Neil Handley
Curator, British Optical Association Museum
The College of Optometrists
42 Craven Street
London WC2N 5NG.
Ph: 020 7766 4353.
Fax: 020 7839 6800.
museum[at]college-optometrists.org.
Period: 16th – century portraiture, 17th – century portraiture, 18th – century portraiture, 19th – century portraiture, 20th – century portraiture, Contemporary portraiture
Medium: Coins & Medals, Painting, Photography, Prints, Sculpture, Watercolours, Miniatures & Pastels
Theme: Costume in portraits, Medical Portraiture, Satires & Cartoons
Memberships (professional bodies)
Museums Association.
Social History Curators Group.
Scientific Instrument Society.
Career summary
Museum curator since 1995 specialising in scientific and medical history since 1998.
Areas of interest / research
Spectacles and vision aids depicted in portraiture.