About the Author

Giles Waterfield is director of Royal Collection Studies, associate lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and an independent curator.

Reviews

“…comprehensive and exceptionally well-researched analysis... What Giles Waterfield’s book does, quietly and non-polemically, is to rescue the zeal and enthusiasm of those who opened great civic art museums from the condescension of art history.”— Charles Saumarez Smith, Literary Review
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“…a sophisticated work of scholarship that tells a detailed and fascinating story. As instructive and entertaining as the Victorian museums with which it is concerned, it will be an invaluable resource for many years to come.”—Susan Owens, TLS
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