Between 1890 and 1939, the groups of men involved in running Britain's four main public art galleries - the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery, the Wallace Coll

Stewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal tensions between Britain's four main public art galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominati

The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. Museums often sti

This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecti

Spaces of Connoisseurship explores the ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British art trade, via a c