Dr Francesca Kaes is a curator and art historian of British art with a focus on works on paper of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She currently is the Monument Trust Curator of British Drawings at the British Museum.
Prior to joining the British Museum, she was a Getty Paper Project Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022-23), an Anne Christopherson Fellow in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum (2016), and a Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Curatorial Intern at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2014-15).
Francesca received her DPhil from the University of Oxford with a thesis on eighteenth-century drawing master Alexander Cozens. Her research interests include the relationship between printmaking and other media and the intertwined nature of artistic practice and theoretical thought as embodied epistemology.
