Previous Award Holders

2024

Nicole Gasparini: ‘Parisian garden pavilions commissioned or refurbished by women of the court in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century’

Silvia Papini: ‘Abdallah and the Odalisque (1699). The rediscovery of François Rivière’s once-lost Ottoman drawing’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Esmee Quodbach: ‘A Reconstruction of the Leo Nardus-Arnold van Buuren Collection and Its Fate during and after World War II’

Vladislava Rihova: ‘The art patronage of the pious widow Marie Manrique de Lara’

Harvey Shepherd: ‘Global Connections, Regional Identities: Reexamining The Republic of Mulhouse in the Eighteenth-Century Trade in Printed Indian Cottons, 1680-1798’

Iana Sokolova: ‘The Bodissoni, art dealers: a cosmopolitan family of the eighteenth century between Venice and Europe’


2023

Danijel Cikovic and  Iva Jazbec Tomaić: ‘Silk Patronage in the Late Medieval Adriatic’

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth: ‘Sèvres-Mania: The Craft of Ceramics Connoisseurship’

Chris Platts: ‘Paolo Veneziano’s Life, Paintings, and Patrons’

Philip Muijtjens: ‘The Dominican Nunnery of Santa Lucia, Pistoia’


2022

Vivien Bird: ‘Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824): Antiquary, Collector, Connoisseur’

Amanda Hilliam: ‘A Rediscovered Madonna and Child with Angels by Lorenzo D’Alessandro da Sanseverino’

Elisa Martini: ‘Fillippo Lauri and British Collectors of the 18/19 century’

Lucion Oriani: ‘Library of Alfonso II of Aragon King of Naples’

Eliot Rowlands: ‘Art advisor and connoisseur Harold Woodbury Parsons (1882–1967) and his role in the formation of the European collections at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City’

Natasha Shoory: ‘Women Collecting in 18th century Paris’


2021

Scholarship not awarded


2020

Scholarship not awarded


2019

Paula Fayos-Perez: ‘Goya in French Collections’

Melissa Gustin: ‘Neoclassical sculpture and the encountered antique’

Chiara Lo Giudice: ‘Jacopo Amigoni at the Spanish Court (1747–1752)’

Francesco Lofano: ‘The correspondence and inventories of Francesco de Mura’

Cristina S. Martinez: ‘Jane Hogarth printseller’

Valeria Paruzzo: ‘The market for paintings in Venice during the Austrian occupation (1815–1866)’

Rosie Razzall: ‘Paul Sandby’s collection’

Eleonora Nanà Scianna: ‘The Grandi archive and collection of prints and drawings’

Zdeñka Michalová: ‘Gerhard Jansen’s ‘Baptism of the Eunuch’ in the collection of Karl Eusebius von Lichtenstein’ (The Burlington Magazine)


2018

Natalia Budanova and Natalia Murray: ‘The gallery owners Nadezhda Dobychina and Klavida Mikhailova’    

Daniele Galleni: ‘The Coppedè atelier in Georgia’ 

Belinda Granata: ‘The Peretti Montalto paintings collection in the palazzo di San Lorenzo in Lucina’   

Ludovic Jouvet: ‘Collecting portrait medals in 17th and 18th century England’   

Erika Loic: ‘The Ripoll and Roha bibles’  (The Burlington Magazine) 

Emily Pegues: ‘The tomb of Mary of Burgundy in Bruges’  

Catherine Phillips: ‘The collection of Charles Cobenzl in Kraznodar’ 


2017

Louise Box: ‘The Duchess of Northumberland’s print albums’ 

Giulio Dalvit: ‘The Patronage of Vecchietta in Siena’

Gianluca Forgione: ‘The Apostolado of Duca d’Alcalà, Sevill’

Krisztina Ilko: ‘Augustinian Friars in Central Italy’

Rahel Kulka: ‘The Dukes of Prussia 1525-1618’

Anna Seidel: ‘Peretti Montalto sculpture collection and its display’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Francesca Stopper: ‘Venetian baroque and rococo goldsmiths’


