Anthony Geraghty (University of York)

 Anthony Geraghty is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of York. His catalogue The Architectural Drawings of Sir Christopher Wren at All Souls College Oxford was published by Lund Humphries in 2007. He is currently finalising a book on the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.

'Robert Streeter at the Sheldonian'

 Helen Pierce (University of Aberdeen)

Helen Pierce is a Teaching Fellow in History of Art at the University of Aberdeen.

'Francis Barlow: the Political Animal'

 Christine Stevenson (Courtauld Institute)

Christine Stevenson, Senior Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, is completing a book to be published by Yale University Press about the politics of architecture in Restoration London.

'Court, City cosmos: mediations of London's second Royal Exchange'

 Sarah Monks (University of East Anglia)

 Sarah Monks is Lecturer in Art History at the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia.  She is the author of Art and the Sea in Britain, 1650-1850 (Ashgate, forthcoming).

'Drawing fire: the van de Veldes, and the imagery and implications of late Stuart naval conflict'

 Jacqueline Riding (University of York)

 Jacqueline Riding is an independent historian and writer, currently working on a history of the second Jacobite Rebellion for Bloomsbury Publishing and Mike Leigh's new film on JMW Turner. She is completing her PhD on Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) at the University of York.

'The City Candidate: Joseph Highmore's "David Le Marchand" and the search for Kneller's heir'

 Dror Wahrman (Indiana University)

Dror Wahrman teaches history at Indiana University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is completing a book on the illusionist art of Edward Collier, and another with Jonathan Sheehan on order and disorder, providence, chance and self-organization in eighteenth-century Europe.

'Close, closer, closest reading: Art, obsession and the media revolution, c.1700'

 Debra Pring (University of London)

 Debra Pring was recently awarded her PhD from London University where her thesis dealt with the life and work of Edwaert Collier, with specific emphasis on his musical still-lifes - the first full-length examination of this artist's work ever undertaken. She is executive director of Repertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM), the scholarly body which co-ordinates and promotes research and data collection in music iconology worldwide, based in London and New York.

'"When I behold my Picture": the negotiation of meaning in Edwaert Collier's Still Life with a Copy of Wither's "Emblemes" '