to work within the new normal, I do so much hope this will continue. I look forward to it every Friday. Thank you all so much and may good Fortune shine upon you.

  • @leslietucker2656

    @leslietucker2656

    4 жыл бұрын

    I second that. Xavier F. Salomon is a cultural treasure and so is this program. Thank you Frick Collection for bringing this to us.

  • @goodboybuddy1
    @goodboybuddy14 жыл бұрын

    You have no idea how much one values your sensitive and erudite commentary on a simple small watercolor. What a treat. Now I shall enjoy a well deserved g&t!

  • @billmcconville9980
    @billmcconville99803 жыл бұрын

    A great book and a wonderful presentation by X. Much appreciated.

  • @EricaNernie
    @EricaNernie2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Xavier. I enjoyed the Dalrymple book and to see the portraits of Warren Hastings here was a delight. Thank you.

  • @beverlyfletcher4458
    @beverlyfletcher44583 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating and comprehensive.

  • @burnsport1
    @burnsport13 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic summary of Hastings and loved the description of the portrait in the middle of the video

  • @maraymond1
    @maraymond14 жыл бұрын

    great to watch each week

  • @irenelofstrom1270
    @irenelofstrom12704 жыл бұрын

    So happy that I discovered this series. Thank you much for doing this.

  • @jimmulkin1252
    @jimmulkin12524 жыл бұрын

    This series is excellent. Please consider an episode on Black artists, themes, or subjects in the collection. Thank you for bringing your wit and erudition to us each week.

  • @conniemiller4352
    @conniemiller43524 жыл бұрын

    Once again, a highlight of the week. So interesting, so informative. Thank you.

  • @loiskirsh6165
    @loiskirsh61654 жыл бұрын

    Thank You for this fascinating lecture on how commerce and art intersect; it reveals how colonialism enabled the establishment of great British and European museums - filled with treasures obtained by commercial endeavors. Xavier Solomon is as much a treasure as the art he describes. I hope this series continues after Covid-19 disappears. It is truly an example of making the very best of an unpleasant and difficult situation.

  • @TheGaucha7
    @TheGaucha74 жыл бұрын

    always so informative and well presented! Thank you ! I totally agree with other comments on "Cocktails with the Curator " and Travels with the Curator" series I hope they will continue ! Once again Grazie Mille !

  • @michaelcolborne2856
    @michaelcolborne28564 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Xavier. I look forward to your talks every week!

  • @arthurmanzi
    @arthurmanzi4 жыл бұрын

    Every one of these chats over cocktails has been a delight-thank you! They're perfect nets into which you've collected so much fascinating detail, so beautifully chosen. I look forward to them every week, as I do the Travels with... and the Frick Five. I would love to hear the Curator speak about the wall decorations of the Boucher Room, especially my favorite: the baby Medea. Thanks again.

  • @4sstg
    @4sstg4 жыл бұрын

    This series from the Frick has sustained me during this time of plague. I am fond of all the curators, but Mr. Solomon is especially engaging to me. I hope you will continue this series. Although many places are opening, I am not trusting of the the proported safety. I will be home, pretty much, and looking for you tube videos to keep me going.

  • @epluribusunum1460
    @epluribusunum14604 жыл бұрын

    May I suggest that your communications staff reach out to the online education world and offer all of your Frick Collection videos as resources? I can imagine these excellent programs - all of them - opening students’ understanding of historical immediacy. As a museum hound who now visits only in the virtual world, I am so grateful for this content, it is more than I could have ever received from any of my beloved in-person visits. Your work is inspirational and incredibly enriching.

  • @heidir6715

    @heidir6715

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for watching and writing in. I am head of Communications and very much appreciate your comment. We agree, and have been reaching out in the manner you suggest and will continue to do so. We've also been offering virtual visits to school groups via our Education team (more details on our website). Have a nice weekend...and stay tuned....

  • @gillianpeebles9519

    @gillianpeebles9519

    4 жыл бұрын

    Very good idea.

