TIM BARRINGER is a Paul Mellon Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University, has published and lectured widely on British art and visual culture and on art and empire. His books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1998), American Sublime (with Andrew Wilton, 2002) and Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (Yale, 2005). He is editor of Colonialism and the Object (with Tom Flynn, 1997) and Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity (Elizabeth Prettejohn, Yale 1998). Art and the British Empire (with Douglas Fordham and Geoff Quilley, 2007), Art and Emanciption in Jamaica (with Gillian Forrester and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, 2007) and Writing the Pre-Raphaelites (with Michaela Giebelhausen) will appear with Ashgate in 2008.

WILLIAM FEAVER is a former art critic for the (London) Observer, writer, curator, broadcaster, painter, author of Pitmen Painters, from which The Pitmen Painters derives, and most recently, books on Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud, whose retrospective he curated in 2002-2003. He is founder trustee of The Ashington Group, member of the art advisory committee for the National Museum of Wales, and a tutor at the Prince's Drawing School.

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