David Bindman retired as Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art, University College London in 2005 and was Visiting Professor of the History of Art, Harvard University, 2010-16. He has written books on William Blake, William Hogarth, L.F. Roubiliac, Canova and Thorvaldsen, and on the Briitish response to the French Revolution. More recently he has worked on ideas of race and art, is the author of Ape to Apollo and is editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr of the series The Image of the Black in Western Art.
Dr Bruce Boucher is Deborah Loeb Brice Director of Sir John Soane's Museum. He taught for over twenty years at University College London and is the author of books on Palladio, and on Italian Sculpture. He is a corresponding member of the Ateneo Veneto in Venice and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Frederic Ogee is Professor of British Literature and Art History at Universite Paris Diderot. His publications include two collections of essays on William Hogarth, as well as 'Better in France?' The circulation of ideas across the Channel in the 18th century (Lewisburg, 2005), Diderot and European Culture (Oxford, 2006), and J.M.W. Turner, Les Paysages absolus (Paris, 2010). In 2006-07, he curated the first-ever Hogarth exhibition for the Louvre. From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of Tate Britain's Advisory Council. He is currently finishing a book on Thomas Lawrence and working on an anthology of British artists' writings.
Dr Jacqueline Riding is author of Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion (2016), Basic Instincts: Love, Passion and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore (2017) and Peterloo (2018). She is currently writing a biography of Hogarth. She is a fellow of Birkbeck College, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Trustee of Turner's House.