Fellowship and Grant Awards

Spring 2017

At the March 2017 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded:

Senior Fellowships

Kathryn Rudy, University of St Andrews was awarded £32,000 to prepare her book Physical Interactions with the Manuscript: Communities of Reader/ Viewers in Late Medieval England

Steven Brindle, English Heritage was awarded £32,000 to prepare his book The Pelican History of Art: Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1840

Rome Fellowship

Renée Tobe, University of East London was awarded £19,800 for research in Rome on Ventri Architectus: Reproducing Classical Idioms of Power and Culture in Film

Mid-Career Fellowships

Claire Wintle, University of Brighton was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book World Cultures Collections, Museums and Changing Britain, 1945–1980

Maria Cristina Terzaghi, Roma Tre University was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi in London

Matthew Greg Sullivan, Tate Britain was awarded £12,000 to prepare his book Francis Chantrey and the Strata of History: Portrait Sculpture, History, and Geology in Early Nineteenth-century Britain

Mercedes Cerón, The British Library was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book The Collections of Francis Douce (1757–1834)

Monica Sassatelli, Goldsmiths, University of London was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Displaying the Nation in a Cosmopolitan Age: Britain at the Venice Biennale

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Amy Tobin, Goldsmiths, University of London was awarded £8,000 to prepare her articles based upon Cecilia Vicuña in London: Art, Exile and Protest in the 1970s

Caroline Rae, Courtauld Institute of Art was awarded £8,000 to prepare her articles: A Secret History: Sir Robert Cecil, a Venetian Mosaic, and the Discovery of a Lost Portrait by John de Critz, Master and Servant; Illuminating the Oeuvre and Workshop Practice of John de Critz the Elder, Changing Faces; New Findings on Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; and, “The Work of God and Not of Man”, Gilding and the English Renaissance Portrait

Elisabeth Gernerd, University of Edinburgh, was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Têtes to Tails: Eighteenth-century Underwear and Accessories

Taylor McCall, University of Cambridge was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Illuminating the Interior: Anatomical Imagery in Medieval European Art and Thought

Zoë Thomas, University of Birmingham/ University of Oxford was awarded £4,000 to prepare her book Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1870–1939

Junior Fellowships

Elyse Nelson was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her dissertation Antonio Canova and His British Patrons: The Late Works (1814–22) and Restoration Europe

Federica Soletta was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Photography and the Origin of Architectural History

Leila Harris was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Labor and the Picturesque: Photography, Propaganda and the Tea Trade in Colonial India and Sri Lanka, 1880–1914

Paris Spies-Gans was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Claiming a Visual Voice: How Female Artists Navigated the Revolutionary Era in Britain and France, ca. 1760–1830

Rixt Woudstra was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Housing a Continent: Minimalism, Architecture and Human Need in British Sub-Saharan Africa

Educational Programme Grants

Pallant House Gallery was awarded £2,700 to support the Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries symposium

University of Glasgow and Mount Stuart was awarded £2,700 to support the The Art of Power: The 3rd Earl of Bute, Politics, Patronage and Collecting symposium

Waddesdon Manor and Oxford University were awarded £2,700 to support a workshop on The Jewish Country House Robinson College, Cambridge was awarded £1,200 to support the “In Glass Thy Story”: Innovation and Iconography in the Last Seventy Years of Glass Art in British and European Churches and Cathedrals symposium

RBSA Gallery was awarded £1,700 to support the RBSA William Gear symposium

Research Support Grants

Aleksandr Bierig was awarded £2,000 for research on The London Coal Exchange: Architecture, Environment, Economy

Alexandra Gent was awarded £1,000 for research on The Technical Comparison of Three Versions of A Nymph and Cupid by Joshua Reynolds

Allison Stagg was awarded £1,900 for research on The Early Training of the Scottish Caricaturist, William Charles (1776–1820)

Anne-Françoise Morel was awarded £1,700 for research on Preserving the Nation’s Zeal: Churches and Chapels Built in England Between 1642–1660

Carlotta Falzone Robinson was awarded £2,000 for research on Archibald Knox: British Modernity and Celtic Identity

Daniel Bochman was awarded £1,200 for research on Architectural Afflatus: Designing and Planning Drumlanrig Castle and Dalkeith Palace, 1685–1711

Heidi Egginton was awarded £1,200 for research on Collecting for the Nation: Arts Funding and the Public in Britain after 1918

Katherine Meynell was awarded £1,800 for research on Elizabeth Friedlander Exhibition

Katie Herrington was awarded £1,800 for research towards the exhibition Painting Light and Hope: Annie Swynnerton, A.R.A. (1844–1933)

Kristin Mahoney was awarded £2,000 for research on Pre-Raphaelitism and Anticolonialist Modernism in Sri Lanka

Laura Turner was awarded £2,000 for research on Turner, Ruskin and the Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (working title)

Louise Box was awarded £2,000 for research on Linking Materials and Archives: Research on the Print Collection of Elizabeth Seymour Percy, 1st Duchess of Northumberland

Mallika Leuzinger was awarded £2,000 for research on At Home and Abroad in Photography: Debalina Majumder (1919–2012) and Manobina Roy (1919–2001)

Matthew Hunter was awarded £1,900 for research on Talbot’s Engines: The Chemistry of Power in the Early Anthropocene

Sarah Leonard was awarded £2,000 for research on William Morris’s Thames Landscapes: Archival Research

Vimalin Rujivacharakul was awarded £2,000 for research on Shapes of the World: Banister Fletcher and His Book