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Professor Rosemary Sweet
University of Leicester
Rosemary Sweet has published widely on aspects of eighteenth-century urban culture and politics. Her most recent book, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2004), is a study of antiquarian culture in the long eighteenth century. She is currently studying British travellers in Italy and their responses to Italian cities and antiquities.
www.le.ac.uk/hi/people/sweet.html
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Dr Paul Laxton
University of Edinburgh
Before moving to Edinburgh, Dr Paul Laxton lectured in the Department of Geography at Liverpool University from 1969 to 2002. His major research interests include the history of cartography and the history of British and American cities from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.
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Dr Elizabeth Barker
Picker Art Gallery
Dr Elizabeth Barker is the co-curator of the exhibition. She completed her Ph. D. thesis, A very great and uncommon genius in a peculiar way’: Joseph Wright of Derby and Candlelight Painting in Eighteenth-Century Britain for New York University in 2003. From 2000 to 2005 she was a curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and she is currently Director of the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, New York. She was co-curator of the Samuel Palmer exhibition in London and New York 2005. Her article Documents relating to Joseph Wright of Derby is due to appear in the Walpole Society Journal, 2007.
picker.colgate.edu/information.html
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Professor Ludmilla Jordanova
Kings College, London
Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of Modern History, King’s College, London, and a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London. She works on the (very) long eighteenth century, and is especially interested in the integration of visual and material evidence into historical practice. Her publications include Defining Features: Scientific and Medicine Portraiture 1660-2000 (2000) and History in Practice (2nd edition, 2006).
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/history/about/staff/jordanova.html
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Dr Matthew Craske
Oxford Brookes
Dr Matthew Craske lectures in History of Art at Oxford Brookes. He has held fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge, the Henry Moore Centre at Leeds, and the National Portrait Gallery. He has been the host ‘expert’ both for galleries, auction houses and television programmes and has been involved in various think tanks for the presentation of Art and national Identity at the new Tate Britain. His books include Hogarth, Liberty and its Consequences (London: Tate Publishing and Harvard: Princeton University Press, 2000) and the forthcoming The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England. 1720-70.
www.brookes.ac.uk/res/experts/profiles/matthew_craske
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Dr Matthew Hargreaves
Yale Center for British Art
Dr Matthew Hargraves is a Research Associate at the Yale Center for British Art and author of Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791 (2006) and Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection (forthcoming 2007).
ycba.yale.edu/index.asp
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Dr Vicky Whitfield
University of Manchester
Dr Vicky Whitfield teaches art history at the University of Manchester. Her research interests encompass 18th-century portraiture, particularly works linked to the emerging industrial economy at the end of the century, and the collecting and patronage of art by private individuals in the north-west of England during the 19th century. She is currently completing a book on the latter topic following a major AHRC funded research project at Manchester.
www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/arthistoryvisualstudies/academicstaff/vickywhitfield/
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Suzanne May
Liverpool
Suzanne May has published on the literary circle of George Romney and the scenographic influences visible in the works of Caravaggio. She undertook her Master’s level graduate work at the University of Maryland and completed her PhD at Liverpool John Moores University with the thesis ‘Sublime and Infernal Reveries’: George Romney and the Creation of a Late-Eighteenth-Century History Painter (2007).
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Dr John Bonehill
Lecturer in Art History
Dr John Bonehill teaches in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Leicester. His publications include, as co-editor (with Geoff Quilley), William Hodges 1747-1797: The Art of Exploration (2004) and Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France, c.1700-1830 (2005). He has recently completed a book-length study (co-written with Matthew Craske) entitled Theatres of Mars: War, the Visual Arts and the Formation of Public Culture in Hanoverian Britain c.1713-1815.
www.le.ac.uk/ha/staff/bonehill.html
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Professor Stephen Daniels
University of Nottingham
Stephen Daniels is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Nottingham and Director of the AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme. He is the author of a number of works on the arts and culture of the 18th century including Humphry Repton and the Geography and Georgian England (1999) and Joseph Wright (1999).
www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/a-z/index.phtml?name=daniels
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Mikael Ahlund
Nationalmuseum of Fine Arts in Stockholm
Mikael Ahlund is curator of 18th-century paintings and sculpture at the Nationalmuseum of Fine Arts in Stockholm. He has published a number of texts in the field of 18th-century art. He is presently completing his doctoral dissertation on the Swedish painter Elias Martin at Uppsala University. In 1995-2005 he was a board member of the Swedish section of ISECS (International Society of Eighteenth Century Studies).
www.nationalmuseum.se/Default____2705.aspx
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