Dr Samuel Raybone
- Lecturer in History of Art (History of Art)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1440-1732Biography
Samuel Raybone is a Lecturer in History of Art, specialising in Impressionism. He completed his PhD in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2016. Prior to joining Glasgow in 2025, he taught at the Universities of Aberystwyth, where he spent seven years, Leicester, Essex, Oxford, and the Courtauld.
Samuel is co-founder of Impressionist Futures, an international research group advancing innovative research and cultivating collaboration; a member of the editorial board of Art History and the scientific committee of Le programme Impressionnisme (université Paris Nanterre); and has peer-reviewed for journals including Art History, Dix-Neuf, and Konsthistorisk tidskrift. Samuel was a member of the QAA Subject Benchmark Review for History of Art, Architecture & Design (2025/2026); and served on the Association for Art History’s Higher Education Committee (2023-2026).
Research interests
Samuel is a specialist in the history of Impressionism, with focuses on:
- Reassessing the career of the painter and patron Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) through the lens of artistic labour
- Revealing the under-appreciated impact of colour-printed ephemera (especially chromolithography) on the development of Impressionist painting and printmaking
- Surfacing the racial and national discourses that underwrote the reception of Impressionism in Wales and the Celtic contexts of the British Empire
- Mapping the transnational networks and mobilities that shaped the collection and display of Impressionism in global peripheries
- Reframing the narrative of international Impressionisms as founded on the extraction, transport, and combustion of coal
Publications
Prior publications
Website
Samuel Raybone (2025) Gustave Caillebotte Impressionnismes.fr Samuel Raybone.
Article
Samuel Raybone (2025) "The quill is my plough" Art History Samuel Raybone.
Samuel Raybone (2018) Gustave Caillebotte’s Interiors: Working Between Leisure and Labor nonsite.org Aberystwyth University.
Samuel Raybone (2017) 'A millionaire who paints in his spare time'. The social history of art and the multiple rediscoveries of Gustave Caillebotte Aberystwyth University.
Samuel Raybone (2015) Notes Towards Practicing Žižekian Ideology Critique as an Art Historical Methodology International Journal of Žižek Studies Aberystwyth University.
Book Review
Samuel Raybone (2024) Review of Looking Out by Peter Lord International Journal of Welsh Writing in English Samuel Raybone. ISSN 2053-1915 (doi: 10.16995/wwe.11093)
Samuel Raybone (2024) Review of Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Bridget Alsdorf H-France Review Samuel Raybone.
Samuel Raybone (2021) Review of Mapping Impressionist Painting in Transnational Contexts edited by Emily C. Burns and Alice M. Rudy Price and Globalizing Impressionism and Reception, Translation, and Transnationalism edited by Alexis Clark and Frances Fowle Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Aberystwyth University. (doi: 10.29411/ncaw.2021.20.3.19)
Samuel Raybone (2021) Thoroughly Modern Models Oxford Art Journal Samuel Raybone. ISSN 1741-7287 (doi: 10.1093/oxartj/kcaa028)
Samuel Raybone (2017) Review of Gustave Caillebotte. Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887 by Michael Marrinan Burlington Magazine Aberystwyth University.
Samuel Raybone (2016) Later Realism's Fifteen Minutes Art History Samuel Raybone. ISSN 0141-6790 (doi: 10.1111/1467-8365.12221)
Book Section
Samuel Raybone (2024) Caillebotte’s ‘Richesse Laborieuse’ Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men Samuel Raybone. ISBN 9781606069448
Samuel Raybone (2023) Provincialising impressionism: the Davies sisters, French impressionism, and Welsh identity in 1913 Collecting Impressionism Aberystwyth University. ISBN 8836647456
Samuel Raybone (2023) Provincialiser l'impressionnisme Collectionner l'Impressionnisme Aberystwyth University. ISBN 9788836647446
Book
Samuel Raybone (2020) Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter Aberystwyth University. ISBN 150133994X
Other
Samuel Raybone (2016) Puvis (de Chavannes), Pierre-Cécile (1824–1898) Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Aberystwyth University. (doi: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM900-1)
Grants
Since 2021, Samuel has won £62,667 of grant funding for primary research, teaching-buy out, knowledge exchange, dissemination, and training.
Supervision
Samuel is currently co-supervising an AHRC-funded CDP project on the Welsh modernist Augustus John.
He welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students working on and across the art, visual, and material cultures of France and Britain in the long nineteenth century.
Teaching
Samuel currently convenes honours courses about The Pre-Raphaelites and Early Impressionism, as well as the team-taught course History of Art 2B.
