Dr Jacqueline Riding, former curator of the Palace of Westminster and Director of the Handel House Museum, is an independent scholar, curator and author specialising in British art and history of the long eighteenth century with a current focus on William Hogarth and Jacobite visual culture. She is a historical adviser on feature films (Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner and Peterloo), consultant for museums, galleries and historic buildings, Contributing Editor, Books for The Art Newspaper, a trustee of JMW Turner’s House and the Jacobite Studies Trust, a Paul Mellon Centre Mid-career Fellow, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Dept of History of Art University of York, and the Royal Historical Society. Her recent and forthcoming projects include: curator of the Foundling Museum’s exhibition and author of accompanying book based on her PhD (York 2012) Basic Instincts: Love, Passion and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore (2017) and scriptwriter/adviser on their exhibition/soundscape Hogarth & the Art of Noise (2019); exhibition co-curator, Between the Sheets: Turner’s Female Nudes (Turner’s House 2022); and exhibition co-curator, Hogarth & the Jacobites (Derby Museum and Art Gallery 2023). Her books include Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion (2016), Peterloo (2018) and Hogarth: Life in Progress (2021) the Sunday Times Art Book of the Year.
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