The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to Enlightenment, Leslie Primo (2025), with Miranda Kaufmann (EMPIRE LINES Live at the National Gallery, London)

About this episode

Leslie Primo and Miranda Kaufmann discuss the influences of migration and national identity on British art in a live episode from the National Gallery.

In this special episode, authors and historians Leslie Primo and Miranda Kaufmann join EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss migration, national identity, and the many heritages of Britain’s best-known artworks, drawing from the collections of the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery in London. This episode was recorded live at the Supporters’ House Salon at the National Gallery in London in October 2025. Find all the information in the first Instagram post: instagram.com/p/DPogN0mgvtF/ The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to Enlightenment by Leslie Primo is published by Thames & Hudson. Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery by Miranda Kaufmann is published by One World Publications. Both are available in all good bookshops and online. For more about National Trust properties, hear historian Corinne Fowler with visual artist and researcher Ingrid Pollard, linking rural British landscapes, buildings, and houses, to global histories of transatlantic slavery, through their book, Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain (2024): pod.link/1533637675/episode/9f4f72cb1624f1c5ee830c397993732e Watch the full video conversation…

People in this episode

Host: EMPIRE LINES

Guests: Leslie Primo, Miranda Kaufmann

Topics covered

• migration
• national identity
• heritage
• British art
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment

Keywords

• British art
• migration
• national identity
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment
• National Gallery
• heritage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Thames & Hudson, One World Publications

Products: Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery

Books & works: The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to Enlightenment, Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain, Palimpsest: Tales Spun From Sea And Memories

Places: National Gallery, London

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