Dr. Lucy Peltz is Head of Collection Displays (Tudor to Regency) and Senior Curator 18th Century Collections at the

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, London. Peltz studied History of Art and French at

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, followed by an MA in the History of Art at the

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. She completed her PhD at the

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in 1998. After working at the

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, Peltz joined the National Portrait Gallery in 2001.

Selected publications

*''Facing the Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain, 1769-1840''. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2017. Distributed in the UK by

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*''Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance''.

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, 2010. (with A. Cassandra Albinson and Peter Funnell) *''Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings''. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2008. (with Elizabeth Eger)

References

External links

Rebellion to Reform with Lucy Peltz.
*http://npg.academia.edu/LPeltz
Dr Lucy Peltz discusses Daniel Gardner’s Three Witches from Macbeth, 1775, The National Portrait Gallery, London.
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