Elisabeth Rivard

Biography

Elisabeth (Lizzie) Rivard is a doctoral candidate supervised by Professor Douglas Fordham. Her dissertation, “Linear Warfare: Military and Maritime Draftsmanship in Eighteenth-Century British Art” examines professional drawing practices in the British army and Royal Navy. 

After receiving a B.A. in art history and European history from Northwestern University, she completed a MA through the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College. Her research has been supported by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, the Yale Center for British Art, the UCLA Clark Library’s Center for 17th-&18th-Century Studies, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. 

Lizzie is also the Barringer-Lindner Curatorial Fellow at The Fralin Museum of Art, organizing an exhibition entitled: Collection and Translation: Thomas Jefferson in Southern France. Through a display of prints, drawings, maps, rare books, and models, the exhibition considers how Jefferson mediated the exchange of objects and ideas between southern France and the United States in the decades after independence.