  • @janewoodin145

    @janewoodin145

    4 жыл бұрын

    K P I so enjoy these well thought out and researched conversations. Please continue them if possible From a Cape Cod fan

  • @roniquebreauxjordan1302

    @roniquebreauxjordan1302

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities...

  • @lynettemichel9654
    @lynettemichel96544 жыл бұрын

    Time well spent, once again your choice of art work has led to a significant connection between, the sitter, and the artist. This program widens, once again, my appreciation for the power of art as a means to better understand, place, time and culture. Thank you

  • @dawnjackson1802
    @dawnjackson18024 жыл бұрын

    Words cannot describe the value to me of these art history lessons. We have visited The Frick more than once, but now are much better prepared to comprehend the background of pieces of art. Thank you from Elizabeth Fraser, currently sequestered in Arizona.

  • @alixnicoll6280
    @alixnicoll62804 жыл бұрын

    This is such a wonderful treat each Friday - I really look forward to it and relish the information and insight into these works of art - It makes me wish that this could go on and on - selfish I know but living on the West Coast of Canada I am not sure when I will be able to return to NY and the Frick - the first museum I remember being taken to in NY.

  • @erickwilberding5786
    @erickwilberding57864 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this comprehensive, thoughtful, and erudite episode. I also hope that the series continues in some manner after the crisis.

  • @margaretspain2127
    @margaretspain21274 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! Glad I found you!

  • @rachelaizen4229
    @rachelaizen42294 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your great talks!

  • @elizabethkiff9162
    @elizabethkiff91624 жыл бұрын

    Another enjoyable talk; thank you so much.

  • @PaulLewey
    @PaulLewey4 жыл бұрын

    Another Fantastic talk and video, these Cocktails with a Curator are very Informative. Thank you ever so much.

  • @gillianpeebles9519
    @gillianpeebles95194 жыл бұрын

    Although I emerged from Lockdown last week , I have been so much enjoying becoming reacquainted with the Frick that you and Amy have become essential viewing. I was delighted to see Watteau’s Fêtes Vênitiennes on the “Travels with ...” strand. It’s one of my favourites. Gillian, Scotland.

  • @SusanB06040
    @SusanB060404 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Fascinating.

  • @tedlevey5932
    @tedlevey59324 жыл бұрын

    Once again a fascinating talk delivered in the most companionable and erudite fashion. Thank you Xavier for providing an thoughtful oasis of calm at a difficult time.

  • @zenocrate4040
    @zenocrate40404 жыл бұрын

    Great mini-lecture! Thank you so much!

  • @carlaroberts4969
    @carlaroberts49694 жыл бұрын

    Very informative, as usual, thanks for the tip about the book.

  • @jonandrews3528
    @jonandrews35283 жыл бұрын

    Excellent

  • @belkysherrera9047
    @belkysherrera90474 жыл бұрын

    I agree that this series should be extended to a more broader public. It is an efficient way of learning essential knowledge about historical contexts. The Frick Collection has been doing a great job that now is coming to a larger public. Please consider ways of extending the reach of your contribution. I can't way to go back to New York and see art presented in this series, which I have seen before, bit now with a new eyes and more perspective.

  • @maryjordan7649
    @maryjordan76493 жыл бұрын

    Love the history around the art at the Frick museum!

  • @johnhockenberry7422
    @johnhockenberry74224 жыл бұрын

    Such a treasure of treasuring treasures from fabulous Frickian friends never to be forgotten.

  • @isabelleloutrel4650
    @isabelleloutrel46504 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for these so interesting series.

  • @calevy7099
    @calevy70994 жыл бұрын

    Well done!

  • @MrNikonova
    @MrNikonova4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Thank you.

  • @herbwhite7011
    @herbwhite70114 жыл бұрын

    My wife Dawn & I enjoy this program so much. Thank you. From Tappahannock,VA.

  • @pelu22do
    @pelu22do4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting story, thank you.

  • @upperleftanon6762
    @upperleftanon67624 жыл бұрын

    Watching for the first time, from West Puget Sound, Washington State. This is so wonderful, THANK YOU so much for sharing this with all of us.

