Chris McAuliffe, curatorial consultant for the exhibition Find out about the developments, subjects and aesthetic qualities that came to shape America in the first half of the 20th century.

David Bomford, director of conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Find out about the early painting techniques used by American artists, where these practices came from and how they developed throughout the course of American history.

PJ Brownlee, associate curator, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago Find out about genre paintings and the exquisitely detailed still-life paintings of flowers, letters, books and smoking pipes, which illustrate the social practices and material culture of daily life in 19th-century America.

David Barquist, curator of American decorative arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art Focusing on Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of the Cadwalader family, find out about early American portraiture and how people chose to represent themselves at the time of colonisation.