Hugh Belsey, a graduate of the Universities of Manchester and Birmingham, has lectured to groups in Europe, America, Australia and Britain. For twenty-three years he was curator of Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury and in 2004 he was awarded an MBE in recognition of his museum work. He has taught at the Universities of Melbourne and Buckingham and he has also appeared as an expert witness in the BBC series Fake or Fortune? and in BBC4’s Britain’s Lost Masterpieces. Yale University Press published his catalogue of portraits by Thomas Gainsborough in 2019 which was awarded the William W B Berger Prize for Art History. Last autumn he curated an exhibition of the work of the Anglo-Italian artist, Thomas Patch at the Lewis Walpole Library in Connecticut and he is currently writing a catalogue of the work of Gainsborough Dupont.