The tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel
In the winter of 1849-1850, the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt were painting together, when their friend Walter Howell Deverell burst into …
Online talk: A hairy history of art!
Come on a pogonographic journey into the history of facial hair in art! A few years ago I was commissioned to give several lectures and …
De Morgan Foundation talk, 31 July
Last year, I was invited to become a Patron of the De Morgan Foundation. On 31 July, I’m doing my first event for them. Obviously …
Lizzie Siddal online talk
On Monday 6 July, I’m doing an online lecture on ‘Lizzie Siddal, The Original Supermodel’. It starts at 6pm UK time, and is joinable from …
Katey in the ODNB
My article on the artist Kate Perugini (née Dickens, also known as Kate Collins) has been published by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. It’s …
#Dickens150
9 June 2020 is the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, and commemorative events had been planned for all over the world, which have sadly …
Online talk 3 June
I’ve started a series of online lectures to help us through this strange time of staying at home. The first was a virtual tour of …
Lockdown Lectures
Tomorrow I was supposed to be taking alumni from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on a tour of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Now, we’ll be …
Dickens Lost Portrait podcast
If you’re looking for something to listen to during this strange time of lockdown, here’s a link to the podcast I made with Philip Mould, …