Richard Dorment
Richard Dorment, CBE, (born 1946) was the American born chief art critic for The Daily Telegraph.
Early life
Richard Dorment was born in the United States in 1946. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1968 where he studied art history. He completed his post-graduate education at Columbia University where he wrote his dissertation on Edward Burne-Jones's mosaics for the American Church in Rome.[1]
Career
Dorment was the chief art critic for The Daily Telegraph.[1]
Awards
Dorment won the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism in Great Britain in 1992, in 2000 he was named Critic of the Year in the British Press Awards, and in 2014 his review of the reopening of the Rijksmuseum won the Holland Prize.[1]
Family
Dorment married the novelist Harriet Waugh.[1]
Selected publications
- Alfred Gilbert. Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1985. ISBN 0300033885
- British painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. Philadelphia Museum of Art & Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1986. ISBN 0297790056
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