Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz is an independent art historian and curator. With a degree in History of Art and Postgraduate Diploma in Art Gallery and Museums Studies from the University of Manchester, she has worked at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, Canterbury Museums and Galleries, and freelance. She organised the Barbican’s David Roberts exhibition (1986) with Helen Guiterman and Briony Llewellyn, subsequently assisting with their Roberts catalogue raisonné (unpublished). She also curated the Barbican’s James Tissot (1984), which toured to Manchester and Paris. Continuing research on both artists, she contributed their biographies to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004 and 2011), essays about their replica-making practices to an anthology (2020), and major new findings to a James Tissot exhibition in San Francisco and Paris (2019-20).