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Diana Dethloff

Academic Administrator Seventeenth-century British painting and patronage Email: d.dethloff@ucl.ac.uk

 Diana Dethloff specialises in seventeenth-century British painting, with a particular emphasis on Restoration court portraiture. She is particularly interested in drawing practices as part of studio production and the training of artists; the relationship between painters, printers and print publishers; the changing patterns of court and City patronage during this period and the development of the London art market post 1660. In 2005 she was awarded, with Carol Gibson-Wood of the University of Victoria, Canada, a British Academy/Commonwealth Universities collaborative grant for research into picture and print consumption in London 1660-1720. This resulted in a network workshop at Queen’s University, Toronto (2005), an article (Gibson-Wood, Art Bulletin, 2005) and a conference paper (Dethloff, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2005). In July 2007 she was a Fellow at the Paul Mellon Center for British Art, Yale University. Her current research is working (with Catharine Macleod of the National Portrait Gallery, London) towards a full catalogue raisonne of the portraits, subject pictures and drawings of Peter Lely (1618- 1680), Principal Painter at the Court of Charles II, to be published by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art/Yale University Press. She has contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues on British art, including Van Dyck & Britain (Tate Britain, 2009) and most recently to 'Peter Lely; A Lyrical Vision' at The Courtauld Gallery, 2012. She is a member of the Editorial Board of 'The Art World in Britain' website and in September 2012 gave a joint keynote, with her colleague Charles Ford at the 'Histories of British Art' conference at York University, the final conference of the York/Tate Britain AHRC collaboration.

Supervision of research students.

As 1st supervisor:
(awarded June 2008) S. Sullivan ‘Representations of Mary of Modena, Duchess, Queen Consort and Exile: Images and Texts’.
As 2nd supervisor:
(awarded 2005) S. von der Geest ‘The Portraiture and Theory of Jonathan Richardson the Elder’.(awarded 2004) J. Todorovic ‘The Origin and Function of Ephemeral Spectacle in the Archbishopric of Karlovci’.

PhD examining: as internal examiner for Queen Mary, University of London (2012) and as external examiner for Oxford University (2011) and the University of Sussex (2010).