The first woman to be appointed Governor of York’s Merchant Adventurers’ Hall is to have a completed portrait of her displayed in the Great Hall this Easter. Dr Delma Tomlin, the founder of the city’s National Centre for Early Music, was appointed to the role in 2022 – the first time a woman has held the position since its foundation in 1357.
In a break with tradition this new portrait will be a digital photo portrait rather than an oil painting, which is the method used to immortalise past Governors currently on display around the Hall. For the portrait, The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall commissioned Ashley Karrell to work with them to create this highly original work.
To reflect this new direction, we decided to take a different approach to commemorate the occasion and commissioned the award-winning Ashley Karrell to work with us. We hope that visitors will be as excited as we are by this historic photo portrait.” Ashley Karrell is the first black portrait photographer commissioned for the permanent collection of the stately home of Harewood House, with the series called Missing Portraits, featuring Arthur France MBE and David Harewood OBE.
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