Christopher White (art historian)
Sir Christopher John White
White received a BA from the
From 1973, White was Director of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, an affiliate of Yale in London, and also an associate director of the Yale Center for British Art. In 1985 he left these to become Director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, retiring in 1997.[1]
In 1997, White became a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is also Vice-Chairman of the British Institute of Florence and a Trustee of the Mauritshuis in The Hague.[2] He was knighted in the 2001 New Year Honours for services to art history.[3]
Selected works
His books include:
- Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, 1969 (ISBN 0300079532)
- Christopher White, The Late Etchings of Rembrandt, 1969, British Museum/Lund Humphries, London (exhibition catalogue)
- Rembrandt, World of Art series, Thames & Hudson
- White, Christopher, Buvelot, Quentin (eds), Rembrandt by himself, 1999, National Gallery, London/Mauritshuis, The Hague, ISBN 1857092708
- Anthony Van Dyck: Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (Getty Museum Studies on Art), 2006
- The Later Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2007, with Desmond Shawe-Taylor
- Dutch Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, 2016 (ISBN 9781905686469)
- Anthony Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture, 2021 (ISBN 9780956800794)
References
- ^ Dictionary
- ^ Dictionary
- ^ Macleod, Donald (30 December 2000). "Honours for art, science - and student fees". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
Bibliography
- "Dictionary": Dictionary of Art Historians
- ‘WHITE, Prof. Sir Christopher (John)’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edition, Oxford University Press, 2012.
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