Dr James Finch
Dr James Finch is a curator and art historian specialising in British art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is currently Assistant Curator, Nineteenth Century British Art at Tate Britain, where he most recently curated Sargent and Fashion. Other exhibitions and displays of historic and modern British art at Tate that James has worked on include (as co-curator) The Rossettis and Turner’s Modern World.
Dr Veronica Isaac
Dr Veronica Isaac is a curator, lecturer and writer, specialising in the history of fashion and costume. She leads the MA in Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming at London College of Fashion and lectures in Fashion Design History at the University of Brighton. Her doctoral research focused on Ellen Terry (1847-1928) and she is currently writing a biography of the actress.
Dr Joyce Townsend
Dr Joyce Townsend is Senior Conservation Scientist at Tate. She has concentrated for over 35 years on the identification and deterioration of artists' materials and on the interpretation of artists’ techniques in both oil and watercolour, for works from the 16th -20th centuries, with an emphasis on 19th-century British artists including Turner, Whistler, and Sargent. She is author of How Turner Painted: Materials and Techniques (Thames and Hudson 2019) and many other publications on British artists, and has contributed to the final volume of the Sargent catalogue raisonne.
Dr Emily Moore
Dr Emily Moore is a freelance curator and art historian specialising in portraiture. Her doctoral research focused on a compositional analysis of portraits by John Singer Sargent, and Anglo-American artistic and cultural exchange. She guest edited ‘Sargentology: New Perspectives on the Works of John Singer Sargent’ a special issue of Visual Culture in Britain.
Susannah Mayor
Susannah Mayor works for the National Trust and is the Senior Collections and House Officer at Smallhythe Place in Kent. The house contains the extensive collection and archive of Ellen Terry, including her costumes, scripts, library and numerous personal possessions. Susannah has curated many exhibitions in the twenty years that she has been associated with Smallhythe Place. As an actor and theatre practitioner, she has a particular interest in the approach Ellen Terry took to her acting roles and her understanding of the art of theatre.
