Biographies

Frances Fowle is Emeritus Professor of Nineteenth-Century Art at the University of Edinburgh. For over twenty years she was also Senior Curator of French Art at the National Galleries of Scotland, where she curated numerous exhibitions on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. She is Senior Trustee of the Burrell Collection, Glasgow and Co-Chair of ICRA (the International Catalogue Raisonné Association). She sits on the scholarly advisory board of the RKD, the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Collections, and is on the organising committee of FISN (the French Impressionism in Scotland network). Her specialism is impressionism, collecting and the art market and her publications include Monet and French Landscape (2006), Impressionism and Scotland (2008), Globalizing Impressionism (with Alexis Clark, 2020), The Impressionist Era (2021), The Art Market and the Museum (2025), Claude Monet: A Life in Letters (2026) and the Historical Dictionary of Impressionism (2026).

Hannah Halliwell is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century French Art at the University of Edinburgh. Her research specialisms relate to gender, medical visual culture and alcohol and drug use. Her monograph, Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870-1914 came out in 2024 with McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is also the author of the Historical Dictionary of Impressionism (Bloomsbury, 2026). Hannah’s current research projects concern images of absinthe drinkers and the visual culture of anaesthesia, both within the context of late nineteenth-century France. She is the reviews editor for the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs journal, an associate fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has previously held positions at the University of Exeter and the University of Birmingham. She completed her PhD in art history in 2021 at the University of Birmingham, funded by Midlands4Cities.

Alexis Clark is Assistant Professor at North Carolina State. She has published widely on impressionism including in Archives of American Art Journal, The Burlington Magazine, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and Oxford Art Journal.