As a lecturer in art history at the Courtauld Institute, Esther Chadwick specialises in 18th-century British art – with a focus on political art in the age of revolutions, print culture and the visual culture of slavery. She has curated or co-curated exhibitions including ‘Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain’ at the Yale Center for British Art in 2014; ‘A Revolutionary Legacy: Haiti and Toussaint Louverture’ at the British Museum in 2018; ‘William Blake’s Universe’ at the Fitzwilliam and ‘Entangled Pasts: Art Colonialism and Change’ at the Royal Academy (both 2024). Her most recent book, The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain was published in 2024; her next major research project extends her interest in the global contexts of British art, looking particularly at cultural connections between Britain and Haiti in the years after the Haitian Revolution.