Dr Patricia De Montfort

  • Senior Lecturer (History of Art)

telephone: 01413303268
email: Patricia.de-Montfort@glasgow.ac.uk

R205 Level 1, History of Art, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QH

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247

Research interests

Research Interests 

 

  • British and American art c.1850-1920, especially the work of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and his circle, including Beatrix Whistler, née Philip (1857-1896). 
  • History of the London art market, c.1780-1920.
  • Women artists in 19th century Britain, with special interest in the life and work of Louise Jopling (1843-1933). Related professional networks.
  • Exhibition culture and international artist/dealer networks
  • 19th century criticism and the art press.
  • 19th century printmaking and print culture in Britain and France (with a particular focus on the Hunterian collections).
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of 19th century materials and techniques.

 

Current Projects

  • Curatorial consultant & Hunterian lead, James McNeill Whistler (major retrospective, Tate Britain and other international venues 2026-7).
  • Hunterian lead and research contributor, Whistler's Finish (related technical art history project led by Tate and funded by The Lunder Foundation, USA.
  • Related interdisciplinary studies (with J. Townsend) of key late Whistler portraits of the Birnie Philip family in the Hunterian collection.
  • The British Art Market in the Long 19th Century (with G. Petri), Six-volume series of primary source materials accompanied by critical essays (Routledge, print and online).  
  • Louise Jopling (1843-1933) (catalogue raisonné and research archive).

 

 

Publications

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2025

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2025) Working women and social life in Whistler’s studio. In: Jacobi, Carol (ed.) James McNeill Whistler. Tate Publishing: London. (Accepted for Publication)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2025) From Merton Villa to the Rue du Bac: Whistler and the Birnie Philip family in London and Paris. Ten O'Clock: Journal of the Whistler Society, 5,

2024

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Petri, Grischka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2548-449X (2024) Writing Whistler: A Digital Edition. [Website]

Visser, Tess and de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2024) Whistler Pastels - A Technical Art History Analysis. [Website]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2024) Louise Jopling (1843-1933) Exhibition Strategies. In: Barber, Tabitha (ed.) Now You See Us - Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920. Tate Publishing, pp. 126-128. ISBN 9781849769259

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2024) Louise Jopling's Art School. In: Barber, Tabitha (ed.) Now You See Us - Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920. Tate Publishing: London, p. 172. ISBN 9781849769259

2023

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2023) Whistler's late portraits of Ethel Birnie Philip in the Hunterian Collection. The Ten O'Clock: Journal of the Whistler Society(4),

2022

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2022) The apprenticeship years: from Whistler to Degas. In: Chambers, Emma (ed.) Walter Sickert. Tate Publishing: London. ISBN 9781849768214

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2022) Women in Whistler’s images of Chelsea and the Thames. British Art Studies, 22,

2021

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2021) James McNeill Whistler: nature and industry. [Website]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2021) Whistler: Art and Legacy. [Exhibitions]

Willsdon, Clare ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-6291 and de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2021) Whistler Nature and Science. [Website]

2020

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2020) “A great sensation” women in white in late Victorian literature and popular Culture. In: MacDonald, Margaret F. (ed.) The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 147-156. ISBN 9780300254501

2019

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2019) Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. The Hustle and the Scramble. Women's History Review, 28(7), pp. 1241-1242. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2019.1667586)[Book Review]

2018

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2018) Whistler and Nature. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Willsdon, Clare ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-6291 (2018) Whistler and Nature. Paul Holberton: London. ISBN 9781911300496

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2018) “Suggesting, Exhorting, Encouraging”: Louise Jopling’s Art School for Women. Association for Art History Annual Conference, London, UK, 5-7 Apr 2018. (Unpublished)

2017

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2017) Art and Opportunity: Louise Jopling (1843-1933) and the Periodical Press. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference 2017, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 27-29 July 2017. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2017) Louise Jopling: artist, teacher, campaigner. Fine Art Connoisseur, 14(4), pp. 76-80.

