Kathy Adler obtained her first degree in South Africa and then studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She took early retirement from her position as Director of Education at the National Gallery, London, after eleven years in that role. Before that, she ran the Art and Architecture program in the Department of Continuing Education at Brikbeck College. She has written extensively on nineteenth-century art, and has curated several exhibitions, including 'Americans in Paris' which opened at the National Gallery before travelling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and last year, a major Renoir exhibition in Rome.