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The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and
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at the universities of
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and
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History

The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collector and philanthropist Felix Slade, with
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s also created at
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. The studentships allowed for the creation of the
Slade School of Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
, now part of
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, whose Director holds the Slade Professorship. They are normally therefore a practising artist. The chair at Oxford is a visiting professorship, with duties restricted to a series of eight public lectures per year, on the "History, Theory, and Practice of the Fine Arts", to which four seminars have been added from 2011. The professorship is associated with
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. The bequest was also indirectly responsible for the foundation of the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, which was financed by the first Oxford professor,
John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and pol ...
, who announced his intention in his inaugural lecture "to the general dismay of his listeners". The Cambridge Lectures are also a series of eight public lectures by a visiting professor. The Oxford and Cambridge professors are most often
art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, ...
s or critics, but some artists have held the posts, especially at Oxford. The lectures are often subsequently published in book version.


Slade Professors, University College, London

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Edward Poynter Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet (20 March 183626 July 1919) was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy. Life Poynter was the son of architect Ambrose Poynter. He was born in Paris, ...
(1871) *
Alphonse Legros Alphonse Legros (8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later took British citizenship. He was important as a teacher in the British etching re ...
(1876) * Fred Brown (1882) *
Henry Tonks Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher. He was one of the first British art ...
(1918) * Randolph Schwabe (1930) * William Coldstream (1949) * Lawrence Gowing (1975) * Patrick George (1985) * Bernard Cohen (1988) * John Aiken (2000–12) *
Susan Alexis Collins Susan Alexis Collins (born 1964, London) is a British artist and academic. She is currently Slade Professor and Director of the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Biographical notes Collins studied Fine Art at Slade School where sh ...
(2013–18) ''Source:''


Slade Professors, Cambridge University

* Matthew Digby Wyatt (1869) * Sidney Colvin (1873) *
John Henry Middleton John Henry Middleton (5 October 1846 – 10 June 1896) was an archaeologist and a museum director. Early years He was born in York on 5 October 1846, John Henry Middleton was the only surviving child of John Middleton and Maria Margaret, daugh ...
(1886) *
Charles Waldstein Sir Charles Waldstein (March 30, 1856 – March 21, 1927), known as Sir Charles Walston from 1918 to 1927, was an Anglo- American archaeologist. He also competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Life Waldstein was born into a Jewish family ...
(1895) * William Martin Conway (1901) *
Charles Waldstein Sir Charles Waldstein (March 30, 1856 – March 21, 1927), known as Sir Charles Walston from 1918 to 1927, was an Anglo- American archaeologist. He also competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Life Waldstein was born into a Jewish family ...
(1904) *
Edward Schroeder Prior Edward Schroeder Prior (1852–1932) was an architect, instrumental in establishing the arts and crafts movement. He was one of the foremost theorists of the second generation of the movement, writing extensively on architecture, art, craftsma ...
(1912) * Roger Fry (1933) * William George Constable (1935) * Geoffrey Fairbank Webb (1938–41, 1946–49) *
Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, '' The Buildings of England'' ...
(1949) *
Alan Clutton-Brock Alan Francis Clutton-Brock (8 October 1904 – 18 December 1976) was an English art critic and essayist. Clutton-Brock was born in Weybridge, Surrey, the son of Arthur Clutton-Brock. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
(1955) *
Jean Bony Jean Victor Edmond Paul Marie Bony (born in Le Mans, France, 1 November 1908 – died in Brisbane, Australia, 7 July 1995) was a French medieval architectural historian specialising in Gothic architecture. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at th ...
(1958) *
Ernst Gombrich Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (; ; 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Ki ...
(1961) * Michael Vincent Levey (1963) * John Pope-Hennessy (1964) *
Anthony Blunt Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy. Blunt was professor of art history at the University of London, dire ...
(1965) *
John Summerson Sir John Newenham Summerson (25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. Early life John Summerson was born at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. His grandfather w ...
