Constantia Nicolaides
Photographs Cataloguer, National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London WC2H 0HE.
cnicolaides[at]npg.org.uk
Period: 19th – century portraiture, 20th – century portraiture
Medium: Photography
Career summary
I studied History of Art at the University of Sussex with a focus on modern and contemporary art, photography and visual culture, and joined the National Portrait Gallery’s photographic department in 2003.
Areas of interest / research
As a result of my work on the Gallery’s collection, I have developed a specialist interest in the work of Victorian portrait photographers, particularly from the heyday of the carte-de-visite in the 1860s through to the Edwardian period.