• At the spring 2010 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded:

Senior Fellowships

  • Tarnya Cooper, to prepare her book Portrait Painting and the Urban Elites of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales.
  • Martin Hammer, to prepare his book Francis Bacon: Images of Power.
  • Mark Laird, to prepare his book The Environment of English Gardening, 1650-1800.
  • Sam Smiles, to prepare his book Turner's last paintings: the artist in old age and the idea of late style.
  • David Solkin, to prepare his book Art in Britain 1660-1837.

Rome Fellowship

  • David Rundle, for research in Rome for his book The English Hand in Rome: barbarous Britons and the Renaissance arts of the humanist book, 1400-1520.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

  • Adriano Aymonino, to prepare his book A mirror of the Enlightenment: the patronage, collections and cultural world of the first Duke and Duchess of Northumberland in Georgian Britain.
  • Madhuri Desai, to prepare her book Resurrecting Banaras: Urban Space, Architecture and Colonial Mediation (1781-1936).
  • Kate Grandjouan, to prepare her book Close Encounters: French Identities in English Graphic Satire c.1730-1799.
  • Helen McCormack, to prepare a series of articles on A Collector of the Fine Arts in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Dr William Hunter (1718-1783).
  • Mellie Naydenova-Slade, to prepare her book Images of the Holy Kinship: The Iconography of the Extended Family of Christ, c.1170 to c.1525.

Junior Fellowships

  • Irene Sunwoo, to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Alvin Boyarsky’s ‘Well-Laid Table’: Experiments in Architectural Pedagogy.

Educational Programme Grants

  • Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), grant towards a two day workshop, 24-26 June 2010: William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography.
  • English Heritage, grant towards a one day symposium, 1 December 2010: Robert Adam Furniture: Designs for Kenwood and Osterley.
  • University of Kent, grant towards a one day conference, 5 November 2010: The Visual and the Verbal in the Eighteenth Century.
  • University of Leicester, grant towards a two day conference, 7-8 April: Balancing the ‘Account’: the study of English medieval sculpture a century after Prior & Gardner.

Research Support Grants

  • Alena Artamonova, for research in the United Kingdom on Sir Thomas Lawrence and the British portrait tradition.
  • Michelle Carriger, for research in the United Kingdom on Him, She, or It: Contested Performances of Victorian Femininity in Britain and Japan.
  • Zirwat Chowdhury, to conduct research in the United Kingdom on Anglo-Indian Encounters: British Art and Architecture, 1780-1836.
  • Gill Clarke, for research in the United Kingdom on Randolph Schwabe: Artist and Teacher.
  • Carly Collier, for research in Italy and the United Kingdom on The Re-evaluation of Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Art in British Taste during the long Eighteenth Century.
  • Renate Dohmen, for research in the United Kingdom on Painting with Colour and Light: The Art of the Amateur Artist in British India: Madras, Bombay and the 'Hindoo Patriot'.
  • Sibylle Erle, for research in the United Kingdom on ‘Seeing the Face Read: the Role of the Silhouette in Johann Caspar Lavater's Physiognomy’.
  • Polina Ermakova, for research in the United Kingdom on Laurence Sterne’s ‘A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy’. Poetics of the Novel and the Visual Culture of the Enlightenment.
  • Meredith Gamer, to conduct research in the United Kingdom on Criminal and martyr: Art and religion in Britain's early modern eighteenth century.
  • Yvonne Gaspar, for research in the United Kingdom on Richard Bradley (1688?-1732): English Botany in Transition.
  • Ann Gunn, for research in the United Kingdom on The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809): A Catalogue Raisonné.
  • David Hansen, for research in the United Kingdom on Poor People: John Dempsey and his ‘remarkable character’ portraits.
  • Clare Haynes, for research in the United Kingdom on Idol or Ornament? Art in the Church of England 1660-1830.
  • Alba Irollo, for research in the United Kingdom on The lure of the antique from Pompeii to Victorian London: the diffusion of small casts in bronze and the beginnings of the ‘New Sculpture’.
  • Katherine Isard, for research in the United Kingdom on Architectural Commonplaces; Books, Reading and Building Practice in the Early Modern Period.
  • Chloe Kroeter, for research in the United Kingdom on Silent Protest: Art, Activism, and Deaf Periodicals in Victorian Britain.
  • Kristin Mahoney, for research in the United Kingdom on The Politics of Post-Victorian Aestheticism: Caricatures by Max Beerbohm and Beresford Egan.
  • Catriona Murray, for research in the United Kingdom on The Cult of the Deceased Prince Under the Stuart Monarchy.
  • Eleonora Pistis, for research in the United Kingdom on Architectural Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Oxford.
  • Robert Proctor, for research in the United Kingdom on Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955-1975.
  • Kate Robertson, for research in the United Kingdom on The Expatriate Experience: Australian artists abroad 1890-1914.
  • Banmali Tandan, for research in the United Kingdom on British Architecture in Calcutta during the Georgian Age.
  • Carl Thompson, for research in the United Kingdom on Maria Graham's Contribution to Art History, and her Participation in the 'Callcott circle' of the 1830s.
  • Tatyana Tyutvinova, for research in the United Kingdom on British Drawings of 18th - early 20th century from the Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum Collection.