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Silvia Davoli Editor

Silvia Davoli is Curator at Strawberry Hill House and Garden (The Horace Walpole Collection), UK and Research Associate at the University of Oxford, UK. Specialising in the history of collecting, connoisseurship and provenance, Silvia has published numerous articles internationally on Italian, French and English collecting.

Tom Stammers was Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham; in September 2024 he became Reader in Cultural and Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK. A specialist in collecting, Tom has published widely on French, British and European cultural history in the long 19th century.