Dr Rachel Sloan was educated in the United States and England, earning a BA in English literature and history of art from Washington University in St Louis and an MA and PhD from ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Art, on Symbolism and artistic exchange between France and Britain in the late nineteenth century.
She subsequently served as graduate intern in the Drawings Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2009-2010) and as curatorial research fellow at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2010-2011). Rachel joined The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ as Assistant Curator of Works on Paper in 2012. Exhibitions she has curated include A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany (2014), Bruegel to Freud: Prints from the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Collection (2014), and Impressions of Modern Life: Prints from The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Gallery (2020, Royal Holloway, University of London).
Current/recent exhibitions and projects
- Impressions of Modern Life: Prints from The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Gallery (2020, Royal Holloway, University of London)
- A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany (2014, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Gallery, London and Morgan Library and Museum, New York)
- Bruegel to Freud: Prints from the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Collection (2014, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Gallery)
Recent publications
- ‘Head of a man: a new drawing by Alphonse Legros’, Master Drawings, vol. 59, no. 1, 2021, pp. 45-48.
- The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Collection: A Vision for Impressionism, London, 2019; essay on Stephen ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s collection of watercolours by J.M.W. Turner, pp. 339-41, and catalogue entries, pp. 114-19, 142-78, 188-98, 208, 234-52, 264, 274-82, 294-310, 314.
- ArtistsÌýatÌýwork, exh.Ìýcat., The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Gallery, London, 2018 (ed.).
- ‘Unequalled by anything except perhaps Albert Dürer: Burne-Jones and Northern works on paper’, in Melissa Buron, ed., Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2018, pp. 42-45.
Public engagement
- Study tour of fin-de-siècle Brussels, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Public Programmes
- Summer school course on European Symbolism, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Public Programmes (ran 2014-2019)
