Antony Griffiths
Antony Vaughan Griffiths,
Early life and education
Griffiths was born on 28 July 1951. He was educated at Highgate School, then an all-boys private school in Highgate, London. He studied Classics ("Greats") at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) degree.[1]
Career
Griffiths joined the British Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings as an Assistant Keeper in 1976.[1][2] He was promoted to Deputy Keeper of the department in 1981, and appointed its Keeper in 1991.[2] After 20 years leading the department, he retired from the British Museum in 2011.[1]
Griffiths was selected to give the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library for 2003: the lecture series was titled "Prints for Books, French Book Illustration 1760–1800".[3] He was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for the 2014/2015 academic year.[4][5] As such, he was required to give a lecture series consisting of eight lectures: the series was titled "The Print before Photography: The European print in the age of the copper plate and wooden block" (published in book form, 2016).[6]
Griffiths has been Chairman of Print Quarterly Publications since 2001.
Honours
In 2000, Griffiths was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5]
On 27 September 2017, Griffiths was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550–1820.[11]
Selected works
- Griffiths, Antony (1980). Prints and printmaking (1st ed.). London: British Museum Publications. ISBN 978-0714107707.
- Griffiths, Antony (1996). Prints and printmaking: an introduction to the history and techniques (2nd ed.). London: British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum. ISBN 978-0714126081.
- Griffiths, Antony; Carey, Frances (1994). German printmaking: in the age of Goethe. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 0714116599.
- Griffiths, Antony, ed. (1996). Landmarks in Print Collecting: Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum Since 1753. London: British Museum Press and the Parnassus Foundation. ISBN 978-0714126098.
- Griffiths, Antony; Hartley, Craig (1997). ISBN 071412611X.
- Griffiths, Antony (1998). The print in Stuart Britain, 1603-1689. London: British Museum. ISBN 978-0714126074.
- Griffiths, Antony (2004). Prints for books: book illustration in France, 1760-1800. London: British Library. ISBN 978-0712348744.
- Griffiths, Antony (2016). The Print Before Photography: An introduction to European Printmaking 1550-1820. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0714126951.
References
- ^ Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 5 Oct 2017
- ^ a b "Antony Griffiths (Biographical details)". The British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "The British Library Panizzi Lectures 1985 -2014" (PDF). The British Library. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Antony Griffiths named Oxford Slade Professor for 2015". Art Fund. National Art Collections Fund. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Professor Antony Griffiths". The British Academy. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Pickles, Matt (9 January 2015). "Slade lectures 2015 announced: free talks on printmaking before photography". Oxford Arts Blog. University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Home page". Print Quarterly. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Meet our trustees". Art Fund. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Constitution and Governance". The Walpole Society. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Our trustees". The Henry Moore Foundation. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "From Wikipedia to Roman coins: British Academy recognises excellence in the humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. Retrieved 5 October 2017.