Dr Paul Spencer-Longhurst

Memberships (professional bodies)

Association of Art Historians.

Museums Association.

National Gallery History Group.

University Museums Group.

Career summary

MA (Oxon.), MA (Lond.), PhD (Birm).

Until October 2009 Senior Curator, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham.

Areas of interest / research

18th and 19th century British (& French) art including portraiture, especially Wilson, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Lawrence and Rossetti.

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

The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s, Barber Institute of Fine Arts & Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass. (Scala, 2000).