(1966) * Anita Brookner (1967) * Otto Demus (1968) * James Sloss Ackerman (1969) *
Rudolf Wittkower Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the Unite ...
(1970) * George Heard Hamilton (1971) *
Carl Nordenfalk Carl Nordenfalk (December 13, 1907 – June 13, 1992) was a Swedish art historian, academic and director of the Swedish Nationalmuseum from 1958 to 1968. He is best known for his work on Late Antique illuminations, especially those linked to the ...
(1972) *
Tilmann Buddensieg Tilmann Buddensieg (21 June 1928 - 2 September 2013) was a German art historian. Early life Tilmann Buddensieg was born in Berlin on 21 June 1928. He studied art history, classical and early Christian archeology and Byzantine studies. He promoted ...
(1973) *
Ernst Kitzinger Ernst Kitzinger (December 27, 1912 – January 22, 2003) was a German-American historian of late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine art. Biography Kitzinger was born into a well-educated Jewish family in Munich; his father, Wilhelm Natha ...
(1974) *
William Watson William, Willie, Bill or Billy Watson may refer to: Entertainment * William Watson (songwriter) (1794–1840), English concert hall singer and songwriter * William Watson (poet) (1858–1935), English poet * Billy Watson (actor) (1923–2022), A ...
(1975) *
Harold John Golding John Golding (10 September 1929 – 9 April 2012) was a British artist, art scholar, and curator, perhaps best known for his seminal text ''Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907–1914'', first published in 1959 and later revised in several s ...
(1976) *
Howard Burns Howard Burns is a British architectural historian who is professor emeritus of architectural history at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has also lectured at the Courtauld Institute of Art and was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the Univer ...
(1977) *
Rupert Bruce-Mitford Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford, FBA, FSA (14 June 1914 – 10 March 1994) was a British archaeologist and scholar, best known for his multi-volume publication on the Sutton Hoo ship burial. He was a noted academic as the Slade Professor of F ...
(1978) * Joseph Rykwert (1979) * Jennifer Montagu (1980) * Gerhard Schmidt (1981) * Theodore Franklin Reff (1982) * Donovan Michael Sullivan (1983) * Jan Bialostocki (1984) * David Mackenzie Wilson (1985) *
Pierre Rosenberg Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936) is a French art historian, curator, and professor. Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie Française. ...
(1986) *
Martin Kemp Martin John Kemp (born 10 October 1961) is an English musician and actor, best known as the bassist in the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in ''EastEnders''. He is the younger brother of Gary Kemp, who is also ...
(1987) * Lindsay Errington (1988) * Richard Cork (1989) * William Henry Toulmin Vaughan (1990) *
Lothar Ledderose Lothar Ledderose (born 12 July 1942 in Munich) is a German professor of the History of Art of Eastern Asia at the University of Heidelberg. A renowned authority in his field, he received the prestigious Balzan Prize in 2005. Life After graduating ...
(1992) *
Marjorie Elizabeth Cropper Marjorie Elizabeth Cropper (born 11 August 1944) is a British-born art historian with a special interest in Italian and French Renaissance and Baroque art and art literature. Dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in t ...
(1992) * Neil Levine (1994) *
Irene Winter Irene J. Winter (born 1940 in New York City) is an American art historian who is an influential and pioneering scholar of ancient Near Eastern art. Life BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 19 ...
(1996) *
Thomas Alexander Heslop Thomas Alexander "Sandy" Heslop, (born August 1949), publishing as T. A. Heslop, is a British academic who specialises in the art and architecture of medieval England. He is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He was ...
(1997) * Virginia Margaret Spate (1998) *
Albert Blankert Albert Blankert (16 June 1940 - 22 November 2022) was a Dutch art historian and expert in 17th century Dutch painting and the art of Johannes Vermeer. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2000. Selected pu ...
(1999) *
Patricia Fortini Brown Patricia Fortini Brown (born 16 November 1936) is Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Venice and its empire, from the late middle ages through the early modern period, has been the primary site of her scholarly rese ...
