Anne Richter
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Department of Art
Bio
Anne Nellis Richter's field of specialization is British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the art of the Romantic and Realist periods, and has a longstanding interest in in the history of museums, galleries, and other spaces for looking at art. She has published articles on looking at art in English country houses and in gentlemen's galleries, and she is currently writing a book about the display of art in private London townhouses during the period of the Napoleonic Wars. Dr. Richter received her PhD from Brown University in Providence, RI. She spent three years as a research associate at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and has also taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.