{{Short description|British art historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:George Stubbs - Reapers - Google Art Project.jpg|thumbnail|''Reapers'' by [[George Stubbs]], 1795. Enamel on Wedgwood biscuit earthenware. This image appeared on the cover of the catalogue for ''Toil and Plenty''.]] '''Christiana Joan Elizabeth Ruth Payne''' (born March 1956) is a British [[art historian]] at [[Oxford Brookes University]] who is a specialist in genre painting and the depiction of the natural environment in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
==Early life and education== Christiana Payne was born Christiana Knowles in Oxford in March 1956.<ref>[http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bmd%2fb%2f1956%2f2%2faz%2f000811%2f069 England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription.] Retrieved 7 March 2016.</ref> She graduated in modern history from [[St. Catherine's College, Oxford]], and then completed an MA and PhD at the [[Courtauld Institute of Art]], University of London<ref name=brook/> where her PhD was supervised by [[Michael Kitson]].<ref>Payne, Christiana. (1993) ''Toil and plenty: Images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890''. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. ix. {{ISBN|0300057733}}</ref>
==Career== Payne is professor of [[history of art]] at Oxford Brookes University<ref name=brook>[http://history.brookes.ac.uk/research/History-of-Art-and-Visual-Culture/prof.asp?ID=589 Professor Christiana Payne MA, PhD.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220085109/http://history.brookes.ac.uk/research/History-of-Art-and-Visual-Culture/prof.asp?ID=589 |date=2016-12-20 }} Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 7 March 2016.</ref> where she specialises in genre painting and the depiction of the natural environment in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1993, Payne was one of the organisers of, and wrote the catalogue for, the exhibition ''Toil and plenty: Images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890'' which ran at the Nottingham University Art Gallery from October to November 1993 before transferring to the [[Yale Center for British Art]] from January to March 1994.<ref>Payne, p. vii.</ref> The catalogue for the exhibition was published under the exhibition title by [[Yale University Press]] in 1993.
==Family== Christiana Payne is married<ref>[http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bmd%2fm%2f1979%2f3%2fpz%2f000034%2f143 England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription.] Retrieved 7 March 2016.</ref> with a daughter.<ref>Payne, p. x.</ref>
==Selected publications== ===Authored books=== *''Toil and plenty: Images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890''. Yale University Press, 1993. {{ISBN|0300057733}} *''Rustic simplicity: Scenes of cottage life in nineteenth-century British art''. Djanogly Art Gallery/Lund Humphries, 1998. *''Singing from the walls: The life and work of Elizabeth Forbes''. Sansom and Company, 2000. (With Judith Cook and [[Melissa Hardie]]) *''John Brett in Cornwall''. [[Sansom and Company]], 2006. (With Charles Brett and [[Mike Hickox]]) *''Where the sea meets the land: Artists on the coast in nineteenth-century Britain''. Sansom and Company, 2007. *''Objects of affection: Pre-Raphaelite portraits by John Brett''. [[Barber Institute of Fine Arts]], 2010. (With [[Ann Sumner]]) *''John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter''. Yale University Press, 2010.<ref>[http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300165753/john-brett ''John Brett Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter''.] Yale University Press. Retrieved 7 March 2016.</ref>
===Edited works=== *''Prospects for the nation: Recent essays in British landscape, 1750–1880''. Yale University Press, 1997. (Studies in British Art, 4) (Edited with [[Michael Rosenthal (art historian)|Michael Rosenthal]] and [[Scott Wilcox]])<ref>[http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300063837/prospects-nation ''Prospects for the Nation''.] Yale University Press. Retrieved 7 March 2016.</ref> *"The dress of the poor 1750-1900: Old and new perspectives", special issue of ''[[Textile History]]'', May 2002. (Edited with Steven King) *''English accents: The reception of British art abroad, 1776–1855''. [[Ashgate Publishing|Ashgate]], 2004. (Edited with [[William Vaughan (art historian)|William Vaughan]]) *''The power of the sea: Making waves in British art 1790–2014''. Sansom and Company, 2014. (Edited with [[Janette Kerr]])
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.christianapayne.com/ Official website]
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