Frederic Leighton and Landscape Art

Dr William Bainbridge is a Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire. He received his PhD in Historical Geography from the University of Durham, and has been a fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He acts as a consultant on heritage matters internationally, including for UNESCO and ICOMOS.

Dr Carol Jacobi is Curator of British Art 1850-1915 at Tate Britain, but works across periods including contemporary art, with a commitment to de-centring collections and displays. She studied at Birkbeck, University of London, Kings College, University of London and the University of Northumbria, and has taught at Birkbeck, the Courtauld Institute and elsewhere. She was Leverhulme Fellow in the History of Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery. 

Viv Lawes is a lecturer, curator, author and former arts journalist with 30 years’ experience in the art market. She combine steaching at various Higher Education institutions in London with commercial work in the art world. She currently teaches courses at Sotheby's Institute of Art, ICity & Guilds of London Art School and University of the Arts London.

Dr Maddie Hewitson is an art historian who specialises in nineteenth-century British art. Her research focuses on the visual and material cultures that emerged from British encounters with the Middle East and North Africa in the mid-to-late Victorian period. 

Iluá Hauck da Silva is a visual artist and art historian living and working in London. She is currently working towards a PhD at the University of East London.

Dr Sara Dominici is a scholar of photographic history and visual culture based at the University of Westminster. She has published on popular photographic cultures, informal photographic education, and the intertwined histories of photography and other media and technologies in 19th to mid-20th century Britain and North America. She is currently writing a book on the history of the photographic darkroom, supported by a British Academy-Leverhulme Small Grant Award.

Rate Categories and Discounts

Standard Rate

• Available to all except those who fall under the Internal Rate or Associate Rate category.

Internal Rate

• Current Imperial College students and staff (incl. Imperial NHS Trust, Imperial Innovations, ancillary & service staff employed on long-term contracts at Imperial College by third-party contractors)
• People enrolling under our Friends & Family scheme
• Alumni of Imperial College and predecessor colleges and institutes, including City & Guilds College Association members
• Students, staff and alumni of the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music and City, UAL and the City and Guilds of London Art School
• Students, staff and Governors of Woodhouse College and the IC Mathematics School

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• Austrian Cultural Forum staff
• Co-operative College members
• Francis Crick Institute staff, researchers and students
• Friends and Patrons of the English Chamber Orchestra
• Friends of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
• Friends of Leighton House/ Sambourne House
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• Harrods staff
• Historic Royal Palaces staff
• Lycee Charles de Gaulle staff
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• Members of the London Zoological Society
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• Members of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
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• Natural History Museum staff
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• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council staff
• Royal Geographical Society staff
• Science Museum staff
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• Teachers and other staff of UK schools
• The American Institute for Foreign Study
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• Tutors and other staff of other universities and higher education institutions
• Victoria and Albert Museum staff

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This course is eligible for allowing Imperial College students and staff to share their discount with their friends and family.

Enrolment via the blue booking link is open. Early-bird discounts are available until the end of 30 September 2024

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