  • @meggallucci5300
    @meggallucci53004 жыл бұрын

    Seemed like a modest portrait but rendered larger than life in this interesting talk focused on a historical figure.

  • @judithdimitriu8696
    @judithdimitriu86964 жыл бұрын

    I am in Toronto, and all your three programs were a real help during isolation. Although the city is slowly opening, my age will limit the live activities, the courses that I attended are not there anymore also we do not have the famous museums that you have In New York. Please try to continue these activities, both you and Aimee, and maybe in the future you can charge for viewing it. That will help your museum and you will do a great civic duty Thanks Judy

  • @lucanardecchia2859
    @lucanardecchia28594 жыл бұрын

    We have enjoyed this new lesson and we have so much appreciated the words that you said as conclusion. We understand that you, using art and culture, are struggling for a better world. Thank you. Saluti da Roma.

  • @dottiejeffries939
    @dottiejeffries9394 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating. Moving. I had read the review of The Anarchy- and now will read the book. And I plan to read more about Warren Hastings. Dottie, Chicago.

  • @johnkirwan2111
    @johnkirwan21114 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating comment on Stubbs portrait of Warren Hastings. Recently I acquired a portrait of Billy Adams a county Clare gent who died 1815. The portrait style very much based on Stubbs portrait which probably became known to the anonymous Irish artist through the print of the original portrait which u understand was made in 1795. Wonderful lesson in art history. And so easy to listen. Great teaching. From kilkenny In Ireland, John K.

  • @joannecassidy6367
    @joannecassidy63674 жыл бұрын

    I spent a little time working in Mumbai in 2008 and got to experience a bit of the city. Your talk brought back some memories...I may look for a book on Warren Hastings to learn some more. Tx!

  • @motherofmike9648
    @motherofmike96484 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for such a wonderful series of talks, even if my 'cocktail' has to be a bedtime drink. 5 p.m. in NY is 10 p.m. in the UK! I particularly loved this week's talk on Sir Thomas More. The HD photograph of the painting is superb, showing every detail. I had no idea that you could see the individual grey hairs appearing on Sir T's chin. Keep safe. Wendy, Cambridge UK

  • @donaldmangel4732
    @donaldmangel47324 жыл бұрын

    Both of your series “Cocktails with a Curator “ and “Travels with a Curator” were great discoveries! I do appreciate your work in producing these episodes and the tasty drinks that you have coordinated with each! I was also curious about the print/painting that was behind you in the Hasting’s video. Are you able to tell me anything about it? Thank you so much

  • @renesagebien7046
    @renesagebien70464 жыл бұрын

    Hola from Key Biscayne, Fl. Cheers

  • @dawneabdulal-bari9313
    @dawneabdulal-bari93134 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! Shared ;->

  • @susprime7018
    @susprime70184 жыл бұрын

    It is difficult not to imagine what kind of puppy Stubbs would have drawn to represent this fellow, maybe a blond English cocker spaniel, which is a lovely dog.

  • @janetthomas8244
    @janetthomas82444 жыл бұрын

    So civilized!

  • @jamesmortimer4405
    @jamesmortimer44053 жыл бұрын

    Bombay Sapphire gin was created in 1987 by the Barcardi company of America

  • @tatyanachristensen3154
    @tatyanachristensen31543 жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️

  • @roniquebreauxjordan1302
    @roniquebreauxjordan13024 жыл бұрын

    Īnformative...🌎🌏

  • @roniquebreauxjordan1302

    @roniquebreauxjordan1302

    3 жыл бұрын

    Summer reading ordered📚✏

  • @maggietweddle1730
    @maggietweddle17304 жыл бұрын

    I am greatly enjoying your series. Please be more accurate with things like the Queen of England....it is more accurately called the United Kingdom ( at least for now )!!

  • @megenberg8
    @megenberg83 жыл бұрын

    3:09 resembles Dr. Fauci. ; )