Philippa Jane Glanville (nee Fox-Robinson)
, 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
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The second eldest of eight children of the Rev. Wilfred Henry Fox-Robinson and Jane Mary Home, she 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
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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 and 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 increasingly to examine the uses of silver at the table. Among her accomplishments at the V&A, she redisplayed the museum's 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 the 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
, one of the strengths of the collection.
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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, Smithsonian Design Museum
, New York in 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 since 1998 has served on the
Westminster Abbey
Fabric Committee. She also serves as a vice-president of the
National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies
(NADFAS). She is an assistant fellow of
Warwick University
, a liveryman of the
Goldsmiths' Company
and a founder liveryman of 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
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She married Gordon Glanville in 1968, they were married until Gordon died in 2019. They had two sons James and Matthew and Philippa lives in Richmond, Surrey.
Her younger son, Matthew Glanville, is married to
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
, sister of the former House of Commons Leader
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Her youngest sister, Sarah, has
Down Syndrome
. A rare disorder that affects a person's chromosomes.
Books
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This bibliography lists books of which Philippa Glanville is the author or editor, or to which she has been a contributor.
- London in Maps
(
Yale University Press
, 1982) (
ISBN
0300029047
). Paperback edition, 1985 (
ISBN
0300034741
)
- Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England
(V&A Publications, 1986) (
ISBN
1851770305
)
- Silver in England
(Unwin Hyman, 1987,
Routledge
edition, 2005) (
ISBN
0415382157
)
- The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al Tajir Collection
Charles Truman
(preface by Philippa Glanville) (Christie, Manson & Woods, 1989) (
ISBN
9780903432368
OCLC
775322655
)
- Women Silversmiths
(with Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough) (
National Museum of Women in the Arts
, 1990) (
ISBN
094097911X
)
- Versailles et les tables royales en Europe: XVIIeme-XIXeme siecles
(contrib. Philippa Glanville) (Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1993) (
ISBN
2711827747
)
- Quand Versailles etait meuble d'argent
ed. Catherine Arminjon (contrib. Philippa Glanville) (Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1997) (
ISBN
9782711853571
)
- The Albert Collection: Five Hundred Years of British and European Silver
Robin Butler (ed. Philippa Glanville) (Broadway Publishing, 1999) (
ISBN
978-1-85149-478-1
)
- Elegant Eating
(editor and contributor) (V&A Publications, 2002) (
ISBN
1851773371
)
- East Anglian Silver
ed. Christopher Hartop (contrib. Philippa Glanville) (
John Adamson
, 2004) (
ISBN
978-0-9524322-2-7
)
- Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of
Rundell & Bridge
1797-1843
ed. Christopher Hartop (contrib. Philippa Glanville) (
John Adamson
, 2005) (
ISBN
978-0-9524322-3-4
OCLC
61424651
)
- Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005
(contrib. Philippa Glanville) (
Assouline
, 2006) (
ISBN
2843238455
; paperback
ISBN
2843238471
)
- Britannia and Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars
ed. Natalya Abramova and Olga Dmitrieva (contrib. Philippa Glanville) (
Yale University Press
, 2007) (
ISBN
978-0-300-11678-6
)
- The Art of Drinking
(ed. Philippa Glanville and Sophie Lee) (V&A Publications, 2007) (
ISBN
1851775102
)
- A Noble Feast: English Silver from the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Christopher Hartop (contrib. Philippa Glanville) (
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
in association with
John Adamson
, 2007) (
ISBN
978-0-917046-83-4
)
- Dinner with a Duke: Decoding Food and Drink at Welbeck Abbey 1695-1914
(
Harley Foundation
, 2010) (ASIN B009WPGQF4)
- Gold: Power and Allure
ed. Helen Clifford (contrib. Philippa Glanville) (Paul Holberton, 2012) (
ISBN
978-0-907814-86-3
)
- The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
(contrib. Philippa Glanville) (
OUP
, 2015) (
ISBN
0199313393
)
Other publications
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Numerous articles in:
Antiquaries' Journal
;
Apollo
;
Burlington Magazine
;
Country Life
;
NADFAS Magazine
;
Silver Studies
(formerly the
Silver Society Journal
);
World of Interiors
, &c.
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