White, Christopher (John)

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WHITE, Christopher (John)

WHITE, Christopher (John). British, b. 1930. Genres: Art/Art history. Career: British Museum, London, Assistant Keeper, Dept. of Prints and Drawings, 1954-65, Professor of the Art of the Netherlands, 1992-97, Emeritus Professor of the Art of the Netherlands, 1997-; P.D. Colnaghi, London, Director, 1965-71; Natl. Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Curator of Graphic Arts, 1971-73; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Director of Studies, 1973-85, Yale University, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, Adjunct Professor of History of Art, 1976-85, Associate Director, 1976-85; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Director, 1985-97; Worcester College, Fellow, 1985-97, Emeritus Fellow, 1997-. Master Drawings, Reviews Ed., 1967-80. Publications: Rembrandt and His World, 1964; The Flower Drawings of Jan van Huysum, 1965; Rubens and His World, 1968; Rembrandt as an Etcher, 1969, 2nd ed., 1999; (co-author) Rembrandt's Etchings: A Catalogue Raisonnae, 1970; Dürer: The Artist and His Drawings, 1972; English Landscape 1630-1850, 1977; The Dutch Paintings in the Collection of H. M. the Queen, 1982; (ed.) Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England, 1983; Peter Paul Rubens: Man and Artist, 1987; (with others) Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth, 1987; (co-author) Dutch and Flemish Drawings at Windsor Castle, 1994; Anthony van Dyck: Thomas Howard, the Earl of Arundel, 1995; (joint ed.) Rembrandt by Himself, 1999; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Catalogue of the Dutch, Flemish and German Paintings, 1999. Also exhibition catalogues. Address: 34 Kelly St, London NW1 8PH, England.

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