Elizabeth Prettejohn

Elizabeth Francesca Prettejohn (born 15 May 1961)^[1] is an art historian and author of several books about art history. Her books have included "Rossetti and his Circle" (1997), "The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites" (2000) and "Art for Art's Sake" (2007). She has also co-edited and coauthored books. She has written exhibition catalogues and papers for journals such as "Burlington Magazine", "Journal of Victorian Culture" and "Art Bulletin".

Education and Career

Prettejohn was the Professor of the history of art at the University of Bristol from 2005, before becoming head of the history of art at the University of York in 2012. She has also been the Professor of Modern Art at the University of Plymouth and the curator of Paintings and Sculpture at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. She studied at Harvard University, where she got her Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude), and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she got her Master of Arts degree in 1987 and PhD degree in 1991.^[2] She is married to the Professor of Classics and Dean of Arts, Charles Martindale

Publications

Books

Name	Year	Publisher	Notes
Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting	2007	Yale University Press	Won the 2008 Historians of British Art Prize for single-authored book on a subject from the period after 1800
Beauty and Art 1750-2000	2005	Oxford University Press	Part of the Oxford History of Art series
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites	2000	Tate Publishing and Princeton University Press
Interpreting Sargent	1998	Tate Publishing
Rossetti and his Circle	1997	Tate Publishing
After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England	1999	Manchester University Press and Rutgers University Press	Editor
Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity	1999	Yale University Press	Edited with Tim Barringer

Curated exhibitions

Name	Time	Locations	Notes
J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite (in Europe) J.W. Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantment (in Canada)[3]	2008–2010	Groninger Museum Groningen, Royal Academy of Arts London and Museum of Fine Arts Montreal	With Peter Trippi, Robert Upstone and MaryAnne Stevens.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	2003-04	Walker Art Gallery and Van Gogh Museum	With Julian Treuherz and Edwin Becker
Adrian Stokes	2002 June	Arnolfini	With Edwin Becker and others
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema	1996-97	Walker Art Gallery and Van Gogh Museum	With Edwin Becker and others
Imagining Rome: British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century	1996-97	Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery	With Michael Liversidge
Characters and Conversations: British Art 1900-1930	1996-97	Tate Gallery Liverpool	With Fiona Bradley
Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector	1994	Courtauld Institute Galleries	Researcher

References

1. "CV 2011". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
2. "The Courtauld Institute of Arts newsletter archive issue 21 : spring 2006". Retrieved 10 August 2010.
3. "J.W. Waterhouse Exhibitions". Retrieved 4 September 2009.

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the Modern City of Ancient Rome
• Art for Art's Sake

External links

• Elizabeth Prettejohn, University of York