David Hersh Solkin, FBA (born Montreal, 16 March 1951) is the ''Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art'' at the

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, which he joined in 1986.Professor David Solkin, Dean and Deputy Director.
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/ref> In 2007, Solkin became the institute's first dean and deputy director. Solkin is an expert in the art of

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. He was educated at

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(AB),

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(MA) and

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(PhD, 1978). In 2002, Solkin was awarded the William M. B. Berger Prize for the exhibition and catalogue ''Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836'' (The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001–2).News archive 2004.
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Selected publications

*''Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction'', London:

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, 1982. *''Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England'', New Haven & London:

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, 1993. *''Painting out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain'', Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008. *''Turner and the Masters'', Tate, London, 2009. Ed. and co-author. *"Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine: Mortimer's Banditti and the Anxieties of Empire", in ''Art and the British Empire'', Timothy Barringer, Geoffrey Quilley and Douglas Fordham eds.,

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, Manchester 2006, 120–38. *"Joseph Wright of Derby and the Sublime Art of Labor" in ''Representations'' 83 (Summer 2003), pp. 167–94 .

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Video: David Solkin discusses "J.M.W. Turner and the Love of Art".
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