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Nicola Figgis is a lecturer at the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin, specialising in seventeenthânineteenth century Irish painting and aspects of the Grand Tour. She is co-author, with Brendan Rooney, of Irish Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, volume i (2002).