Christiana Payne - English Accents: Interactions with British Art c. 1776-1855

GALINA ANDREEVA is the Head of Research and Projects at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Her PhD (Moscow, 1998) was on Anglo-Russian artistic links of the second half of the eighteenth century and first third of the nineteenth century. She has published widely on Russian art and on British artists working in Russia, and she curated the exhibition, Unforgettable Russia. Russians and Russia Through the Eyes of the British, 17th-19th Centuries (State Tretyakov Gallery, 1997).

TIM BARRINGER is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University, where he specializes in British and American art of the nineteenth century. He is the author of Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (Yale University Press, 1999) and editor (with Elizabeth Prettejohn) of Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity (Paul Mellon Centre/Yale University Press 1999). He was curator, with Andrew Wilton, of American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880 at Tate Britain, 2002. His next book Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain will appear in 2004.

DAVID BINDMAN is Professor of the History of Art at University College, London. He has written on Blake, Hogarth and the English response to the French Revolution. His most recent book is Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race (Reaktion Books and Cornell UP, 2002).

ROSALIND P. BLAKESLEY is a Fellow of Pembroke College and a lecturer in History of Art at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum (co-editor; Merrell, 2003), and Russian Genre Painting in the Nineteenth Century (under her maiden name of Rosalind P. Gray; Clarendon Press, 2000). She is currently working on a book on the Arts and Crafts Movement for Phaidon Press.

BARTHLMY JOBERT is Professor of Modern Art at the University of Grenoble. His publications include a monograph on Delacroix (University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 1998), and a hitherto lost manuscript by him, Souvenirs d'un voyage dans le Maroc (Gallimard, 1998). He has curated many exhibitions, including D'Outre-Manche, I'art britannique dans les collections publiques frangaises (Musee du Louvre, 1994). He is currently writing, with Bruno Foucart, a general study on French painting in the nineteenth century (to be published by Gallimard).

ANNE-MARIE LINK is Assistant Professor of Art History at Augustana University College, Alberta, Canada. She has published on the eighteenth-century German print market and on the illustrated book, as well as on the discipline of art history in the eighteenth century. She is presently completing a book manuscript, Art, History and Discipline in the Eighteenth Century University.

CHRISTIANA PAYNE is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include Toil and Plenty: Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England, 1780-1885 (Yale University Press, 1993) and Rustic Simplicity: Scenes of Cottage Life in Nineteenth-Century British Art (Djanogly Art Gallery/Lund Humphries, 1998). She is currently working on a study of coastal scenery in nineteenth-century British art.

MICHAEL ROSENTHAL is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick. He has published many books and articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art, including Constable: the Painter and his Landscape (Yale University Press, 1983, reprinted 1986) and The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: 'a little business for the eye' (Yale University Press, 1999) and he was guest curator for the Gainsborough exhibition held at Tate Britain in 2002. He is currently completing a major research project on early colonial Australia.

SARAH SYMMONS is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. Her publications include Flaxman and Europe, Goya in Pursuit of Patronage (Fraser, 1988), Printing the Unprintable, Goya: Art and Ideas (Phaidon, 1998). Her latest book is Goya: A Life in Letters (Pimlico, 2004).

WILLIAM VAUGHAN is Professor Emeritus in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published widely on Romanticism and on British and German art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His principal publications include Caspar David Friedrich (exh. cat.) (Tate, London, 1972), German Romanticism and English Art (Yale University Press, 1978), Romanticism and Art (Thames and Hudson, 1994) and Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century (ed. with L. Morowitz, Ashgate, 2001). He is currently completing a study on the concept of the British School, to be published by Yale University Press, and preparing an exhibition on the works of Samuel Palmer, to be held at the British Museum in 2005.