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 =Dr Simon Lee=

Simon has taught in the Department of History of Art since 1986. He has received grants and scholarships from the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the Leverhulme Foundation. In addition to University teaching he frequently give lectures within the framework of the Education Department of the National Gallery London. In 2003 he was consultant for the programmes on David, Goya and Delacroix in the second series of Great Artists for Channel 5. Simon Lee's teaching is focused on aspects of European painting and sculpture from the 17th to mid-19th centuries, especially that of the Counter Reformation and the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. Post-Graduate supervisions have included George Romney's portraiture, Goya and the carnival tradition in Spain and the architectural restorations of George Gilbert Scott. His area of research interest covers European 18th and 19th century painting and sculpture with reference to the French and Spanish enlightenments and Napoleonic conquests and colonialism. He has a particular interest in Jacques-Louis David and his pupils, Goya and his Spanish contemporaries, Delacroix and Canova.
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