Who got the job
Senior curator, 18th-century collections, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, EdinburghAdvertised: MJ online October 2013
Lucinda Lax
What attracted you to this post?
The opportunity to combine my love of 18th-century painting with my fascination for the history of the period: the Jacobite uprisings, the Scottish Enlightenment and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.
What’s been the most interesting part of the job so far?
Working daily with the works of Allan Ramsay. His work has a vividness that has few rivals.
Other posts
Editor for an academic art history publisher, a managerial role in a Bond Street gallery.
Qualifications
BA, MA, PhD history of art.