EMILY M. WEEKS

Principal Art Historian

Emily M. Weeks received her Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Art at Yale University in December 2004. Currently she is an independent art historian and consultant for museums, academic institutions, auction houses, and private collectors in America, Britain, Europe, and MENASA region. She also serves as Principal Lecturer in the Histories of Art at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Dr. Weeks’s areas of expertise include Orientalism and nineteenth-century British and European visual culture; she is the acknowledged expert on the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme and the leading authority on Ludwig Deutsch and John Frederick Lewis. Dr. Weeks has lectured widely on these topics and artists, both in the United States and internationally, and has acted as a consultant and guest lecturer for universities, museums, and other academic and commercial venues, as well as for the BBC. Dr. Weeks has organized and contributed to a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions, including The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, 1830-1925 (2008-2009; organized by Tate Britain). A major bicentennial exhibition dedicated to Gérôme’s art and influence, co-curated by Dr. Weeks, opened in Doha, Qatar, in November 2024. Dr. Week’s extensive list of publications includes contributions to scholarly anthologies, academic and popular journals, books on Orientalist art, numerous exhibition and auction catalogues, book and exhibition reviews, and content for museum and institutional websites. Her first book, Cultures Crossed: John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) and the Art of Orientalism, was published by Yale University Press in 2014. A book on Orientalist picture frames and a critical catalogue featuring Ludwig Deutsch’s Egyptian and Orientalist works are in progress. Dr. Weeks is also currently compiling a revised catalogue raisonné for Jean-Léon Gérôme, which will be published in digital format. For more on this project, please visit @theofficialgerome.