(2000) *
Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner (born June 17, 1958) is an American art historian and filmmaker. He is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and, since 2008, Senior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard Univers ...
(2002) *
William J. R. Curtis William J. R. Curtis (born 21 March 1948, in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England) is an architectural historian whose writings have focused on twentieth century architecture. Curtis seems particularly interested in broadening the "canon" to includ ...
(2003) * Jerome Feldman (2004) * Ian Christie (2005) *
Robert Harrist Robert E. Harrist (born 1951) is Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University. His book, ''The Landscape of Words'', was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2010. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the U ...
(2006) *
Griselda Pollock Griselda Frances Sinclair Pollock''The International Who's Who of Women''; 3rd ed.; ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, 2002, p. 453 (born 11 March 1949) is an art historian and cultural analyst of international, postcolonial feminist stud ...
(2007) *
Robert Hillenbrand Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born 2 August 1941) is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the Univers ...
(2008) *
Tim Barringer Tim Barringer is the Paul Mellon professor of the history of art at Yale University. Selected publications *''Opulence and Anxiety: Landscape Paintings from the Royal Academy''. Kineton, Warwickshire: Compton Verney, 2007. *''Men at Work: Art and ...
(2009) *
Barry Bergdoll Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of art history in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and from 2007 to 2019 a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, ...
(2010) * Paul Crossley (2011) * Gülru Necipoğlu (2012–13) * Jessica Rawson (2013–14) * Mary Miller (2014–15) * John Ellis Bowlt (2015–16) * David Freedberg (2016–17) * Stephen Bann (2017–18) *
Jennifer L. Roberts Jennifer L. Roberts is an American art historian. She serves as Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities and Johnson-Kulukunkdis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. ...
(2018–19) * Nicholas Penny (2019–20) ''Source:''


Slade Professors, Oxford University

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John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and pol ...
(1869–1878) * William Blake Richmond (1879–1883) *
John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and pol ...
(1883–1885) *
Hubert Herkomer Sir Hubert von Herkomer (born as Hubert Herkomer; 26 May 1849 – 31 March 1914) was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer. Though a very successful portrait artist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered fo ...
(1885–1895) *
Harry Ellis Wooldridge Harry Ellis Wooldridge (28 March 1845 – 13 February 1917) was an English musical antiquary, artist and Professor of Fine Arts. His music collections included transcripts of 17th- and 18th-century Italian music. He enrolled at the Royal Aca ...
(1895–1904) *
Charles Holmes Sir Charles John Holmes, KCVO (11 November 1868, Preston, Lancashire – 7 December 1936, Kensington, London) was a British painter, art historian and museum director. His writing on art combined theory with practice, and he was an expert on ...
(1904–1910) * Selwyn Image (1910, 1913, 1914) (then suspended 1916–1921) *
Arthur Mayger Hind Arthur Mayger Hind (1880–1957) was a British art historian and curator, who usually published as Arthur M. Hind or A. M. Hind. He specialized in old master prints, and was Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Muse ...
(1921, 1923) *
Reginald Gleadowe Reginald Gleadowe CVO (6 May 1888 – 9 October 1944) was a British teacher and designer who was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. Career Reginald Morier Yorke Gleadowe was educated at Winchester College, New College, Oxford, a ...
(1928–1933) *
Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887 in Cambridge – 21 June 1959 in Westminster, London) was a British architect, writer and musician. Life Harry Stuart Goodhart was born on 29 May 1887 in Cambridge, England. He added the additional name Rende ...
(1933–1936) * Sir Philip Anstiss Hendy (1936–46) *
Kenneth Clark Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. After running two important art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television ...
(1946–48) *
Ellis Waterhouse Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (16 February 1905 – 7 September 1985) was an English art historian and museum director who specialised in Roman baroque and English painting. He was Director of the National Galleries of Scotland (1949–52) a ...
