Dr Katherine Gazzard is the Curator of Art (Post-1800) at Royal Museums Greenwich. She has taught courses on art history and museum studies for the University of East Anglia and Yale University. Her research focusses on eighteenth-century British art, especially portraiture, and the cultural history of the Royal Navy.
" ""Katherine Gazzard has written a wonderfully readable book, which brings the equivalent of a dazzling exhibition to your home, providing thorough background, expert nuance, and image reproductions of the highest quality. Everybody will learn something from this."" Dr Sara Caputo Director of Studies in History and Senior Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science"