PETER TRIPPI is president of Projects in 19th-Century Art, Inc., the firm he established in 2006 to pursue a range of research, writing, and curating opportunities. Also in 2006 he became editor of the bimonthly magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur (www.fineartconnoisseur.com) after serving three years as director of New York’s Dahesh Museum of Art.

In 2002, Phaidon Press (London) published Trippi’s monograph J W Waterhouse, which reassesses the Victorian painter and Royal Academician best known for his Lady of Shalott at Tate Britain. Trippi is now guest-curating a Waterhouse retrospective that will open at the Groninger Museum (Netherlands) in December 2008, then visit London’s Royal Academy and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Trippi co-founded the peer-reviewed, scholarly journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (www.19thc-artworldwide.org) and serves on the board of Historians of British Art .

He received a B.A. in history and art history from the College of William and Mary; an M.A. in visual arts administration from New York University; and an M.A. in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.