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One of the world’s leading authorities on the history of British art, David Solkin taught for eight years at the University of British Columbia before joining The Courtauld in 1986, where he was promoted from Lecturer to Reader in 1993, and to Professor in 2002; eight years later he succeeded the late John House as Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art. In the autumn of 2007 David became The Courtauld’s first Dean and Deputy Director, a position that he anticipates occupying until the end of the academic year 2015-16. He plans to retire shortly thereafter.
In addition to numerous articles, David has published four important books: Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction (London, Tate Gallery 1982); Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven & London, Yale University Press 1993); Painting out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (New Haven & London, Yale University Press 2008); and Art in Britain 1660-1815 (New Haven & London, Yale/Pelican History of Art series, 2015) . David was the guest curator of the exhibition Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, which took place at The Courtauld Gallery in 2001-2002. He also edited and co-authored the collection of essays that accompanied the exhibition, for which he was awarded the inaugural William M.B. Berger Prize for British art history. More recently David curated Turner and the Masters, the hugely successful exhibition which opened at Tate Britain in the autumn of 2009, before going on to the Grand Palais in Paris and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.
Having just completed his monumental Pelican History, David is now turning his attention to an exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough’s portraits of the artist and his relations, entitledGainsborough’s Family Album, which is scheduled to open at the National Portrait Gallery in autumn 2018.
David was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.
2012
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2005-7
2004-5
2002
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1998-1999
1983-1984
1978
1974-1978
1974-1978
Yale University
1974 → 1978
The Courtauld Institute of Art
1973 → 1978
Harvard University
1968 → 1972
University of British Columbia
1985 → 1986
University of British Columbia
1978 → 1985
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter