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Joanna Sheers Seidenstein is assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She earned her doctorate in 2018 with a specialization in seventeenth-century Dutch art, but she previously enjoyed many years working with Susan Galassi on nineteenth-century topics at The Frick Collection.

Eloise Owens worked closely with Susan on several exhibitions as a curatorial assistant at The Frick Collection. She holds a master’s in art history with a specialty in eighteenth-century British art.

Margot Bernstein is a lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where she completed a doctoral dissertation entitled “Carmontelle’s Profile Pictures and the Things That Made Them Modern” in 2020. She is a specialist in eighteenth-century French art and material culture. She had the pleasure of working with Susan Galassi on a 2017 J. M. W. Turner exhibition at The Frick Collection.