2016

Scholarship not awarded


2015

Mattia Biffis: ‘Guido Reni’s Hermitage Dispute over the Immaculate Conception’

Mikolaj Getka-Kenig: ‘Polish monuments’

Zuzana Macurova: ‘Ignaz Chambrez and art theory’

Cara Rachele: ‘Early renaissance revival in Florentine neo-classical architecture’

Giovanni Russo: ‘The patronage of the Antoniazzo Romano triptych in the Prado’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Denis Ton: ‘Drawings by Piazzetta’


2014

Isabella Collavizza: ‘the 19th century London art market and Venetian paintings’

Margaret Dalivalle: ‘Salomon Gautier’

Margaret Iacono: ‘Charles Stewart Carstairs’

Angelo Lo Conte: ‘The Procaccini Academy’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Georgios Markou: ‘Art on Cyprus under Venetian rule’

Marco Mascolo: ‘Wilhelm Valentiner’s first American years’

Tara Prakash: ‘Prisoner statues in Old Kingdom Egypt; the Dinicaopoulos collection’

Laura Dickey Corey: ‘Mary Cassatt and the taste for Impressionism in America’


2013

Angelamaria Aceto: ‘Giovanni Giacomo de’ Rossi’s Insignium Romae Templorum Prospectus’

Giada Damen: ‘Andrea Vendramin’s museum’

Galina Mardilovich: ‘Russian printmaking and the West’

Agnès Penot-Lejeune: ‘La Maison Goupil in The Hague and London’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Katherine Reinhart: ‘The visual culture of the Académie Royale des Sciences’

Michael Ripps: ‘The letters of Robert Langton Douglas to Wilhelm von Bode’

Maria Cristina Terzaghi: ‘Charles I and his court, Gerbier, and the taste for Italian paintings’

Tomás Vales: ‘Jakob Matthias Schmutzer’


2012

Alessandra Becucci: ’17th century military nobility as patrons’

Anthony Gerbino: ‘Topographical maps in early modern France’

Christina Lindeman: ‘Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar’

Natalie Lussey: ‘Vavassore and the printed image in 17th century Venice’

Rachel Miller: ‘The global iconography of St Francis Xavier’

Alison Sherman: ‘The patronage of Pietro Lombardo’s choir screen in the Frari, Venice’

Luke Uglow: ‘Crowe and Cavalcaselle on Giorgione’


2011

Laura Bolick: ‘The art patronage of Cardinal Bessarion’

Gabriele Donati: ‘The sculptor Domenico Fancelli in Spain’

Ross Finocchio: ‘Henry Clay Frick: the making of an American Collector’

Jean-Francois Luneau: ‘ Art et industrie au XIXe siècle : L’Exposition universelle de Londres (1851) et le rapport Laborde’

Irene Mariani: ‘The artistic patronage of the Vespucci family’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Giusi Perniola: ‘The Napoleonic suppression in Turin: the point of view of Paris’

Giovanni Santucci: ‘The Talman albums at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’


2010

Floriana Conte: ‘Collecting of Salvator Rosa between Italy and Great Britain’

Silvia Davoli: ‘The collection of Both de Tauzia’

Christa Irwin: ‘Influence of Italian Renaissance Art on Colonial Peru’

Catherine Jenkins: ‘Fontainebleau Prints’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Alexey Larionov: ‘Early Netherlandish drawings at the Hermitage’

Jesse Locker: ‘Artemisia Gentileschi in Venice’

Fernando Loffredo: ‘The collecting history of Giambologna’s Samson and the Philistine’

Eleonora Pistis: ‘Designs for the Radcliffe library in Oxford’

Minou Schraven: ‘Festival culture of Spanish monarchy’


2009

Audrey Adamczak: ‘Nanteuil and Evelyn’

Marisa Bass: ‘Patronage of Jean Carondelet’

Suzanna Berger: ‘French seventeenth-century thesis prints’

Nathan Flis: ‘Francis Barlow’s possible French connections’

Antonia Gatward Cevizli: ‘Cultural consequences of Ottoman embassies to Italy’

Enrico Lucchese: ‘The Smith and Algarotti albums of Venetian caricatures’

Luciana Mocciola: ‘Charles Garnier’s drawings of Angevino tombs in Naples’

Chiara Teolato: ‘Roman decorative bronzes in Gustav III of Sweden’s collection’


2008

Yasmine Helfer: ‘Guglielmo della Porta tombs and patrons’ (The Burlington Magazine).

