Michael Rosenthal


Michael J. Rosenthal is emeritus professor of the history of art at the University of Warwick. He is a specialist both in British art and culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the arts of early colonial Australia.

Early life and education

Rosenthal attended Colchester Royal Grammar School, then under the aegis of headteacher, Jack Elam, and home to not one but several inspirational English teachers. He received his BA from the University of London, his MA from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, for a thesis accepted in 1977 titled Constable and the valley of the Stour.

Career

In 2013 he was the curator, with Steven Parissien, of the exhibition Turner and Constable sketching from nature held first at Compton Verney, and subsequently at both the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate and the Laing in Newcastle.

Selected publications