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2017) Louise Jopling's Art School and the Slade Model. Association for Art History Annual Conference, Loughborough, UK, 6-8 April 2017. (Unpublished)

2016

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2016) Gender and Style in the Circle of James McNeill Whistler. Anxious Forms: Masculinities in Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century, Glasgow, UK, 28 Oct 2016. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2016) Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study of the Modern Woman Artist in Victorian Britain. Routledge: Burlington. ISBN 9781472467393 (hardback), 9781138352728 (paperback)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2016) Louise Jopling in the studio. British Women Artists 1760-1960 Sub-Group Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 26 May 2016. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Calvert, R. (2016) Still Invisible: Provocation. British Art Studies(2), (doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/still-invisible)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2016) British Art Studies, Issue 2 [Lead Editor]. British Art Studies, 2, (doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02)

2015

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2015) Louise Jopling: Artist and Teacher. [Exhibitions]

2014

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2014) Collecting women’s works: Jopling, the Rothschilds and their circle. The Collector and his Circle: New Research in the History of Collecting, London, UK, 1-2 July 2014. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2014) Researching 'Overlooked' Artists: Louise Jopling (1843-1933). British Art Network: Overlooked Victorian Artists, Manchester, UK, 16 Jan 2014. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2014) Whistler on exhibition in the 1890s: reputation and reward. In: Ono, A. (ed.) James McNeill Whistler: Retrospective. National Museum of Modern Art and Yokohama Museum of Art, pp. 239-242.

2013

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2013) Whistler and Watercolour. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2013) Louise Jopling: a gendered reading of late 19th-century Britain. Woman's Art Journal, 34,

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2013) Painting river pictures : Whistler’s Chelsea subjects. In: MacDonald, M. and de Montfort, P. (eds.) An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. Philip Wilson: London, pp. 30-49. ISBN 9781781300060

MacDonald, M.F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799 and de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2013) An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. Philip Wilson: London. ISBN 9781781300060

2012

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2012) The Fine Art Society and the rise of the solo exhibition. In: Gould, C. and Mesplede, S. (eds.) Marketing Art in the British Isles, 1700 to the Present: A Cultural History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 147-163. ISBN 9781409436690

2011

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2011) Negotiating a reputation: J.M. Whistler, D.G. Rossetti and the art market, 1860-1900. In: Fletcher, P. and Helmreich, A. (eds.) The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850-1930. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 257-275. ISBN 9780719084607

2010

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2010) Whistler in the Twentieth Century. In: Hermens, E., Meacock, J. and Petri, G. (eds.) Connecting Whistler: Essays in honour of Margaret F. MacDonald. UNSPECIFIED: Glasgow, pp. 115-119.

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2010) Louise Jopling (1843-1933) [online 2010- ]. [Website]

2008

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2008) “Two to make a Brotherhood”: F.G. Stephens, art criticism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, 16(2), pp. 57-69.

2007

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2007) Exhibition culture in London 1878-1908. Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, 12,

2006

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2006) Exhibition Culture in London 1878-1908 [online 2003-10]. [Website]

2005

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2005) Whistler's ten o'clock lecture. Quarterly Ephemera, 1(3), pp. 81-90.

2004

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2004) "Atlas" and the Butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and the "World". In: Brake, L. and Codell, J. (eds.) Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, pp. 161-174. ISBN 1-4039-4177-7

2003

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2003) White Muslin: Joanna Hiffernan and the 1860's. In: MacDonald, M. F. (ed.) Whistler, Women and Fashion. Yale University Press: New York; London, pp. 76-91. ISBN 0 912114 22 3

MacDonald, M. F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799, Galassi, S.G., Ribeiro, A. and de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2003) Whistler, Women and Fashion. Yale University Press: London. ISBN 9780300099065

MacDonald, Margaret F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799, de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Thorp, Nigel (2003) The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler [online 2003-10]. University of Glasgow.

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Articles

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2025) From Merton Villa to the Rue du Bac: Whistler and the Birnie Philip family in London and Paris. Ten O'Clock: Journal of the Whistler Society, 5,

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2023) Whistler's late portraits of Ethel Birnie Philip in the Hunterian Collection. The Ten O'Clock: Journal of the Whistler Society(4),

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2022) Women in Whistler’s images of Chelsea and the Thames. British Art Studies, 22,

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2017) Louise Jopling: artist, teacher, campaigner. Fine Art Connoisseur, 14(4), pp. 76-80.

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Calvert, R. (2016) Still Invisible: Provocation. British Art Studies(2), (doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/still-invisible)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2016) British Art Studies, Issue 2 [Lead Editor]. British Art Studies, 2, (doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02)

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2013) Louise Jopling: a gendered reading of late 19th-century Britain. Woman's Art Journal, 34,

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2008) “Two to make a Brotherhood”: F.G. Stephens, art criticism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, 16(2), pp. 57-69.

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2007) Exhibition culture in London 1878-1908. Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, 12,

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2005) Whistler's ten o'clock lecture. Quarterly Ephemera, 1(3), pp. 81-90.

