Emily Worth
Visitor Services Assistant, National Portrait Gallery, and independent researcher
National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin’s Place
London WC2H 0HE
ejwpeanut27[at]gmail.com
Career summary
Graduated from the University of York Archaeology department in 2010; worked for the National Trust at Ham House for 2011; working at the National Portrait Gallery as a VSA and archive volunteer since February 2011; carrying on private research relating to dissertation work on interior funerary commemoration in churches, linked to Lincolnshire.
Areas of interest / research
Funerary monuments, specifically in Lincolnshire.
Use of art/sculpture in funerary monuments
Varying forms of art relating to death – death bed portraits, photographs and funeral momentos.