Peter Funnell is

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of Nineteenth-Century Portraits and Head of Research Programmes at the

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, London. Funnell studied English and the

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and completed his doctorate in the History of Art at

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Selected publications

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

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, 2010. (with A Cassandra Albinson and Lucy Peltz) *"Portraits, Power and Gender" in ''Portraits and Power, People, Politics and Structures''. Firenze: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, 2010. *''A Guide to Victorian and Edwardian Portraits.'' London: National Portrait Gallery in association with the National Trust, 2011. (With

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)

References

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The Victorians with Peter Funnell.
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