Dr Sarah Symmons-Goubert, a lecturer at Essex Univerity, has won numerous awards for her academic workand was part-author and organiser of two international exhibitions on British Romantic Painting and the art ofthe sculptor John Flaxman. She has published five art-historical books including Art and Ideas Goya (1998)from Phaidon Press. Her latest work is Goya A Life in Letters. She combines detailed research into Spanishart with broader interests in Romanticism, Neo-classicism and British sculpture and painting before the FirstWorld War.