Mia Jackson
Waddesdon Manor

Artisans in the Archive

Mia Jackson, curator of decorative arts at Waddesdon Manor, a Rothschild chateau in Buckinghamshire, England, will talk about the role archives have played in her research in to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French decorative arts. From André-Charles Boulle and his bar bill, to a Sèvres painter’s battles with his bosses, come and find out how archives can illuminate the personalities of the people who made the objects we study.

Mia Jackson has been curator of decorative arts at Waddesdon Manor since 2017. She studied French and Philosophy at the University of Oxford then completed an MA in eighteenth-century French decorative arts at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her doctoral thesis entitled “André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732) and Paper: Prints and Drawings in the Workshop of an Ébéniste du Roi” was completed at Queen Mary, University of London in 2016. She previously worked in the Prints and Drawings Department at the British Museum, the Wallace Collection, and English Heritage. Eighteenth-century France is her area of expertise, in particular the links between works on paper and the decorative arts.

38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

No registration required. Coffee and cookies will be served.