Amelia Smith grew up in Surrey and attended university in London, where she is currently completing her PhD. Amelia Smith graduated with a First class degree in History of Art at University College London in 2012, where she was awarded the Gombrich Prize (2011) and Zilkha Prize (2012). She then went on to gain an MA in Curating the Art Museum at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2013 which lead to a curatorial internship at the National Portrait Gallery, researching for the exhibition ‘The Great War in Portraits’ (2014). She has also taught a seminar on Portraiture at the Birkbeck School of Arts.
