Emily Knight
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
University of Oxford,
Second Floor, Littlegate House,St Ebbe’s, Oxford OX1 1PT
emily.knight’at’trinity.ox.ac.uk
Career summary
University of Oxford: MSt History of Art and Visual Culture (2012)
Dissertation: ’Casting Presence: Death Masks and Portraiture in the Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries in Britain’
University of Edinburgh: MA History of Art (2010)
Dissertation: ’J. M. W. Turner and Lord Byron in Post-Napoleonic Europe’
Areas of interest / research
Eighteenth to early nineteenth century posthumous portraits, monuments, miniatures and mourning jewellery.
Details of books/publications relating to your work on British portraiture
‘Casting Presence: the Death Mask of Sir Thomas Lawrence’, Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, Issue 2 (2014) ‘Death: Ritual, Representation and Remembrance’.