Academic staff

The Wallace Collection

Dame Rosalind Savill FSA

Rosalind Savill, who gives the lectures on French porcelain, is Director of the Wallace Collection and a world authority on Sèvres porcelain. After graduating from the University of Leeds, she worked for a time in the Ceramics Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum before joining the Wallace Collection in 1974. A highly distinguished ceramics scholar, she is author of the three-volume catalogue of the Sèvres porcelain in the Wallace Collection and President of the French Porcelain Society. In 2000 she was made a CBE for services to the study of ceramics. In 2005 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Buckinghamshire and Chiltern University College and also won the European Woman of Achievement Award for the Arts and Media. In 2009 she became a Dame of the British Empire. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy and visiting Professor at the University of Arts in London.

Dr Christoph Vogtherr

Christoph Vogtherr teaches seventeenth and eighteenth-century French painting. Dr Vogtherr is Curator of Pictures pre-1800 at the Wallace Collection and previously worked as Curator of Paintings at the Prussian Foundation for Palaces and Gardens in Potsdam. He specialises in French eighteenth-century painting and the history of collecting in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Research interests and expertise include the work of Antoine Watteau, French eighteenth-century genre painting, Netherlandish influence on French art, and the collecting of Frederick II of Prussia. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of Buckingham. In October 2011 he will take over as Director of the Wallace Collection following the retirement of Rosalind Savill.

Jeremy Warren FSA

Jeremy Warren is Senior Curator at the Wallace Collection and curator of sculpture and works of art. He lectures on sculpture. A noted authority on bronzes, he recently completed a catalogue of the Wallace Collection sculpture and has also written a catalogue of the Fortnum Collection of bronzes at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Stephen Duffy

Stephen Duffy lectures on nineteenth-century collecting as well as teaching exhibition curatorship for the professional practice project. He joined the Wallace Collection in 1991 and was appointed Curator of Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Exhibitions in 1999. His publications include Paul Delaroche 1797-1856. Paintings in the Wallace Collection (1997; 2nd ed. 2010); Richard Parkes Bonington (2003; 2nd ed. 2004) and (with Jo Hedley) The Wallace Collection’s Pictures. A Complete Catalogue (2004). His is currently writing a book about the miniatures in the Wallace Collection (written with his colleague Christoph Vogtherr).

Dr Eleanor Tollfree

Eleanor Tollfree, who lectures on French Furniture, is a graduate of Cambridge and Bristol Universities. After working in the V&A Museum she became Curator of Furniture at the Wallace Collection on the retirement of Peter Hughes.

Jürgen Huber

Jürgen Huber teaches furniture techniques. He joined The Wallace Collection in 2004 and is now Senior Furniture Conservator. Following the journeyman tradition Jürgen trained as a cabinetmaker and restorer in Germany, France and Benelux, becoming a Tischler Meister in 1992. He gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Conservation Studies from the City and Guilds of London Art School in 1998 and since then has worked for public institutions and private clients in the UK, mainland Europe, Russia, Africa and the Middle East.

Outside lecturers

Annabel Westman

Annabel Westman lectures on the history, design and usage of furnishing textiles. She has been an independent textile historian and consultant on the restoration of historic interiors for the past thirty years and has worked on a large number of projects for heritage bodies in country houses and museums in the UK and USA. Recent work includes Kew Palace, Chatsworth, Kedleston Hall and Temple Newsam House. She is also Director of Studies for the Attingham Trust (for the study of historic houses and collections) and was co-Director of the Attingham Summer School 1992-2005. She was appointed a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1997.

Lizzie White

Lizzie (Lady Elizabeth) White, who lectures on English Furniture, is Director of the Attingham Summer School for the Study of the English Country House and a well-known furniture historian. After graduating with a degree in History from Oxford University she worked for many years in the Department of Furniture and Woodwork of the V&A Museum and was later Curator of Decorative Arts at the Holborne Museum in Bath. Her publications include the Pictorial Dictionary of 18^th Century Furniture Design (1990). She has also lectured and published extensively on the 18^th-century English interior and its furniture.

