Dr John Bonehill Awarded Fellowhip at Yale Center for British Art

08/06/2006

Dr John Bonehill Awarded Fellowhip at Yale Center for British Art

Dr John Bonehill, who teaches undergraduate Art History and on the MA in Art History at Richmond, has been awarded a one month fellowship this summer at Yale Center for British Art founded by Paul Mellon. His project, entitled 'William Hayley and the Visual Arts', will examine the relationship between such artists as Romney, Wright of Derby, and William Hodges and the poet William Hayley. Despite being a celebrity in his day, Hayley has been much-neglected by scholars - unlike the key artists he influenced. The Yale Center for British Art houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. Part of Dr Bonehill's project will also involve research at the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington. His work on Wright of Derby is due to be published as 'Laying Siege to the Royal Academy: Wright of Derby’s "View of Gibralter"' in the journal 'Art History' in early 2007, and he is also in the final stages of a major volume with Ashgate (co-authored with Matthew Craske at Oxford Brookes University) entitled 'Theatres of Mars: The Visual Arts and the Public Culture of War in Hanoverian Britain'.

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