Martin Krummholz: ‘Count Johan Wenzel Gallas in London’

Michela Passini: ‘Debates around the ‘Raphael’ sketchbook in Venice’

Catherine Phillips: ‘The Cobenzl collection of drawings’

Nat Silver: ‘Pesellino and Herbert Horne’ 

Mickaël Szanto: ‘Art in relations between Rome and Paris under Paul V 1605-21’


2007

Anne-Marie Eze: ‘Abate Celotti and his collection of manuscript cuttings’

Francesco Freddolini: ‘Giovanni Baratta, the Duke of Chandos and British Diplomats as agents 1710-23’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Ketty Gottardo: ‘The Barberini collection of prints’ 

Alexander Marr: ‘Mutio Oddi and Milanese collections’

Susanne Meurer: ‘Critical reception of Durer, Holbein, and Grunewald’

Renata Novak Klemencic: ‘Architectural and artistic exchange between Dubrovnik and Naples in the 15th century’


2006

Simone Bertelli: ‘Late 19th-century Anglo-Saxon responses to the Sacro Monte at Varallo’

Marta Paloma Cacho Casal: ‘Velázquez’s library and intellectual world (in memory of Enriqueta Frankfort)’

Wolfgang Cillessen: ‘David Hess’s Hollandia Regenerata, counter-revolutionary visual journalism and pictorial propaganda’ 

Bianca De Divitiis: ‘Diomede Carafa, a 15th century Neapolitan patron and collector’

John Marciari: ‘Francesco Vanni’s drawings’

Xavier Salomon: ‘Cardinals’ patronage at the hermitage of Camaldoli around 1600’ 

Elena Sharnova: ‘Sergei Tretyakov’s collection of 19th century French painting’


2005

Julia Armstrong-Totten: ‘The picture dealer Michael Bryan’

Elisa Camporeale: ‘The Sienese exhibition of the Burlington Fine Arts Club’

Anne-Lise Desmas: ’18th century sculpture in Rome under Benedict XIII’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Marika Leino: ‘The collecting of Jacopo Francesco Arpino in Turin’

Birke-Siri Scherf: ‘Francesco Bembo and portraits of Bianca Cappello’


2004

Naoko Takahatake: ‘The Print Industry in Bologna’ 

Paola D’Agostino: ‘Cosimo Fanzago in Spain’ (The Burlington Magazine)

Francesca Pitacco: ‘The dispersal of the picture collection of Bartolomeo Vitturi’

Giovanna Brambilla: ‘The dispersal of the Guglielmo Lochis collection’

Miriam Kirch: ‘The portraits of Ottheinrich of Wittelsbach’


2003

Cristiano Giometti: ‘Domenico Guidi in Breslau and Spain’ 

Linda Borean: ‘Sasso, Armano and Abraham Hume’ 

Ippolita di Majo: ‘Padre Resta and southern Italian drawings’

Stefano Casu: ‘Cyriacus of Ancona’s drawings’ 

Irina Oryshkevich: ‘The history of the catacombs in Rome’ (The Burlington Magazine)


2002*

Kristel Smentek: ‘The business, collecting and connoisseurial practices of Pierre-Jean Mariette’

Elizabeth Goldring: ‘Elizabethan patronage and collecting, the Sidney/Leicester circle’

Martin Olin: ‘The collection of 17th century Roman decorative arts drawings acquired by Nicodemus Tessin’

*first year awards given