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Stuart Moss

Stuart L.A. Moss is a PhD Candidate in Art History at University College London and currently a Doctoral Placement Student in VARI & the NAL, working on the transcription and contextualization of Henry Cole’s Travel Diaries of journeys to Vienna in 1851 and 1863. His PhD research focuses on the circumstances and consequences of the removal and dispersal of large numbers of art works during the dissolution of Bavarian monasteries in 1803. In particular, he investigates how the status and meanings of these works, now found in museums across the world, continues to be impacted by the complex relationships of early museum officials, scholars and the art market at the time.