Missing Women: Art, community and history

Missing Women and With Dinah

2023 saw the culmination of two very special projects come to completion: ‘Missing Women’ and ‘With Dinah’.

The magnificent series of paintings by Francisco de Zurbaran depicting Jacob and his twelve sons have have hung in the Long Dining Room of Auckland Castle for over 250 years. Yet the women connected to Jacob are nowhere to be seen – or they were nowhere to be seen. Last year the missing women from the set of paintings were created and put on display in a temporary exhibition.

Sutherland Forsyth, Associate Director of Heritage & Engagement

Missing Women portraits in the Throne Room at Auckland Castle