Books

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Willsdon, Clare ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-6291 (2018) Whistler and Nature. Paul Holberton: London. ISBN 9781911300496

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2016) Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study of the Modern Woman Artist in Victorian Britain. Routledge: Burlington. ISBN 9781472467393 (hardback), 9781138352728 (paperback)

MacDonald, M.F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799 and de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2013) An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. Philip Wilson: London. ISBN 9781781300060

MacDonald, M. F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799, Galassi, S.G., Ribeiro, A. and de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2003) Whistler, Women and Fashion. Yale University Press: London. ISBN 9780300099065

Book Sections

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2025) Working women and social life in Whistler’s studio. In: Jacobi, Carol (ed.) James McNeill Whistler. Tate Publishing: London. (Accepted for Publication)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2024) Louise Jopling (1843-1933) Exhibition Strategies. In: Barber, Tabitha (ed.) Now You See Us - Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920. Tate Publishing, pp. 126-128. ISBN 9781849769259

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2024) Louise Jopling's Art School. In: Barber, Tabitha (ed.) Now You See Us - Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920. Tate Publishing: London, p. 172. ISBN 9781849769259

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2022) The apprenticeship years: from Whistler to Degas. In: Chambers, Emma (ed.) Walter Sickert. Tate Publishing: London. ISBN 9781849768214

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2020) “A great sensation” women in white in late Victorian literature and popular Culture. In: MacDonald, Margaret F. (ed.) The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 147-156. ISBN 9780300254501

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2014) Whistler on exhibition in the 1890s: reputation and reward. In: Ono, A. (ed.) James McNeill Whistler: Retrospective. National Museum of Modern Art and Yokohama Museum of Art, pp. 239-242.

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2013) Painting river pictures : Whistler’s Chelsea subjects. In: MacDonald, M. and de Montfort, P. (eds.) An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. Philip Wilson: London, pp. 30-49. ISBN 9781781300060

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2012) The Fine Art Society and the rise of the solo exhibition. In: Gould, C. and Mesplede, S. (eds.) Marketing Art in the British Isles, 1700 to the Present: A Cultural History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 147-163. ISBN 9781409436690

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2011) Negotiating a reputation: J.M. Whistler, D.G. Rossetti and the art market, 1860-1900. In: Fletcher, P. and Helmreich, A. (eds.) The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850-1930. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 257-275. ISBN 9780719084607

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2010) Whistler in the Twentieth Century. In: Hermens, E., Meacock, J. and Petri, G. (eds.) Connecting Whistler: Essays in honour of Margaret F. MacDonald. UNSPECIFIED: Glasgow, pp. 115-119.

de Montfort, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2004) "Atlas" and the Butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and the "World". In: Brake, L. and Codell, J. (eds.) Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, pp. 161-174. ISBN 1-4039-4177-7

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2003) White Muslin: Joanna Hiffernan and the 1860's. In: MacDonald, M. F. (ed.) Whistler, Women and Fashion. Yale University Press: New York; London, pp. 76-91. ISBN 0 912114 22 3

Book Reviews

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2019) Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. The Hustle and the Scramble. Women's History Review, 28(7), pp. 1241-1242. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2019.1667586)[Book Review]

Edited Books

MacDonald, Margaret F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799, de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Thorp, Nigel (2003) The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler [online 2003-10]. University of Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2018) “Suggesting, Exhorting, Encouraging”: Louise Jopling’s Art School for Women. Association for Art History Annual Conference, London, UK, 5-7 Apr 2018. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2017) Art and Opportunity: Louise Jopling (1843-1933) and the Periodical Press. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference 2017, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 27-29 July 2017. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2017) Louise Jopling's Art School and the Slade Model. Association for Art History Annual Conference, Loughborough, UK, 6-8 April 2017. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2016) Gender and Style in the Circle of James McNeill Whistler. Anxious Forms: Masculinities in Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century, Glasgow, UK, 28 Oct 2016. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2016) Louise Jopling in the studio. British Women Artists 1760-1960 Sub-Group Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 26 May 2016. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2014) Collecting women’s works: Jopling, the Rothschilds and their circle. The Collector and his Circle: New Research in the History of Collecting, London, UK, 1-2 July 2014. (Unpublished)

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2014) Researching 'Overlooked' Artists: Louise Jopling (1843-1933). British Art Network: Overlooked Victorian Artists, Manchester, UK, 16 Jan 2014. (Unpublished)

