Karen Hearn

Karen Hearn FSA is a British art historian and curator. She has Master's degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of London.^[1] She is an Honorary Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University College London.^[2] From 1992 to 2012 Hearn was the curator of sixteenth and seventeenth century British art at the Tate where she curated major exhibitions on Tudor and Jacobean paintings, Anthony van Dyck, and Rubens. She was co-curator of Royalist Refugees at The Rubenshuis in Antwerp. She has also curated exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, London, The Harley Gallery, and the Foundling Museum.^[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2005.^[1]

She researches, writes, teaches, lectures and broadcasts on art produced in Britain between about 1500 and about 1710, and in particular on the numerous Netherlandish-British artistic and cross-cultural links of that period.^{[citation needed]}

Hearn also writes on the British career of Anthony van Dyck. In 2009 she curated the Tate Britain exhibition ‘Van Dyck & Britain’, and has subsequently published an essay on his London studio/workshop (2018).^{[citation needed]}

For many years she has taught at university level on the centrality of migrant artists to 16th- and 17th-century (Tudor and Stuart period) British art.^{[citation needed]}