Alison Smith (curator)

Alison Smith (born 1962) is director of collections and research at the Wallace Collection,^[1] having previously been chief curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 2017 until 2024. Before that she spent eighteen years at Tate Britain working as a curator of nineteenth-century British art.^[2]

Selected publications

• With Tim Barringer and Jason Rosenfeld, Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2012, 256pp.
• Watercolour, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2011, 192pp.
• Symbolism in Poland and Britain, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2009, 40pp.
• With Jason Rosenfeld, Millais, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2007, 272pp.
• The Enfranchised Eye, in Alison Smith, Allen Staley and Christopher Newall (eds.), Pre-Raphaelite Landscape: Truth to Nature, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2004, pp. 11–24.
• G.F. Watts and the National Gallery of British Art, in Colin Trodd and Stephanie Brown (eds.), Representations of G.F. Watts: Art Making in Victorian Culture, Farnham 2004, pp. 153–68.
• Exposed: The Victorian Nude, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2002, 288pp.
• A "State" Gallery? The Management of British Art During the Early Years of the Tate, in Colin Trodd and Paul Barlow (eds.), Governing Cultures: Institutions of Art in Victorian London, Farnham 2000, pp. 187–98.
• John Petts and the Caseg Press, Farnham 2000, 128pp.
• The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality and Art, Manchester 1996, 256pp.

References

1. "Wallace Collection Trustees Minutes" (PDF). Retrieved 1 January 2025.
2. "Female Voices in Art: Alison Smith". Retrieved 1 January 2025.

External links

• 'Watercolour' - take a tour with curator Alison Smith. Tate Gallery