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

• "Hottentot Venus": the exhibition of Sara Baartman in Dublin in 1812’, History Ireland, 21:1 (2013), pp. 26-8.
• ‘The black figure in Angelica Kauffman's Ely group portrait’, History Ireland, 20:2 (2012), pp. 26-8.
• ‘The purchase of the Tara brooch in 1868: collecting Irish antiquities for Ireland’, Journal of the History of Collections, 24:1 (2012), pp. 77-88.
• ‘Sir William Gregory and the origins and establishment of the Colombo Museum’, in Sarah Longair and John McAleer eds., Curating empire: Museums and the British imperial experience, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, pp. 188-206.

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