21 - 27 June 2027 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury

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Culture

Sarah Grant

Dr Sarah Grant is a Senior Curator in the Department of Art, Architecture, Photography & Design at the V&A and curator of the recent Marie Antoinette Style exhibition. Sarah holds a doctorate in eighteenth-century French art from the University of Oxford and a Masters in eighteenth-century French decorative arts from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her books include Female Portraiture and Patronage in Marie-Antoinette’s CourtToiles de Jouy: French printed cottons 1760–1830 and Style and Satire: Fashion in Print 1777-1927. Her V&A exhibitions include Modern Masters: Matisse, Picasso, Dali & Warhol; Fashion Fantasies, and The Neoclassical vision of Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot.

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