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Christiana Joan Elizabeth Ruth Payne (born March 1956) is a British

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who is a specialist in genre painting and the depiction of the natural environment in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Early life and education

Christiana Payne was born Christiana Knowles in Oxford in March 1956. She graduated in modern history from St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and then completed an MA and PhD at the

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. The art collection is known particularly for ...

, University of London where her PhD was supervised by

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Career

Payne is professor of

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at Oxford Brookes UniversityProfessor Christiana Payne MA, PhD.
Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 7 March 2016. where she specialises in genre painting and the depiction of the natural environment in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1993, Payne was one of the organisers of, and wrote the catalogue for, the exhibition ''Toil and plenty: Images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890'' which ran at the Nottingham University Art Gallery from October to November 1993 before transferring to the

Yale Center for British Art The Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in central New Haven, Connecticut, houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, rare ...

from January to March 1994. The catalogue for the exhibition was published under the exhibition title by

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in 1993.

Family

Christiana Payne is married with a daughter.

Selected publications

Authored books

*''Toil and plenty: Images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890''. Yale University Press, 1993. *''Rustic simplicity: Scenes of cottage life in nineteenth-century British art''. Djanogly Art Gallery/Lund Humphries, 1998. *''Singing from the walls: The life and work of Elizabeth Forbes''. Sansom and Company, 2000. (With Judith Cook and Melissa Hardie) *''John Brett in Cornwall''. Sansom and Company, 2006. (With Charles Brett and Mike Hickox) *''Where the sea meets the land: Artists on the coast in nineteenth-century Britain''. Sansom and Company, 2007. *''Objects of affection: Pre-Raphaelite portraits by John Brett''.

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, 2010. (With Ann Sumner) *''John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter''. Yale University Press, 2010.

Edited works

*''Prospects for the nation: Recent essays in British landscape, 1750–1880''. Yale University Press, 1997. (Studies in British Art, 4) (Edited with Michael Rosenthal and Scott Wilcox)''Prospects for the Nation''.
Yale University Press. Retrieved 7 March 2016. *"The dress of the poor 1750-1900: Old and new perspectives", special issue of ''

Textile History ''Textile History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal first published in 1968 and published by Maney Publishing on behalf of the Pasold Research Fund. It covers "aspects of the cultural and social history of apparel and textiles, as well as iss ...

'', May 2002. (Edited with Steven King) *''English accents: The reception of British art abroad, 1776–1855''.

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, 2004. (Edited with William Vaughan) *''The power of the sea: Making waves in British art 1790–2014''. Sansom and Company, 2014. (Edited with

Janette Kerr Janette Kerr (b. 1959) is a British painter of land and seascapes. Janette Kerr served as the president of the Royal West of England Academy from 2011 to 2016 and then became a visiting research fellow in Fine Art at the University of the West ...

)

References

External links

Official website
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