British Art

• Professor Jason Edwards
The global contexts of 'British' sculpture, c.1757-1914; art around the Arctic circle; world and complex systems; ocean studies; art of the British empire; craft and design reform in long-19th-century Britain; the reception of Buddhist art in the Atlantic world; JMW. Turner; aestheticism; nineteenth-century Assyriology and Egyptology; Victorian art and interiors; critical animal studies; and queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky.

• Professor Anthony Geraghty
Christopher Wren; John Vanbrugh; English Baroque architecture; architectural drawing and design practice; early modern university architecture.

• Professor Jane Hawkes
Late antique, early Christian and early Islamic art and architecture; Anglo-Saxon art, with a particular emphasis on the sculpture and its historiography; the art and architecture of 19th- and early 20th-century medieval revivals.

• Dr Richard Johns
Art and visual culture from c.1650-1850, especially decorative history painting, and the relationship between art and architecture; landscape and marine painting; questions of taste and value in art.

• Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn
The Pre-Raphaelites; Victorian Aestheticism; Victorian and 20th-century art criticism (particularly Walter Pater, Roger Fry); receptions of ancient, medieval and Renaissance art; relationships between philosophical aesthetics and art practice.

Current students:

• Susie Beckham
  Reassessing the Pre-Raphaelite label (1848-2022)
  
  
• Cristina Alfonsin Barreiro
  The Vulliamy workshop at Pall Mall – 100 years of creating luxury in London
  
  
• Martin Brook
  Charles Rutherston -The North of England's forgotten modernist pioneer? A case study into the collection and reception of modern art in the North of England, c.1900-1945
  
  
• Nigel Burt
  The Two ‘Authors’ of Work: Ford Madox Brown and Thomas Edward Plint
  
  
• Pamela Chapman
  York - the architectural palimpsest - an investigation.
  
  
• Helena Cox
  The Impact of British Art in Bohemia/Czech Lands around 1900
  
  
• Caitlin Doley
  Beyond Superficial Senescence: Art and Old Age in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
  
  
• Nicholas Dunn-McAfee
  ‘Venus surrounded by mirrors, reflecting her in different views': uncertain desires and aesthetic uncertainties in D. G. Rossetti’s double-works
  
  
• Izabella Gill Brown
  British Victorian Busts
  
  
• Eliza Goodpasture
  Female Friendship Among Artists at the Turn
  
  
• Debbie Innes
  The architectural, artistic and social histories of the New Gallery, Regent Street 1888-1910
  
  
• Sarah Kemp
  The influence of trade, textiles, and patronage on the early portraiture of Thomas Gainsborough from his Ipswich period.
  
  
• Sam Love
  Glamour, English Art, and the Re-Enchantment of High Society, 1918-39
  
  
• Layla Lozano
  Early British Women Travellers to Ravenna and Their Impact Upon Early Studies of Byzantine Art
  
  
• Eduardo de Maio
  A study of the phenomenon of the influence of English Pre-Raphaelitism in Italy on criticism, but especially on art.
  
  
• Peter Molloy
  From Ritual to Rapture: representations of the quest myth in mid-Victorian illustration
  
  
• Kim Newell
  Shifting patterns of taste and identity through iconographic analyses of mid-Victorian ceramics
  
  
• Adrian Robbins
  A Different View of Turner: Private Collectors, Agnew¿s and the Art Market, 1852-1906
  
  
• Madeline Salzman
  The Meaning, Iconography and Role of Angels in Anglo-Saxon England
  
  
• Gemma Shearwood
  Commemorating Imperialism in Eighteenth-Century Westminster Abbey
  
  
• Michael Smith
  John Flaxman: art, design and the intermedial body
• Murray Tremellen
  A palace within a Palace: the Speaker's House at Westminster, 1794-1834
  
  
• Junxia Wang
  The interplay of publicity images and art practice in the early Edwardian Britain
  
  
• Robyn Valentine
  'Convent Thoughts': Community and Religion in the Works of Charles Allston Collins.'
  
  
• Elizabeth Waring
  'Most Women have no Characters at all': Gender and Agency in Godfrey Kneller’s Portraits of Women 1676-1723
  
  
• Eleanor Wilson
  Self-Fashioning and International Artistic Patronage of Merchants in Pre- and Post- Reformation London: The Merchant Taylors 1400-1610

Past students:

• Rhian Addison
Landscape Artists’ Studios in London, 1780-1850

• Anna Bonewitz
Collectively Fashioned: Women, Dress, and Networks of Representation in British Visual Culture, 1750-1900

• Thomas Bromwell
Interwar British Art and the Apocalypse

• Pola Durajska
'I saw Nature unfold before my eyes': Nature, Science, and Myth in the Landscape Art of Frederic Leighton

• Alexandra Gushurst-Moore
The Making of Modern Fantasy in the Visual Arts of England, c. 1854-1914

• Mariam Hale
Escapism and fantasy in nineteenth-century British art

• Nanami Kawade
The Business Side of Art Collecting in Victorian Britain

• Clive Kennard
Playing with Guilt: A Symbolic Analysis of Simeon Solomon's Biblical Images

• Katrina-Eve Manica 
Aestheticism of Empire: longing for beauty

• Samantha Niederman
Solving 'the modern problem': Frances Hodgkins and Cedric Morris

• Antonio Noh
Victorian Artists during the Great War

• Ciarán Rua O'Neill
The Caryatid in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• Madeleine Pelling
"That Noble Possessor": Knowledge and its Materials in the Collection of Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785)

• Melanie Polledri
Networks, Connections and Ambition: The work of Sir William Goscombe John (1899-1942)

• Marte Stinis
Music as Aesthetic Ideal and Victorian Aesthetic Painting

• Julie Whyman
The Devil is in the Detail: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Manipulation of the Angels’ Alphabet

• Tom Woodhouse
Abraham Solomon (1823-1862)

• Glenda Youde
Beyond Ophelia: The artistic legacy of Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddall)

• Professor Richard Marks
• Professor Christopher Norton

• Professor Tim Barringer
• Professor Whitney Davis
• Professor Rosemary Hill

• Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper
• Joseph Friedman
• Richard Green
• Philip Lankester
• Dr Janina Ramirez
• Peter Trippi