Tania Adams
Pictures & Sculpture Cataloguing Consultant and External Projects Lead.
Responsible for paintings, drawings and watercolours, prints, miniatures and sculpture in over 200 National Trust collections (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
National Trust
20 Grosvenor Gardens
London SW1W 0DH
Ph: +44 7970 400 546
tania.adams[at]nationaltrust.org.uk
Period: 16th – century portraiture, 17th – century portraiture, 18th – century portraiture, 19th – century portraiture, 20th – century portraiture
Medium: Painting, Prints, Sculpture, Watercolours, Miniatures & Pastels
Theme: Collectors & Collections, Learning & Participation, Libraries, Archives & other research resources, The Art Market, Women artists
Career summary
BA Hons in Art History (Courtauld) and MA in Museum and Gallery Management (City University).
Worked at/for Witt Library (Netherlands School), Courtauld Institute of Art; Royal Academy; National Gallery; Art Fund/Hayward Gallery centenary; National Trust (in partnership with Public Catalogue Foundation and BBC).
Areas of interest / research
Nearly half the NT’s 12, 500 oil paintings are portraits
Renaissance art
Dutch and Flemish art
19th century British