Peter Funnell Email & Phone Number

Dr Peter Funnell is a curator of 19th century Portraits and Head of Research programmes at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He did a doctorate in the history of art at Merton College, Oxford University after a BA at UCL. A year-long fellowship at Yale University led to his working and living in the United States in the mid 1980s. Since joining the National Portrait Gallery in 1990 he has curated both national and international exhibitions, and led major project ranging from the redevelopment of the Gallery's first-floor displays to directing the research of 10,000 portrait illustrations for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography of which he is a Consultant Editor with Oxford University Press. He currently combines his curatorial responsibilities with co-ordinating and promoting research at the Gallery. He specialises in 19th c portraiture across all media and has also published and lectured on British art theory and the London art world in the 18th and 19th centuries, the representation of masculinity in British portraiture, and the history of museum display.He has published and lectured widely in the areas of 18th and 19th century British art with particular interests in portraiture, art theory and the art world, the representation of masculinity and the history of museum display. Most recently he co-edited and contributed an essay and catalogue entries to Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance (Yale University Press, 2010) and advised on and contributed an essay to Portraits and Power, (Centro di Cultura Contemporanea, Fondazione Strozzi, Florence, 2010).

Listed skills include Art, Editing, Curating, Research, and 7 others.

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  Curator, C19Th Portraits And Head Of Research Programmes

  National Portrait Gallery

  Jan 1990 - Present - London, United Kingdom