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MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors - Teaching staff
The Wallace Collection
Dame Rosalind Savill
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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