Tim Schroder

Tim Schroder, who lectures on Silver, is curator and consultant and a freelance lecturer. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, where he got his BA in Philosophy and Theology and at the Study Centre for the History of Fine and Decorative Arts in London. Having worked at the Silver Department at Christie’s in London he moved on to being Curator of Decorative Arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1984-89) and Director of Partridge Fine Arts plc (1990-96). He was also Curator of Gilbert Collection at Somerset House (1996-2000) and Consultant Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2000-9).

He was Chairman of the Silver Society in 1992, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2000 and has been a member of the London Diocesan Advisory Committee, the Court of Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, and Ad hoc member of the Acceptance in Lieu Panel and Export Review Committee.  He has published, among other works, T­he National Trust Book of English Domestic Silver (London, 1988), The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver (Los Angeles, 1988), Renaissance Silver from the Schroder Collection (London, 2007), and Hiroshi Suzuki (London, 2010) together with numerous articles for Apollo, Burlington Magazine and other journals. He is currently working with Michelle Bimbenet-Privat on a project on Rivals in Magnificence: Goldsmiths’ Work at the Courts of Henry VIII and Francis I.

Jane Gardiner

Jane Gardiner, who lectures on glass and British ceramics, trained at the Victoria and Albert Museum and went on to become a Research Assistant and Lecturer in the V&A Education Department. In 1987 she was invited to join Sotheby’s Institute as tutor of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Decorative Art, going on to become a Senior Lecturer and a Deputy Director of Sotheby’s UK. She continues to lecture for both organisations. Her areas of specialisation are early European ceramics and glass and eighteenth-century European design.

Peter Hughes

Peter Hughes, who lectures on French Furniture, was formerly Head Curator of the Wallace Collection, where he wrote the three-volume Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture and the monograph on French Eighteenth-century Clocks and Barometers. Since retiring, he has written articles on “Boulle at Blenheim” and “French Furniture at Petworth” for Apollo magazine and also contributed an essay on “British collectors of works by Boulle” for the Andre Charles Boulle exhibition at Frankfurt in 2009.

John Thorneycroft LVO, FSA, RIBA

John Thorneycroft joined the Directorate of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings (DoE) in 1974 from private practice and managed a series of schemes of conversion, re-presentation and repair, mainly at Hampton Court Palace. In 1983 at English Heritage he was given special responsibility for co-ordinating their advice to the then Department of National Heritage, the National Trust and the Royal Household following the major fires at Hampton Court (1986), Uppark (1991) and Windsor Castle (1992).

In 1996, he helped to set up, and then headed, the Government Historic Buildings Advisory Unit (now the Government Historic Estates Unit) which continues to provide Departments with a range of formal and informal advice, a biennial report on the condition of their properties and an annual building conservation seminar. John Thorneycroft has lectured on historic brickwork, researching historic interiors and the post-fire reconstructions at Hampton Court Palace and Windsor Castle. As a member of ICOMOS, he has contributed papers on disaster mitigation at international conferences and workshops in France and Poland. In 2004 he helped to set up English Heritage’s first formal links with a similar body in a EU ‘accession’ state (KOBiDZ in Poland). He retired in 2005 and since 2007 has been living in South Wales where he has assisted Ruperra Castle Preservation Trust with evidence at a public inquiry.

University of Buckingham

Jeremy Howard

Jeremy Howard is the Programme Director and Tutor for Admissions for the MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors, as well as Head of Research at the art dealers, Colnaghi. He is the tutor for British fine and decorative arts and historic interiors c.1660-c.1830. 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 Helen Jacobsen

Helen Jacobsen is Course Tutor for the French decorative arts and interiors 1660-1830. She graduated in History of Art from Cambridge University and later received her MA in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art / Victoria & Albert Museum. She did further postgraduate study at Oxford University, where her DPhil investigated the foreign influences in art, architecture and the decorative arts that characterised much cultural patronage by English diplomats in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She has published in the Journal of the History of Collections and the Historical Journal, and is currently writing a book about diplomatic patronage and collecting. She was a stipendiary lecturer at New College, Oxford before joining the University of Buckingham as Tutor in the French Decorative Arts. She is also the Assistant Director on the Attingham Summer School, an intensive programme of study focusing on the history, architecture and contents of historic buildings.

Dr Nicola Smith

Nicola Smith 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.

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