(1955) * John Pope-Hennessy (1956) * Douglas Cooper (1957) *
John Summerson Sir John Newenham Summerson (25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. Early life John Summerson was born at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. His grandfather w ...
(1958) *
Eric Newton Eric Newton is an American journalist, Innovation Chief at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a consultant for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an organization created by one of t ...
(1959) *
George Zarnecki George Jerzy Zarnecki (Polish: Jerzy Żarnecki), CBE, FBA, FSA (12 September 1915 – 8 September 2008) was a Polish Professor of the History of Art. He was a scholar of Medieval art and English Romanesque sculpture, an area of study in which h ...
(1960) * Kenneth Clark (again, 1961) *
Anthony Blunt Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy. Blunt was professor of art history at the University of London, dire ...
(1962) *
T. S. R. Boase Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase (31 August 1898 – 14 April 1974) was a British art historian, university teacher, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Early life and education Thomas Boase was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Charles Millet B ...
(1963) *
Quentin Bell Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (19 August 1910 – 16 December 1996) was an English art historian and author. Early life Bell was born in London, the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), and the nephew of Virginia Woolf (née Ste ...
(1964) * Leslie Martin (1965) * Sir David Piper (1966) * Meyer Schapiro (1967) *
Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, '' The Buildings of England'' ...
(1968) * F. J. B. Watson (1969) *
Otto Kurz Otto Kurz FBA (26 May 1908 in Vienna, Austria – 3 September 1975 in London) was a historian and Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of Oxford. Education * University of Vienna Career Fleeing to London from the Nazis, he was Librarian at ...
(1970) *
Robert Rosenblum Robert Rosenblum (July 24, 1927 – December 6, 2006) was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to 20th centuries. Biography Rosenblum wa ...
(1971) *
Seymour Slive Seymour Slive (September 15, 1920 – June 14, 2014) was an American art historian, who served as director of the Harvard Art Museums from 1975 to 1984. Slive was a scholar of Dutch art, specifically of the artists Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Jac ...
(1972) * Michael Sullivan (1973) *
Michael Baxandall Michael David Kighley Baxandall, FBA (18 August 1933 – 12 August 2008) was a British art historian and a professor emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and ...
(1974) *
Mark Girouard Mark Girouard (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022) was a British architectural historian. He was an authority on the country house, and Elizabethan and Victorian architecture. Life and career Girouard was born on 7 October 1931. He was educ ...
(1975) *
Howard Hibbard Benjamin Howard Hibbard, Jr. (May 23, 1928 – October 29, 1984) was an American art historian and educator. Hibbard was Professor of Italian Baroque Art at Columbia University. Career A native of Madison, Hibbard was born to Margaret and Benja ...
(1976) *
Robert Herbert Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert, (12 June 1831 – 6 May 1905), was the first Premier of Queensland, Australia. At 28 years and 181 days of age, he was the youngest person ever to be elected premier of an Australian state. Early years Born ...
(1977) * John Beckwith (1978) * J. Mordaunt Crook (1979) * Nicholas Penny (1980) * Jonathan Brown (1981) * J. F. Harris (1982) * David Freedberg (1983) *
Irving Lavin Irving Lavin (14 December 1927 – 3 February 2019) was an art historian of Late Antique, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern painting, sculpture, and architecture. His wide-ranging contributions centered primarily on the correlation bet ...
(1984) * Charles Hope (1985) * John House (1986) * Henry Mayr-Harting (1987) *
Alistair Rowan Alistair John Rowan an Irish architectural historian,professor and author of British, Irish and European architectural history.Official Website he Royal Institution of Great Britain http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00 ...
(1988–89) * Elizabeth McGrath (1989–90) * Jennifer Fletcher (1990–91) * Michael Rodgers (1991–92) * Kirk Varnedoe (1992–93) *
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(1993–94) *
Michael Levey Sir Michael Vincent Levey, LVO, FBA, FRSL (8 June 1927 – 28 December 2008) was a British art historian and was the director of the National Gallery from 1973 to 1986. Biography Levey was born in Wimbledon, London, and grew up in Leigh-on-S ...
