Artists Series: James McNeill Whistler

James Finch is a curator and art historian specializing in British art of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently assistant curator of 19th-century British art at Tate Britain, where he most recently curated Sargent and Fashion. Other exhibitions and displays of historic and modern British art at Tate that Finch has worked on include (as cocurator) The Rossettis and Turner's Modern World. Prior to joining Tate, Finch was curatorial assistant at the Royal Academy of Arts, and undertook his doctorate as a partnership between the University of Kent and Tate. He has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century art.