Herrmann, Luke John

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HERRMANN, Luke John

HERRMANN, Luke John. British, b. 1932. Genres: Art/Art history. Career: Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Leicester, 1988- (Paul Mellon Foundation Lecturer, 1967-70; Sr. Lecturer and Head of Dept., 1970-73; Professor, 1973-88). Assistant Ed., The Illustrated London News, 1955-58; Assistant Keeper and Sr. Assistant Keeper, Dept. of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1958-67. Walpole Society, Honorary Editor, 1993-2000. Publications: J.M.W. Turner, 1963; Ruskin and Turner, 1968; British Landscape Painting of the 18th Century, 1973; Turner: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Prints, 1975, 1986; Paul and Thomas Sandby, 1986; Turner Prints: The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, 1990; Katalog der Albertina, Band VII, Die Englische Schule, 1992; (with T. Cubberley) Catalogue of the Drawings by James Hakewill in the British School at Rome Library, 1992; Nineteenth Century British Painting, 2000; (ed. with E. Joll and M. Bublin) The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, 2001. Address: The Old Vicarage, Penrhos, Raglan, Usk, Monmouthshire NP15 2LE, England.

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