Caitlin Blackwell Baines is an independent art historian, specialising in Georgian art and visual culture. Born in Toronto, Canada, Caitlin completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario shortly before coming to the United Kingdom in 2007. She completed a Master’s degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art (2008) and a PhD at the University of York (2014). From 2015–2019, she worked at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, serving as Inaugural Bute Fellow, and later, Research Curator. Her recent publications include Art of Power: Masterpieces from the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart (Prestel, 2017) and 20 Masterpieces at Mount Stuart (Scala, 2020). Caitlin’s current research project focuses on the Beaumont family art collection at Bywell Hall, Northumberland. For this, she received a Paul Mellon Centre Research Continuity Grant. She is also now working on a popular non-fiction book on the cultural history of ‘haunted houses’. Other research interests include eighteenth-century graphic satire, costume, material culture, and the social history of country houses.