18th Century Collections Curatorial Department Internship Opportunity

The National Portrait Gallery is seeking to appoint an intern for six months [one day a week] with a proven interest in portraiture to gain experience in general curatorial work and research across a number of projects.  The main focus of the internship will be on the 18th-Century Collections but an interest in the portraiture of other periods is desirable.  Tasks may include answering public enquiries, scoping out ideas for the annual redisplay of Regency miniatures, research towards a forthcoming display on World War Two and the RAF at Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire and research support towards an academic study of portrait print collecting and extra-illustration in eighteenth-century Britain. As a large part of the internship will involve research in libraries and archives in London, it would be an advantage to have completed an MA or be engaged in a programme of PhD study.