Tomas Björk, Professor Emeritus

Tomas Björk is a professor emeritus at the University of Stockholm. His research primarily concerns 19th century Swedish and Nordic art. He wrote his doctorate ...

Alison Smith, PhD

Dr. Alison Smith is Chief Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Prior to joining the NPG in November 2017 she was Lead Curator, 19th-Century British...

Carl-Johan Olsson

Carl-Johan Olsson is a curator of 19th century Painting at the National Museum in Stockholm. Among his key areas are landscape painting of the 19th century, ...

Christopher Riopelle

Christopher Riopelle is the Curator of Post 1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London. He previously held curatorial positions at the Getty Museum, L.A., ...

Asher Miller, PhD

Dr. Asher Miller is the Eugene V. Thaw Curator in Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where he focuses on the nineteenth century. His recent projects include the exhibitions The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850 (2013), Peder Balke: Painter of Northern Light (2017), and Delacroix (2018–19), organized in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, Paris. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowdoin College and a doctorate from City University of New York.

Martin Royalton Kisch

Dr. Martin Royalton-Kisch spent his career in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. He was responsible for the outstanding collections of Dutch, Flemish and French prints and drawings from 1982 until his retirement. He has written and lectured widely on European art by the old masters and organised and assisted with exhibitions on many artists and topics including Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, French drawings and on the history of collecting.

His chief publications are his books and exhibition catalogues on Adriaen van de Venne’s Album (1988), Drawings by Rembrandt and his Circle (1992) and The Light of Nature: Landscape Drawings and Watercolours by Van Dyck and his Contemporaries (1999). He has also written for many specialist journals and contributed to major exhibition catalogues, including Rembrandt the Printmaker (2000, which he edited), Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Drawings and Prints (2001), and French Drawings: Clouet to Seurat (2005).

He is now focussing on the catalogue The Drawings of Rembrandt. 

Kilian Heck

Kilian Heck is Professor of Art History at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald. His research focuses on the relationship of art ...