Rebecca Wade

Dr. Rebecca Wade is an art historian and assistant curator of sculpture at Leeds Museums and Galleries, based at the Henry Moore Institute. Rebecca’s research interests lie in the confluence of museum and exhibitionary cultures, art education, and teaching collections in the second half of the nineteenth century. She has completed postdoctoral research projects on plaster casts at the Museum of Classical Archaeology (University of Cambridge Museums), the Henry Moore Institute and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She is coeditor of the recently published volume Art versus Industry? Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Manchester University Press, 2016) and her research monograph, Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of Nineteenth-Century Britain, will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2018.