Nicholas Penny
Sir Nicholas Penny FBA FSA (born December 21, 1949 ) is an English art historian and museum curator .
Nicholas Penny studied at St Catharine's College , Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London , where he received his PhD in 1975. From 1975 to 1982 he taught art history at Manchester University . He then worked at King's College in Cambridge. From 1980 to 1981 he was " Slade Professor of Fine Art " at Oxford University . He was the curator of the Western Art Department at the Ashmolean Museum .
Since 2000 he has been "Andrew W. Mellon Professor" at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts . In 2002 he was appointed Senior Curator of Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC . From 2008 to 2015 he was director of the National Gallery in London .
He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 . In 2015 he received the accolade as a Knight Bachelor .
Publications (selection)
- with Francis Haskell : Taste and the Antique. The lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900 . Yale University Press, New Haven 1981, ISBN 0-300-02641-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The National Gallery: Directors of the Gallery , accessed November 24, 2015
- ↑ The London Gazette, June 13, 2015 .
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| SURNAME | Penny, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1949 |