Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Dr Philip McEvansoneya

Lecturer in the History of Painting

Research interests

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

Selected Recent Publications

‘Ellen Duncan and the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin’ in The Museum is Me! Early Women Curators and the Making of Institutional Collections, eds. Rachel Elsner and Laia Anguix-Vilches, London, Routledge, forthcoming, 2026
‘More light on Henry O'Neill’, Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, forthcoming, 2026
‘The Cashel Bell: a lost drawing by George Petrie’, Archaeology Ireland, 39:2 (2025), 30 – 33
‘A national body for the visual arts: the early history of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1823-1860’, in Routledge Companion to Irish Art, eds. F. Cullen and F. Barber, London, Routledge, 2025, 9 – 19
‘Benefactor and watercolourist: Joseph Stafford Gibson’, Irish Arts Review, 41:4 (2024), 90 - 97

Teaching

My teaching areas are primarily in Irish, British, Dutch and French art of the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. My current senior sophister module is on the Irish and British art world in the long nineteenth century. I also run a module on museums and display. In addition I contribute to the introductory junior freshman modules, the module on Gender, history and culture, as well as to the MPhil courses Art+Ireland, and Public History.