Dr Lydia Hamlett is Academic Director in History of Art at ICE and a Fellow and Director of Studies in History of Art at Murray Edwards College. Her main research focus is on mural painting in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Before coming to ICE, Lydia was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History of Art at Cambridge. She was Programme Curator for the University of Cambridge Museums, when she co-curated Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration (2014), and a post-doctoral researcher on Court, Country, City: British Art 1660-1735 (AHRC), based at the University of York and Tate, where she curated Sketches for Spaces: History Painting and Architecture 1630–1730 (2013-14). Before this, she was on the research team for The Art of the Sublime at Tate (AHRC). Lydia was a curator at the National Trust from 2008-9 and at The Fitzwilliam Museum where she worked on exhibitions including From Reason to Revolution: Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2008) and Paul Mellon: A Cambridge Tribute (2008). She has taught History of Art at Cambridge since 2003.
