Linda Docherty discusses "Encircling Robert Louis Stevenson: The Origins and Afterlife of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Profile Portrait.” Docherty is Associate Professor of Art History, Emerita at Bowdoin College.

Barbara Creed discusses "The Interactive Eye: Portraiture in Painting and Film.” Creed is professor of Arts the University of Melbourne.

Steven Jacobs discusses "Noir Portraits: Hollywood’s Take on British Portraiture.” Jacobs is professor of Art History at Ghent University.

Jack Hartnell discusses "Specimen, Surgeon, Self: Three Medical Portraits and Four Hundred Years." Hartnell is Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow​ at Columbia University.

Sean Willcock discusses "The Politics of Interaction between British and Indian Portraits during the Victorian Period.” Willcock has held teaching positions at the University of York and Queen Mary, University of London.

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu discusses "Interaction and ‘Interfacing’ in Lawrence Alma Tadema’s Portrait of Ignacy Jan Paderewski.” Chu is Professor of Art History and Museum Studies and director of the M.A. in Museum Professions program within the department of Art, Music, and Design, at Seton Hall University.

Juliet Carey discusses "Faces for a House Party: British Portraits at Waddesdon Manor.” Carey is curator at Codart, Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide.

Caroline Fowler discusses "Raphael’s Apostles and Portraiture in the Eighteenth Century.” Fowler a scholar at The Getty Research Center and is A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC.

Brigid Von Preussen discusses "Wedgwood’s Portrait Medallions.” Von Preussen is working on her PhD at Columbia University, which examines the relationship between Neoclassicism, commerce, and inter-medial reproduction in late eighteenth-century British design and art.

Adam Eaker discusses "The Scene of the Sitting." Eaker is guest curator of the Frick’s exhibition Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture (March 2–June 5, 2016).