Dr Robin Simon
Memberships (professional bodies)
Visiting Professor, University College, London.
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Career summary
Editor of The British Art Journal; formerly Editor of Apollo Magazine;
formerly Director of Institute of European Studies, London;
formerly tenured lecturer in the History of Art and in English, University of Nottingham.
Areas of interest / research
British portraiture 1500-present.
Special interest in Hogarth and his contemporaries.
Details of books/publications relating to your work on British portraiture
(with Alastair Smart) The Art of Cricket, London, 1983.
The Portrait in Britain and America, with biographical dictionary of portrait-painters 1680-1914, Oxford and Boston MA, 1987.
Hogarth, France and British Art: The rise of the arts in eighteenth-century Britain, London, 2007.
Many articles in scholarly journals.