Jeremy Howard
Jeremy Howard is the Head of the Department of Art History and Tutor for Admissions for the BA in Art History and Heritage Management, as well as Head of Research at the art dealers, Colnaghi. Educated at Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art, Jeremy spent thirteen years in the London art market, first at Christie’s and then at Colnaghi, and also worked for a number of years for a gallery specialising in architectural drawings, before joining the University of Buckingham and setting up the MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors in 2000. He also taught for three years at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research interests include British eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century patronage and collecting, the Grand Tour and the English country house, and the history of the London art market. He has recently published a history of Colnaghi and its role in the art market to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the firm.
Dr Adriano Aymonino
Adriano Aymonino heads the BA in Art History and Heritage Management. He graduated in History of Art at the University of Rome, with a thesis on the later artistic production of Paolo Veronese. He then obtained a Master’s degree at the Warburg Institute in London, after which he completed his PhD at the University of Venice with a dissertation on the patronage and collecting of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland. In 2009-2010 he worked as head of research for the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, based in London. Between 2010 and 2011 he held postdoctoral fellowships at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art of Yale University in London and at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He is currently working on his book on the Northumberlands and editing a volume on The miniatures by Jean Louis Fesch in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland, for the Roxburghe Club. He has also started research on a new project tracing the impact of antiquarian publications in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European art and architecture.
Dr Nicola Smith
Nicola Smith has special responsibility for the Heritage Management modules. She studied art history at the University of Manchester and began her career as a Historic Buildings Inspector for English Heritage – a brilliant introduction to English architecture and the practical challenges of conservation. She then taught art history and heritage management at Buckingham, where she discovered that she loves teaching. She is currently a Director of Art Pursuits UK, organising cultural tours, study days and short courses, and is looking forward to doing more teaching at Buckingham again. She has published books and articles on English architecture and sculpture, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Michael Liversidge
Academic Adviser in Art History and Buckingham Art History in Florence Programme Director. He formerly taught History of Art at the University of Bristol where he was Senior Lecturer, Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. His specialist interests are mainly in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on which he has published numerous articles and has co-curated major exhibitions (Canaletto and England 1993, Imagining Rome. British Artists and Rome 1996). He is a Governor of the British Institute of Florence, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Society of Arts.
