David H Solkin

David H. Solkin is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art and Dean and Deputy Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art. His publications include Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Gallery, 1982), Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 1993) and Painting out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (Yale University Press, 2008); he is also the...See more

David H. Solkin is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art and Dean and Deputy Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art. His publications include Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Gallery, 1982), Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 1993) and Painting out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (Yale University Press, 2008); he is also the editor and co-author of Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (Yale University Press, 2001) and Turner and the Masters (Tate, 2009). See less