Dr Joyce Helen Townsend
- Honorary Professor (School of Culture & Creative Arts)
Publications
2026
de Montfort, Patricia 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247, Townsend, Joyce Helen, MacDonald, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799, McCree, Jane and Germán, Elisa
(2026)
The transition from line to paint in Whistler’s early oil portraits 1855-1859.
Tate Papers,
(Accepted for Publication)
Townsend, Joyce Helen, de Montfort, Patricia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and MacDonald, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799
(2026)
Whistler’s late portraits of Ethel and Rosalind Birnie Philip: a technical study.
Tate Papers,
(Accepted for Publication)
2025
de Montfort, Patricia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Townsend, Joyce Helen
(2025)
Recent Technical Studies on Whistler Oils at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.
Whistler's Finish (Workshop 1), Online, 07-08 May 2025.
2020
MacDonald, Margaret F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799, Dunn, Joanna and Townsend, Joyce H.
(2020)
Painting Joanna Hiffernan.
In: MacDonald, Margaret F. (ed.)
The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler.
Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 33-45.
ISBN 9780300254501
2012
Hermens, Erma and Townsend, Joyce (2012) Binding media. In: Stoner, J.H. and Rushfield, R. (eds.) Conservation of Easel Paintings. Series: Routledge series in conservation and museology. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 207-213. ISBN 9780750681995
Articles
de Montfort, Patricia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247, Townsend, Joyce Helen, MacDonald, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799, McCree, Jane and Germán, Elisa
(2026)
The transition from line to paint in Whistler’s early oil portraits 1855-1859.
Tate Papers,
(Accepted for Publication)
Townsend, Joyce Helen, de Montfort, Patricia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and MacDonald, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799
(2026)
Whistler’s late portraits of Ethel and Rosalind Birnie Philip: a technical study.
Tate Papers,
(Accepted for Publication)
Book Sections
MacDonald, Margaret F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-0799, Dunn, Joanna and Townsend, Joyce H.
(2020)
Painting Joanna Hiffernan.
In: MacDonald, Margaret F. (ed.)
The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler.
Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 33-45.
ISBN 9780300254501
Hermens, Erma and Townsend, Joyce (2012) Binding media. In: Stoner, J.H. and Rushfield, R. (eds.) Conservation of Easel Paintings. Series: Routledge series in conservation and museology. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 207-213. ISBN 9780750681995
Conference or Workshop Item
de Montfort, Patricia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-8247 and Townsend, Joyce Helen
(2025)
Recent Technical Studies on Whistler Oils at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.
Whistler's Finish (Workshop 1), Online, 07-08 May 2025.