Michael Rosenthal (art historian)

The cover of The art of Thomas Gainsborough: "A little business for the eye", 1999.

Michael J. Rosenthal (born 1950) is emeritus professor of the history of art at the University of Warwick. He is a specialist in British landscape painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Early life and education

Michael J. Rosenthal was born in 1950.^[1] He received his BA from the University of London, his MA from the University of Cambridge^[2] and his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, for a thesis accepted in 1978 titled Constable and the valley of the Stour.^[3]

Career

Rosenthal is emeritus professor of the history of art at the University of Warwick^[2] where he specialises in British landscape painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 2013 he was the curator, with Steven Parissien, of the exhibition Turner and Constable sketching from nature at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate.^[4]

Selected publications

• British landscape painting. Phaidon Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0714821986
• Constable: The painter and his landscape. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1983. ISBN 0300030142
• Constable. Thames & Hudson, London, 1987. (World of Art) ISBN 9780500202111
• Prospects for the nation: Recent essays in British landscape, 1750-1880. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997. (With Christiana Payne and Scott Wilcox) ISBN 978-0300063837
• The art of Thomas Gainsborough: "A little business for the eye". Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999. ISBN 978-0300081374
• Gainsborough. Tate Publishing, London, 2002. (Editor with Martin Myrone) ISBN 978-1854374448
• Hogarth. Chaucer Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1904449300
• Turner and Constable sketching from nature: Works from the Tate collection. Tate Publishing, London, 2013. ISBN 978-1849762069

References

1. Constable's country: a loan exhibition at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk, 5-27th June, 1976 /(catalogue by) Robert McPherson and Michael Rosenthal. copac. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
2. Professor Michael Rosenthal. University of Warwick. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
3. Constable and the valley of the Stour/Michael J. Rosenthal. copac. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
4. Exhibitions > Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature. Works from the Tate collection. Turner Contemporary. Retrieved 14 March 2016.