Jennifer Howes is a widely published Art Historian who works on the art of South Asia and the impact of British imperialism.
Her new book, 'The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector’, uses painting and sculpture to examine the history and self-image of the East India Company, London’s oldest, longest surviving multinational corporation. Chapter one is free open access. Watch her book launch lecture here!
She has a PhD in Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies and worked for 15 years at the British Library as Curator of Visual Arts, specialising in the India Office Collections. She has received awards from the British Academy, the John Paul Getty Foundation, The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation and the Shastri Institute.
