• At the spring 2005 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded:

Senior Fellowships

  • Dr Vaughan Hart (Bath University) to complete his book John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone.
  • Professor Angela Rosenthal (Dartmouth College) to prepare her book The White of Enlightenment: Racializing Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
  • Dr Amy Sargeant (Birkbeck College, University of London) to complete her book ‘The Man in the White Suit’: New Textiles and the Social Fabric’.
  • Dr Frances Spalding (University of Newcastle) to complete her book John and Myfanwy Piper: A Joint Biography.

Rome Fellowships

  • Dr Chloe Chard (University of Cambridge) for research on Laughter and the Imaginative Geography of Italy, c.1750-1830.
  • Professor John Wilton-Ely for research on The Adam Style: a Revolution in Design.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

  • Dr Richard Checketts (University of Reading) to prepare his book The Visible and The Invisible in Shaftesbury’s Theory of Art.
  • Dr Hanneke Grootenboer (Columbia University) to prepare her book Treasuring the Gaze: British Eye Miniature Portraits.
  • Dr Lucy Jessop (Courtauld Institute of Art) to prepare her book Architecture and the Government Minister, 1688-1714.
  • Dr Richard Johns (University of York) to prepare his book James Thornhill and Decorative History Painting in England.
  • Dr Helen Pierce (University of York) to prepare her book Unseemly Pictures: Political Graphic Satire in Early Modern England.
  • Dr Geraldine Robinson (University of Sussex) to prepare her book Politics, Design and the Post-War ‘Prefab’.

Junior Fellowships

  • Tracey Avery (University of Melbourne) to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral dissertation on furnishing domestic interiors for the ‘Greater British’ in Australia, 1880-1920.
  • Jo Briggs (Yale University) to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral dissertation on artistic reactions to the Boer War in the mass media of London, Paris and Munich.
  • Ruth Brimacombe (University of Melbourne) to conduct research in the United Kingdom on images produced by artist-reporters of the Prince of Wales’s Royal Progress to India in 1875-6.
  • Alexis Goodin (Brown University) to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral dissertation on the representation of Egypt by British artists in the nineteenth century.
  • Ryan Johnston (University of Melbourne) to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his doctoral dissertation on Eduardo Paolozzi’s collages, scrapbooks and montages, and post-war modernism in Britain 1944-1956.
  • Alla Vronskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral dissertation on Sir Reginald Blomfield as a garden designer within a British and European perspective.

Research Support Grants

  • Hugh Belsey for research in the United States and Canada on Thomas Gainsborough.
  • Lisa Brocklebank (Brown University) for research in the United Kingdom on the photographer Eveleen Myers.
  • Dr Anne Bush (University of Oxford) for research in the United Kingdom and Italy on nineteenth-century images of Rome.
  • Mercedes Cerón (University College London) for research in Spain on the knowledge of British Art in eighteenth-century Spain.
  • Dr Ingrid Ciulisová (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava) for research in the United Kingdom on British Portraits in Slovak art collections.
  • Dr David Connell (Burton Constable Foundation) for research in Naples on William Dugood’s collection of casts at Burton Constable Hall.
  • Diana Dethloff (University College London) for research in the United States on Sir Peter Lely.
  • Dr Celina Fox for research in the United States and Stockholm on the Art of Industry.
  • Sarah Hoglund (State University of New York at Stony Brook) for research in the United Kingdom on nineteenth-century cemeteries in Britain and Calcutta.
  • Amanda Reeser Lawrence (Harvard University) for research in the United Kingdom on the architecture of James Stirling.
  • Dr Diana Maltz (Southern Oregon University) for research in Italy on ‘Bohemia’s Bo(a)rdrs: Queer Space in the Fin de Siècle.
  • Dr Hiram Morgan (University College Cork) for research in London, Paris and Ghent on Renaissance images of the Irish.
  • Nicholas Roquet (McGill University, Montreal) for research in the United Kingdom on William Burges.
  • Dr Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University, Montreal) for research in the United Kingdom on Robert Wood.
  • Kimberley Skelton (Yale University) for research in the United Kingdom on the English country house in the 1650s.
  • Dr Rosemary Sweet (University of Leicester) for research in Rome on the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century.
  • Michael Walsh (Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta) for research in the United Kingdom on the Avant-Garde in London in 1914.
  • Susan Wilson (The University of the Arts London) for research in the United Kingdom on the nineteenth-century English Swiss Cottage.

Educational Programme Grants

  • The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath: grant towards a symposium ‘The Art of Innocence’ (11th or 18th April 2005) linked to the exhibition ‘Pictures of Innocence: Portraits of Children from Hogarth to Lawrence’.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum, London: grant towards ‘Sacred Silver’ Conference (25th-26th November 2005).