Ruth Borchard Explained

Ruth Borchard
Birth Date:1910
Death Date:2000
Occupation:Writer, biographer
Nationality:British
Notableworks:John Stuart Mill

the Man

Ruth Borchard (1910–2000) was a British writer who created a collection of self-portraits made by 100 modern British artists, the Ruth Borchard Collection.

A notable work of Borchard's was John Stuart Mill: the Man.

Early and personal life

Borchard was a cousin of the mother of Deborah Layton, survivor and author of Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple.[1]

Career

She assisted Friedrich Hayek on John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor and later wrote John Stuart Mill: the Man, published in 1957,[2] [3] which was considered by R.J. Halliday to be "an amusing and perceptive account of Mill's life and personality." She wrote of his romantic interest, Harriet Taylor, her intellectual influence, and his conversion to Benthamism.[4] [5]

Borchard Collection

Borchard collected 100 self-portraits of British artists.[6] [7] She started out offering 10–15 guineas[8] and then 21 guineas for artists to provide their self-portraits. Jean Cooke responded to the request saying "Dear Miss Borchard, I am not a feminist but to have only three women painters out of 91 makes rather poor odds so 21 gns it is. Are you going to come and pick up the painting?" The commission was half her usual rate.[9] Of the total 100 self-portraits, there were only five women.[10] In response to Borchar's request, Michael Ayrton wrote: "I will accept the 21gns and I much admire anyone who can obtain so many works for no more than that figure."[11]

Borchard began collecting works in 1958 and by 1971 had 100 self-portraits. The British or British-based artists made self-portraits in oil, gouaches, watercolours and one was a bas relief. She wrote that "One of the greatest satisfactions of my collection: about one in three of the self-portraits were done because of my request. They would not exist but for that it makes me feel creative at one remove."[12] The collection was shown at the 2003 British Art Fair at the Commonwealth Institute in London.[13]

She collected works of:

Thomas Newbolt, a 62-year-old artist from Cambridge, won the 2013 Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition Award which included a £10,000 prize. Joanna Brenden, Ruth Borchard's granddaughter presented the award to Newbolt. Celia Paul won first prize in 2011.[16]

Published works

Books

Articles

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Deborah Layton. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple. 18 August 2010. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 978-0-307-57513-5. 27.
  2. Book: Alan O. Ebenstein. Alan O. Ebenstein. Friedrich Hayek: A Biography. 15 April 2003. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-18150-9. 186, 374.
  3. Book: Maria H. Morales. Mill's The Subjection of Women: Critical Essays. 17 January 2005. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-1-4616-4014-1. 48.
  4. Book: R. J. Halliday. John Stuart Mill. December 2003. Psychology Press. 978-0-415-32686-5. 19.
  5. Book: Susan Moller Okin. Women in Western Political Thought. registration. 1979. Princeton University Press. 0-691-02191-0. 363.
  6. Book: Ruth Borchard. Piano Nobile (Gallery). The Ruth Borchard Collection of One Hundred Self-portraits. 2004. Piano Nobile Fine Paintings.
  7. Web site: Artists. The Ruth Borchard Collection. 6 January 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130811224819/http://ruthborchardcollection.co.uk/artistmenu/artists1-21.html. 11 August 2013. dmy-all.
  8. Book: Catherine Lampert. Richard Kendall. Euan Uglow. Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné. 2007. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-12349-4. 77.
  9. Web site: Jean Cooke, obituary . The Guardian . 28 August 2008 . 6 January 2014 . Philip Vann.
  10. Web site: Exhibition of Jean Cooke Ra paintings . The Journal . 28 July 2010 . 6 January 2014 . Tamzin Lewis.
  11. Web site: History . The Ruth Borchard Collection . 6 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140106233558/http://ruthborchardcollection.co.uk/history2/history2.html . 6 January 2014 . dmy-all .
  12. Web site: History. The Ruth Borchard Collection. 17 February 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140622170848/http://ruthborchardcollection.co.uk/history2/history1.html. 22 June 2014. dmy-all.
  13. Book: Catherine Lampert. Richard Kendall. Euan Uglow. Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné. 2007. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-12349-4. 236.
  14. Web site: History 3 . The Ruth Borchard Collection . 6 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140106231452/http://ruthborchardcollection.co.uk/history2/history3.html . 6 January 2014 . dmy-all .
  15. Book: Philip Vann. Gerard Hastings. Keith Vaughan. 2012. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-1-84822-097-3. 10.
  16. Web site: The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition . The Ruth Borchard Collection . 6 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131207235958/http://www.ruthborchardcollection.co.uk/pages/competition.html . 7 December 2013 . dmy-all .
  17. Book: Philip Ward. The Book of Common Fallacies: Falsehoods, Misconceptions, Flawed Facts, and Half-Truths That Are Ruining Your Life. 13 December 2013. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated. 978-1-62087-336-6. 381.

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