Katharine Eustace is an art historian and curator. After training at the Victoria and Albert Museum, she worked with outstanding collections of art at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (1978-85), the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford (1992-2001), and the National Portrait Gallery, London (2001-5), where she was curator for the Twentieth Century Collections. As founder-curator of the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick (1985-1992), she also curated the Rugby Collection (Artists of Promise and Renown: The Rugby Collection of 20th Century British Art, 1986). While at the Ashmolean, with its fine group of Camden Town paintings (see her Twentieth Century Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks series, 1999), she was responsible for the acquisition of major examples of Sickert's work from the Sands Collection. She has degrees in History from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London. She is currently editor of the Sculpture Journal, published by Liverpool University Press.