Jan Stuart
Keeper
Asia with speciality in China
Department: Asia
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8359
Email: jstuart @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Jan Stuart is Keeper of the Department of Asia. In addition to
department administration, her area of academic specialty is
Chinese art and material culture with special emphasis on the Ming
and Qing dynasties (fourteenth to early twentieth
century).
Research interests include paintings, decorative arts, garden
design and Buddhist sculpture. She will take part in the
department’s survey to re-evaluate and update the records of
Chinese paintings and she is engaged in a project on the study of
display practice in late imperial China.
Before joining the Museum in 2006, she was a curator of Chinese
art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and the
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which together constitute the national
museum of Asian art in the United States.
Current British Museum projects
Participation in the department’s exhibition
programmes
Active role in department acquisitions
Previous British Museum projects
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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Editoral boards:
Ars Orientalis, editorial board since
1991.
Oriental Art, editorial board, since March 1995, and
special guest editor for Autumn 1997 issue
Publications
Most recent publications
J. Stuart, 'Chinese Art at the Freer and Sackler gallery,'
Arts of Asia, Jan-Feb (2006)
J. Stuart, 'Imperial Portraiture' (p. 64-68) and
extended catalogue entries on 11 Kangxi-, Yongzheng-, and
Qianlong-period paintings (pp. 384-387;404-5;419), in Evelyn Rawski
and Jessica Rawson, eds., China: The Three Emperors,
1662–1795 (London: Royal Academy, November 2005).
J. Stuart, 'The Face in Life and Death:
Mimesis and Chinese Ancestor Portraits,' in W. Hong and K. Tsiang,
(eds.), Face and Body in Chinese Art (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University, 2005), pp. 197–228
J. Stuart, ' "Distant Thoughts among
Antiquities", a painting from "Twelve Beauties at Leisure Painted
for Prince Yinzhen" ' , for The Royal Academy
Magazine (November 2005)
J. Stuart, 'A Gift of Chinese
Furniture to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,’ Orientations
(November 2004)
J. Stuart, ‘Dressing Chinese Tables and
Chairs: Furnishing Textiles in Imperial China,’ Oriental
Art, vol.XLVII, no. 4 (2001), p. 38–46
J. Stuart and Evelyn S. Rawski, Worshiping
the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits (Washington,
D.C. Freer+Sackler Galleries and Stanford University Press,
2001)