Dr. Frances Jowell

Educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (BA, 1959), the Courtauld Institute, University of London (BA Hons, 1963), and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (PhD, 1971), Frances Suzman Jowell’s main areas of research have been on the life and writings of the political journalist, art critic, and art historian, Théophile Thoré, and on the work of Théodore Géricault. Her publications encompass the history of collecting and the art market, historiography, and the posthumous critical fortunes (and misfortunes) of artists. She has a particular interest in 19th-century revivals of earlier artists (eg. Hals and Vermeer) and has lectured and published in the UK and abroad on these subjects.