Dr Philip McEvansoneya

Lecturer in the History of Painting

Research interests

Aspects of the history of art in Ireland and Britain with particular reference to the history of collections and the history of institutions.

Selected publications

• ‘The ‘Ardrahan Brooch’’, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 62 (2010), 19–29.
• ‘…merely an antiquarian curiosity': The purchase of the reliquary of St Lachtin's arm in 1884’, in C. Breathnach and C. Lawless eds., Visual, Material and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010), 48–58.
• ‘John Savile Lumley and Velázquez’ ‘Christ after the flagellation contemplated by the Christian soul’, Burlington Magazine, 152:1291 (2010), 660–664.
• ‘A thing to be seen.’ Creating the Crampton collection of English watercolours in the 1850s’, Journal of the History of Collections, 21:1 (2009), 95–110.
• ‘New light on ‘The Last Circuit of the Pilgrims at Clonmacnoise’ by George Petrie’, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 12 (2009), 24–37.

Teaching

My teaching areas are primarily in Irish, British and French art of the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. My current senior sophister course is on the Irish and British art world in the nineteenth century. I also contribute to courses on themes in northern art and on approaches to art history as well as to the introductory junior freshman courses.

Dr. McEvansoneya on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Department of the History of Art and Architecture,,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2.

Telephone: 00 353 1 8961012
Fax: 00 353 1 8961438
Email: pmcevans@tcd.ie