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'''Giles Waterfield''' is a British, [[McKitterick Prize|McKitterick Prize winning]] novelist, art historian and curator.<ref> |
'''Giles Waterfield''' is a British, [[McKitterick Prize|McKitterick Prize winning]] novelist, art historian and curator.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/mckitterick-past-winners |title=The McKitterick Prize past winners |publisher=The Society of Authors |accessdate=20 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1373677.stm |title=Zadie Smith wins sixth literary award |publisher=BBC News |date=6 June 2001 |accessdate=20 June 2015}}</ref> |
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==Personal life and education== |
==Personal life and education== |
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Giles Waterfield is a British, McKitterick Prize winning novelist, art historian and curator.[1][2]
Personal life and education
Giles Waterfield spent his childhood in Paris and Geneva,[3] and was educated at the Eton College (1962-67). In 1971 he received BA in English Language and Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford and in 1975 MA in History of Art from Courtauld Institute of Art.[4]
Career
In 1971 Giles Waterfield began his one year work as an assistant teacher at the Merz-Schule, Stuttgart. From 1976 until 1979 he worked as Education Services Officer at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. In 1979 he became the Director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, which position he held until 1996.
Works
- The Long Afternoon (2000)
- The Hound In the Left Hand Corner (2002)
- Markham Thorpe (2006)
- The Iron Necklace (2015)
Exhibitions
- Collection for a King travelling exhibition to Washington, Los Angeles and New York (1985)
- Soane and After at Dulwich Picture Gallery (1987)
- Mr. Cartwright's Pictures (1987)
- A Nest of Nightingales (1988)
- Leaving Portraits from Eton College (1991)
- Palaces of Art Dulwich Picture Gallery and National Gallery of Scotland (1991)
- Treasures of a Polish King exchange exhibition with Royal Castle, Warsaw (1992)
- Art for the People (1994)
- Edward Alleyn: Elizabethan Actor, Jacobean Gentleman (1994)
- Soane and Death (1996)
- Art Treasures of England Royal Academy of Art, London (1998)
- In Celebration: the Art of the Country House Tate Gallery, London (1998-9)
- Below Stairs National Portrait Galleries, London and Edinburgh (2003-4)
- The Artist’s Studio Compton Verney, Warwickshire; Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia (2009-10)
- The Painting Room at Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury (October 2015)
Art Publications
- Soane and After: The Architecture of Dulwich Picture Gallery (1987)
- Rich Summer of Art: A Regency Collection seen through Victorian Eyes (1988)
- Palaces of Art: Art Galleries in Britain 1790-1990 (1991)
- The Gallery Catalogue in Nineteenth Century Britain in New Research in Museum Studies, 1994 volume (1994)
- Art for the People, editor and contributor (1994)
- Art Treasures of England, joint editor and contributor (1998)
- A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, contributor (1998)
- Below Stairs: The Servant’s Portrait, joint editor and contributor (2004)
- Opening Doors: Learning and the Historic Environment, a report for the Attingham Trust, editor and principal contributor (2004)
- Realms of Memory: changing perceptions of the country house in (ed.) Michael Forsyth, Understanding historic building conservation (2007)
- The Artist’s Studio exhibition catalogue, editor (2009)
- The People's Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Victorian Britain, to be published by Yale University Press (2015)
References
- ^ "The McKitterick Prize past winners". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ "Zadie Smith wins sixth literary award". BBC News. 6 June 2001. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ "The Long Afternoon page, Amazon.com". Amazon. Retrieved 20 June 2015..
- ^ Giles Waterfield's CV, in possession of the author of the entry User:Helcim.