Douglas Brine is Assistant Professor of Art History at Trinity University. He received his BA, MA and PhD degrees from the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London) and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Courtauld Research Forum and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. He taught previously in the UK at Birkbeck College and the Courtauld, and in the US at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He also worked in London in the commercial art world and for museum and historic house institutions, including the National Gallery and the National Trust. Dr Brine's articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Church Monuments, immediations, Apollo and Renaissance Studies, and he was a contributor to the 2006 Campin in Context colloquium and publication. He has also given numerous lectures and conference papers at various institutions in Britain, Europe and the United States.

Dr Brine's research focuses on late medieval art in northern Europe, especially northern France and the Low Countries. His work is concerned with the visual culture of commemoration and centers on southern Netherlandish wall-mounted memorials (or "epitaphs") and their relation to contemporary painting, notably that of Jan van Eyck. His current projects include the revision of his doctoral thesis as a book, tentatively entitled Piety and Purgatory: wall-mounted memorials in the Burgundian Netherlands, and an article-length study of the commemorative functions of some of van Eyck's most celebrated paintings.