Christiana Joan Elizabeth Ruth Payne (born March 1956) is a British art historian at Oxford Brookes University who is a specialist in genre painting and the depiction of the natural environment in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Christiana Payne was born Christiana Knowles in Oxford in March 1956. [1] She graduated in modern history from St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and then completed an MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London [2] where her PhD was supervised by Michael Kitson. [3]
Payne is professor of history of art at Oxford Brookes University [2] 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 from January to March 1994. [4] The catalogue for the exhibition was published under the exhibition title by Yale University Press in 1993.
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