Exhibitions

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2021) Whistler: Art and Legacy. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2018) Whistler and Nature. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2015) Louise Jopling: Artist and Teacher. [Exhibitions]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2013) Whistler and Watercolour. [Exhibitions]

Website

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Petri, Grischka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2548-449X (2024) Writing Whistler: A Digital Edition. [Website]

Visser, Tess and de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2024) Whistler Pastels - A Technical Art History Analysis. [Website]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2021) James McNeill Whistler: nature and industry. [Website]

Willsdon, Clare ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-6291 and de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2021) Whistler Nature and Science. [Website]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2010) Louise Jopling (1843-1933) [online 2010- ]. [Website]

de Montfort, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 (2006) Exhibition Culture in London 1878-1908 [online 2003-10]. [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Oct 26 15:33:37 2025 GMT.

Grants

  • The Lunder Foundation (2020-4; £170k) PI; Whistler and related research sub-projects 

Supervision

I welcome enquiries about potential M.Res or PhD projects in any area relating to my research interests. Current supervisory/co-supervisory projects include work on Impressionist women and on Whistler.

 

 

Whistler and related research and collections portal (University of Glasgow)

 

  • Jennifer Macleod (PhD): ‘Scottish Women Etchers of the Etching Revival, 1880-1930.'
  • Kristina Åström (PhD): 'Liminal, Play: Inter-art relations between Stéphane Mallarmé and James McNeill Whistler.'
  • Yunong Wu (PhD): 'Global Transformation and Regional Reception: Collecting Practice of Mounted Chinese Porcelain in 19th-Century Britain.'
  • Katrina Hill (PhD): 'Complicated Objects: Artifacts from the Yuanming Yuan in Victorian Britain.'

Teaching

  • Level 1 History of Art programme (team taught)
  • Level 2 History of Art programme (team taught)
  • ‘Artists and the Art Market in Britain’ (L3, Junior Honours, 20-credits).
  • ‘Women, Art and Audience 1830-1914’ (L3, Junior Honours, 20-credits).
  • 'Printmaking in Britain c.1780-1914: contexts, processes, markets' (L4, Senior Honours, 40-credits)
  • Portfolio core course (L3, Junior Honours, team taught).
  • Methodology core course (L3, Junior Honours, team taught).
  • Postgraduate taught courses.

Additional information

Other roles:

  • Research Curator for Whistler Studies, The Hunterian (responsible for the University's world-renowned James McNeill Whistler collection) 
  • Level 1 Co-convenor
  • Manage L1 Seminar Tutor teaching team and support individual practice
  • History of Art Resource Centre Convenor
  • Chair, Whistler Scholarships Committee
  • Chair, University's Whistler Strategy Group

External Responsibilities

  • Honorary Visiting Fellow, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
  • Founding Chair, Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network (SWARN; professional, Scotland-wide organisation that seeks to promote the visibility of women makers in the fine arts, design, craft and architecture in public collections). 
  • External Examiner, PGT curatorial and art history programmes, University of Birmingham.
  • External Examiner, UG History of Art programme, University College, Cork, Ireland (NUI).
  • Editorial Board, Whistler Criticism Digitisation Project, Augustana College, Illinois, USA.
  • Editorial Board, Journal of the Whistler Society, London (http://www.whistlersociety.org/)
  • Have also served as External Examiner and reviewer for numerous PhD projects and subject/PG reviews.

Online Research Projects

 

Recent talks and symposia

Courtauld Gallery - contributions to hybrid evening lecture series for its exhibition, 'Monet and London. Views of the Thames,' November 2024.

Symposium series (with C. Willsdon) on Whistler, Nature and Science, including online legacy content,2019-22.

Exhibitions

  • Curator, Whistler: Art & Legacy, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow (major retrospective, Jul-Oct 2021).
  • Curator, Whistler & Nature, UK touring exhibition (Compton Verney, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Laing Gallery, Newcastle, 2018-19).
  • Curator, Louise Jopling 1843-1933: Artist and Teacher, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow (Mar-Sept 2015).
  • Academic consultant and catalogue author, James McNeill Whistler: A Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (13 Sept -16 Nov 2014) and Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (6 Dec 2014-1 Mar 2015).
  • Co-curator (with M. F. MacDonald), exhibition and catalogue project An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Addison Gallery, Andover, Mass., and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (Oct 2013-Aug 2014).
  • Curator, James McNeill Whistler and Watercolour: Making and Meaning, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (6 Sept 2013-23 Feb 2014).

 


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