Casey’s work touches on more than simplistic realism. There is a haunting, nearly literary quality to each frame— a feeling that subjects are viewed from behind mottled glass, burnished by enigmatic candlelight, or brushed by the soft, hazy edges of a half-remembered dream. 

Peter Trippi is editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur, the magazine that serves collectors of historical and contemporary representational art. He is also president of Projects in 19th-Century Art, a firm he established to pursue research, writing, and curating opportunities. Previously he served as director of the Dahesh Museum of Art (New York) and vice director for development at the Brooklyn Museum. In 2016 Trippi co-curated an international touring exhibition about the Dutch-born, London-based painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who lived from 1836 to 1912. In 2008-10, Trippi co-curated the international touring exhibition J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite. His Waterhouse monograph was published by Phaidon Press in 2002.