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Dr Lucy Peltz National Portrait Gallery, London Exhibitions and Publications Exhibitions The Art of Abolition, Managing and Co-Curator with Dr Gus Casely Hayford, National Portrait Gallery, February -May, 2022 and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, May-September, 2022. Gainsborough’s Family Album, Internal Curator, National Portrait Gallery, November 2018- February 2019 and Princeton University Art Gallery, March 2019-June 2019 (in progress). Simon Schama’s Face of Britain, Lead Curator and Series Advisor, National Portrait Gallery (with Oxford Films & Television, Viking/Penguin and BBC), September 2015-January 2016. Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions, Internal Curator, National Portrait Gallery, March-June 2015. Ayuba Suleiman Diallo: A Dialogue Across Time, Curator, working with Head of National Programmes on four venue tour working with Ben Okri and International Museum of Slavery, Liverpool; South Shields Museum and New Walk, Leicester and the National Portrait Gallery (September 2012-September 2013). First Actresses: Nell Gwynn to Sarah Siddons, Internal Curator, National Portrait Gallery, October 2011-January 2012. Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance, Co-curator with Peter Funnell (National Portrait Gallery) and Cassandra Albinson (British Art Center, Yale University), October 2010-January 2011, National Portrait Gallery and February 2011- June 2011 British Art Center, New Haven. Brilliant Women: Eighteenth Century Bluestockings, Co-curator with Elizabeth Eger, National Portrait Gallery, March- June 2008. George Romney, 1734-1802, Internal Curator with Alex Kidson, National Portrait Gallery, May-August 2002. Romantics & Revolutionaries. Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, touring exhibition, Curator, Georgia Museum of Art and Yale Center for British Art, Yale, July 2002March 2003,. Creative Quarters. The Art World in London from 1700 to 2000, Co-Curator, Museum of London, March- July 2001. London Eats Out: 500 Years of Capital Dining, Contributing Curator, Museum of London, March-July 1999. Books and Edited Volumes Facing the Text: Extra-illustration, Print Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1769-1850, (June 2017), Huntington Library Press, distributed in Europe by Manchester University Press, 2016, 978-0- 87328-261-1. Research and publication supported by the Getty, the Leverhulme Trust and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010, with Cassandra Albinson and Peter Funnell, 9778-0-300-16718-4. (Winner of the British Historians of Art Award for best Exhibition Catalogue, 2011). Thomas Lawrence Portraits, with an essay by Richard Holmes, based on texts by Cassandra Albinson, Peter Funnell and Lucy Peltz, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010, ISBN: 97885514-430-9.
Brilliant Women: Eighteenth Century Bluestockings, March-June 2008, co-authored with Elizabeth Eger, National Portrait Gallery, London and Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-74066-628-2. Beningbrough Hall, co-author, The National Trust, Swindon, 2006; rev. 2008, ISBN: 978-1-84359-219- 8. Creative Quarters: the Art World in London 1700 to 2000, with Kit Wedd and Cathy Ross, Merrell, London, 2001, ISBN: 1-85894-141-4 (paperback), 1-8589-142-3 (hardback). London Eats Out: 500 Years of Capital Dining, with Edwina Ehrman, Hazel Forsyth and Cathy Ross, Philip Wilson, London, 1999, ISBN: 0-904818-93-4 (paperback), 0-85667-516-4 (hardback). Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice, 1700-1850, with M.Myrone, Scolar, Aldershot, 1999, ISBN: 1-8014-275-8. Marcia Pointon, History of Art: A Students' Handbook, 4th edn, revised with the assistance of Lucy Peltz, Routledge, London, 1997, ISBN: 0-415-15181-3. Articles, Reviews and Contributions to Books A Portrait of Britain, contributor, ed. Tarnya Cooper, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-85514-485-9. Review of A Description of the Villa at Strawberry Hill: A Facsimile Copy Extra-illustrated for Charles Bedford in the Collection of Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, ed. Nicholas Barker (2010), Print Quarterly, June 2011, pp.23-5. A friendly gathering: The social politics of presentation books and their extra-illustration in Horace Walpole’s circle’, The Journal of the History of Collections IXX:1 (2006); doi: 10.1093/jhc/fhl037. ‘Facing the text: The amateur and commercial histories of extra-illustration, 1770-1820’, in Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading, ed. M. Harris, G. Mandelbrote and R. Myers (London and Delaware, 2005), pp.91-136. ISBN 9-7807-12-34913-0. ‘Portrait head collecting and the birth of extra-illustration: The Eton correspondence of the Rev. James Granger and Richard Bull, 1769-1774’, Walpole Society (2004), pp.1-161. Research supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. ‘Aestheticizing the Ancestral City: Antiquarianism, topography and the Representation of London in the Long Eighteenth Century’, in The Metropolis and its Image: Constructing Identities for London, c.1750-1950, ed. Dana Arnold (Oxford, 1999), pp. 6-28, ISBN: 0-631-21667-7. ‘The Extra-illustration of London: the Gendered Spaces and Practices of Antiquarianism in the Late Eighteenth Century’, in Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice, 1700-1850, eds. M. Myrone and L. Peltz (Aldershot, 1999), pp. 121-144, ISBN: 1-8014-275-8. ‘”Mine Are the Subjects Rejected by the Historian”’: Antiquarianism, History and the Making of Modern Culture’, with M.Myrone, in Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice, 1700-1850, eds. M. Myrone and L. Peltz (Aldershot, 1999), pp. 1-14, ISBN: 1-8014275-8. ‘Thomas Eakins’, in The Great Painters. The 19th Century: America (London & New York, 1993), pp. 762-7. Over sixty memoirs of engravers, print publishers and artists for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).