Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants
This new category of grant is awarded by The Andrew Wyld Fund and is administered by the Paul Mellon Centre. The awards will be made annually tostudent/s working on a topic in the field of British works of art on paper of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including watercolours, prints and drawings.
Andrew Wyld was a well-known and much respected London art dealer, specialising in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British watercolours. As a young man his only training was to look at as many works of art as possible. For Andrew it was more important to look at and handle original works, and to question and judge their relative merits, than to study photographs and reproductions in books or online. After his death in 2011, a group of friends and family decided to set up a fund in his memory; its aim is to enable students to do exactly as he did, namely to look at, and judge, works of art on paper for themselves.
Scope
The Andrew Wyld Research Support Grantis administered by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on behalf of the Andrew Wyld Fund. One or two grants will be awarded annually to a student/s working on a topic in the field of British works of art on paper of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including watercolours, prints and drawings.
The award is to allow students to see and research works on paper at first hand. Grants may be used towards the expenses incurred in visiting prints and drawings collections, galleries, museums, sale rooms and other institutions for the purpose of studying British works of art on paper of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including watercolours, prints and drawings.
Funding
The Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant is for up to £2,000 and is awarded to assist with travel and subsistence in connection with research as outlined above. Applicants will be required to provide a detailed budget of up to £2,000 to show how the award would be expended.
As a guide only we suggest the following figures would be appropriate when calculating a budget:
- Fares (in full)
- Accommodation (up to a maximum of £100 per night)
- Daily subsistence (£40 per day)
Eligibility
Undergraduate students undertaking dissertation research, graduate and doctoral students are eligible to apply in the Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant category, with the stipulation that their research is of a scholarly nature and falls within the remit outlined above.
Final Report
The successful applicant/s will be expect to submit a short report on completion of the research which the grant has helped fund. The support of an Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant should also be acknowledged in any subsequent article or publication.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/fellowships-and-grants/opportunities/andrew-wyld-research-support-grants/season/autumn-2016