Dr Jan Marsh

Museum professional, independent historian

National Portrait Gallery

St. Martin’s Place

London WC2H 0HE

jmarsh[at]npg.org.uk

Period: 19th – century portraiture

Theme: Race & Nationality

Career summary

Biographer, curator, Victorianist.

Areas of interest / research

Portraits including figures of African and Asian ancestry.

19th century portraits.

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

Black Victorians: black people in British Art 1800-1900, Manchester Art Gallery and Lund Humphries, 2005.