I received my Ph.D. from the University of Missouri — Columbia in 2018. My dissertation, titled “After Watteau, Nicolas Lancret and the Creation of the Hunt Luncheon,” explored how Nicolas Lancret manipulated artistic conventions to establish a new type of genre painting in the early 18th century. My current manuscript project expands on this theme, discussing how dining scenes depicted by Lancret and other artists can be interpreted as a form of elite self-fashioning, akin to how scholars have analyzed dancing, theater, fashion, games, and conversation during the same period.
Sarah Sylvester Williams
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601.974.1985
Assistant Professor of Art History
Director, Museum Studies Program
Education
- Ph.D. in Art History, University of Missouri — Columbia
- M.A. in Art History, University of Missouri — Kansas City
- B.A. in History, University of Missouri — Kansas City
Expertise
- 18th-Century French Painting
- Interests in Modern Art
- Decorative Arts and Architecture
- Modern and Contemporary Architecture