Peter Trippi is editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine (New York). In 2002 he published 'J.W. Waterhouse' (Phaidon) and he then co-curated (with Liz Prettejohn and Robert Upstone) the touring exhibition 'J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite' (2008–10). Recently he co-curated the touring exhibition 'Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity' (2016–17) with Liz Prettejohn and Ivo Blom.

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Hylas and the Nymphs (detail; 1896), J.W. Waterhouse. Manchester Art Gallery

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