Bénédicte Miyamoto

is an Associate Professor of British History at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle researching artistic and cultural markets, and a 2019 Short-Term Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her research focuses on the artistic culture of Britain, 1600-1800, and the archaeology of artists’ reading practices, through workshop books and drawing manuals. More on the use of these can be found in her chapter “The Influence of Drawing Manuals on the British Practice and Reception of Fancy Pictures,” in Percival and Adrien (eds), Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool UP, April 2020; and “Significant Red: Watercolour and the Uses of Red Pigments in Military and Architectural Conventions” XVII-XVIII (2019)