Julia Dudkiewicz

Memberships (professional bodies)

Museums Association

Career summary

Since 2008 I have been looking after the Society of Antiquaries’ museum collections at Burlington House and Kelmscott Manor including a number of Pre-Raphaelite and Old Master portraits. I recently catalogued the paintings collection at Kelmscott for a forthcoming catalogue of the Antiquaries’ pictures.

Previously I was Assistant Curator at Watts Gallery for five years where I catalogued the collections, now available online, including a group of G. F. Watts’s portraits and portrait studies.

I also provide curatorial advice for Aldourie Castle.

Areas of interest / research

Victorian painting and in particular George Frederic Watts and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Pre-Raphaelite portraiture.

Details of books/publications relating to your work on British portraiture

Contributor to G. F. Watts. Victorian Visionary, (eds.) M. Bills and B. Bryant, Yale, 2008.

Contributor to Pictures from the Collections of the Society of Antiquaries of London (tentative title), ed. Maurice Howard, forthcoming (2011-2012).

Contributor of entries to Watts Gallery online collections catalogue.