Richard Ormond

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Richard Louis Ormond , CBE , (born January 16, 1939 in Batheaston ) is a British historian , art historian and former museum director.

Life

Richard Ormond was born to Conrad Ormond and his wife Dorothea Charlotte, nee Gibbons. The mother came from the nobility and was the daughter of Sir Alexander Doran Gibbons, 7th Baronet of Stanwell Place. A paternal grandmother was Violet Sargent Ormond, the sister of the painter John Singer Sargent . After school education attended Ormond first the Brown University in Providence , Rhode Iceland before the Christ Church College of Oxford University studied history. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts .

Ormond began his professional career at the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery , where he curated an exhibition of 100 works by his great-uncle John Singer Sargent in 1964. In a further exhibition in 1965 he was dedicated to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites , who are particularly well represented in the Birmingham Museum. He then moved to the National Portrait Gallery , where he became a curator for 19th century art. In addition, he was deputy director of the museum from 1975 to 1983. In 1983 Ormond started working at the National Maritime Museum in London. There he was in charge of the in-house collection of paintings until 1985 and was then director of the museum from 1986 to 2000. This also included the Royal Greenwich Observatory . During his tenure, for example, the major renovation of the museum's Queen's House fell . He has also curated a number of high-profile exhibitions such as Armada (1988), Henry VIII (1991), Pirates (1994), Titanic (1995) and Story of Time (2000). Ormond was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey for 30 years until he left this position in 2017.

In 1970 Ormond brought out a first biography on Sargent, which was to be followed by numerous other publications, including the painter's multi-volume catalog raisonné, which he wrote together with Elaine Kilmurray. In addition, he published, for example, on the English painter Frederic Leighton . Ormond was also repeatedly active as a guest curator. In 2015, for example, he conceived the exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends , which was on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In 1999 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greenwich in London for his services .

Publications (selection)

  • Exhibition of works by John Singer Sargent . Exhibition catalog, Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham 1964.
  • The Pre-Raphaelites and their circle . Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham 1965.
  • Early Victorian Portraits . National Portrait Gallery, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1973.
  • Leighton's frescoes in the Victoria and Albert Museum . Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1975.
  • The face of monarchy. British royalty portrayed . Phaidon, Oxford 1977, ISBN 0-7148-1762-7 .
  • John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian age . Exhibition catalog Leeds Art Galleries, National Portrait Gallery and Detroit Institute of Arts, Leeds Art Galleries and National Portrait Gallery, London 1979. (Together with James Lomax)
  • National Portrait Gallery in color . National Portrait Gallery and Studio Vista, London 1979, ISBN 0-289-70872-9 .
  • Sir Edwin Landseer . Exhibition catalog Philadelphia Museum of Art and Tate Gallery, London, Rizzoli, New York 1981.
  • Dictionary of British portraiture . Batsford, London 1981, ISBN 0-7134-1468-5 .
  • John Singer Sargent . Exhibition catalog Tate Gallery, London and National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tate Gallery Publishing, London 1998, ISBN 1-85437-245-9 .
  • John Singer Sargent, The early portraits . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1998, ISBN 0-300-07245-7 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • John Singer Sargent, Portraits of the 1890s . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2002, ISBN 0-300-09067-6 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • John Singer Sargent, The later portraits . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003, ISBN 0-300-09806-5 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • John Singer Sargent, Figures and Landscapes, 1874–1882 . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-11716-5 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • John Singer Sargent, Venetian figures and landscapes, 1898–1913 . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-14140-5 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • John Singer Sargent, Figures and Landscapes, 1883–1899 . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-16111-3 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • John Singer Sargent, Figures and Landscapes, 1900–1907 . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-17735-0 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • John Singer Sargent, Figures and Landscapes, 1908–1913 . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-17736-7 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • Sargent: portraits of artists and friends . Exhibition catalog National Portrait Gallery, London and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, National Portrait Gallery, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-85514-545-0 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)
  • John Singer Sargent, Figures and Landscapes, 1914–1925 . Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2016, ISBN 978-0-300-17737-4 . (Together with Elaine Kilmurray)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the 2001 medal conferred on December 30, 2000
  2. ↑ Information on Richard Ormond's birthplace on the University of Greenwich website
  3. ↑ Information on Richard Ormond's degree on the University of Greenwich website
  4. ↑ Information on awarding an honorary doctorate on the University of Greenwich website
personal data
SURNAME Ormond, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ormond, Richard Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Batheaston