Dr. Lucy Peltz is Head of Collection Displays (Tudor to Regency) and Senior Curator 18th Century Collections at the

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, London. Peltz studied History of Art and French at

Sussex University , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

, followed by an MA in the History of Art at the

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. She completed her PhD at the

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in 1998. After working at the

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, Peltz joined the National Portrait Gallery in 2001.

Selected publications

*''Facing the Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain, 1769-1840''. San Marino, California:

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, 2017. Distributed in the UK by

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*''Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance''.

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, 2010. (with A. Cassandra Albinson and

Peter Funnell Peter Funnell is Curator of Nineteenth-Century Portraits and Head of Research Programmes at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Funnell studied English and the History of Art at University College London and completed his doctorate in the Hi ...

) *''Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings''. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2008. (with Elizabeth Eger)

References

External links

Rebellion to Reform with Lucy Peltz.
*http://npg.academia.edu/LPeltz
Dr Lucy Peltz discusses Daniel Gardner’s Three Witches from Macbeth, 1775, The National Portrait Gallery, London.
Living people People associated with the National Portrait Gallery Alumni of the University of Sussex Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art Alumni of the University of Manchester British women historians Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-art-historian-stub