Megan Buchanan-Smith

I completed a BA History degree at the University of Exeter and an MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oxford. I then undertook a three-year Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings at the Courtauld Institute of Art. During this course, I researched and treated paintings from the sixteenth century through to the nineteenth century. My final thesis was a technical art historical analysis of seven eighteenth-century portraits of servants from Erddig Hall, a National Trust property in North Wales.

My PhD is a collaborative doctoral award with the University of Cambridge and the National Trust. This research will explore the work of the Tudor/early Stuart portrait painter Rowland Lockey (c.1566-1616). Using a combination of art historical and technical analysis, this project will seek to define Lockey’s oeuvre, understand his painting practice, and situate him within the artistic culture of late sixteenth/early seventeenth century England.