(1994–95) * John Richardson (1995–96) *
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(1996–97) *
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(1997–98) *
Joseph Connors Joseph James Connors (born February 5, 1945 in New York City) is an American art historian and educator, who specializes in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Career Born in New York City, Connors was graduated from Regis High ...
(1998–99) *
Robert Hewison Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison (born 2 June 1943)‘HEWISON, Prof. Robert Alwyn Petrie’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200accessed 26 March 2008/ref> is a British cultural historian. He was educated ...
(1999–2000) *
Donald Preziosi Donald Anthony Preziosi (born January 12, 1941) is an American art historian. He is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. In August 2007, he became the MacGeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He ...
(2000–01) *
Charles Saumarez Smith Sir Charles Robert Saumarez Smith (born 28 May 1954) is a British cultural historian specialising in the history of art, design and architecture. He was the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2007 until ...
(2001–02) *
Ernst van de Wetering Ernst van de Wetering (9 March 1938 – 11 August 2021) was a Dutch art historian and an expert on Rembrandt and his work. Background Ernst van de Wetering was born in Hengelo. He was first trained as an artist at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts ...
(2002–03) * Craig Clunas (2003–04) * Larry Schaaf (2004–05) * Tom Phillips (2005–06) *
Paul Binski Paul Binski FSA FBA (born 9 November 1956) is a British art historian and Emeritus Professor of the History of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge. Early life and education Binski was born to Eugene and Pamela Binski in 1956. He was ...
(2006–07) * Alex Potts (2007–08) * Richard Thomson (2008–09) *
Dawn Adès Josephine Dawn Adès, (''née'' Tylden-Pattenson; born 6 May 1943), also known as Dawn Adès, is a British art historian and academic. She is professor emeritus of art history and theory at the University of Essex. Early life and education A ...
(2009–10) *
Zainab Bahrani Zainab Bahrani ( ar, زينب البحراني) (born 29 August 1962) is an Iraqi Assyriologist and professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University. Career A native of Baghdad, Iraq, she was educated in Europe and th ...
(2010–11) *
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(2011–12) *
Joseph Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner (born June 17, 1958) is an American art historian and filmmaker. He is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and, since 2008, Senior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard Universi ...
(2012–13) *
Tamar Garb Tamar Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor in the Department of History of Art at University College London. A researcher of French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Garb has published numerous catalogue essays and books t ...
(2013–14) * Antony Griffiths (2014–15) *
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(2015–16) *
Caroline van Eck Caroline Alexandra van Eck (born 22 July 1959) is a Dutch art historian and academic, specialising in the art and architecture of the early modern period. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Art History at the University of Cambridge and a Fe ...
(2016–17) *
David Ekserdjian David Patrick Martin Ekserdjian (born 28 October 1955) is professor of art and film history at the University of Leicester. Selected publications *''Correggio''. 1997. *''Parmigianino''. 2006. *''Treasures from Budapest. European Masterpieces fr ...
(2017–18) *
Finbarr Barry Flood Finbar is an Irish given name that may also be spelled Finbarr, Finbarre, or Finnbar. It is derived from ''Fionnbharr'', an old Irish word meaning "fair-headed one". The anglicised, shortened translation of Finbar is Barry. Finbar may refer to: P ...
(2018–19) * Karen Lang (2019–20) *
Jerrilynn D. Dodds Jerrilynn Denise Dodds is an American art historian whose work has focused on artistic identity in Medieval Spain. She is currently a professor of art history at Sarah Lawrence College and formerly served as the dean of the college from 2009 to 201 ...
(2020–21) *
Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu () is a Nigerian artist, art historian, art curator, and blogger specializing in African and African diaspora art history. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Biography Chika Okeke-Agulu was born in Umuahia in Nigeria in 196 ...
(2022-23) ''Source:'' Oxford Slade Professors – History of Art Department
, Oxford University


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