Radical Landscape: British oil sketching, 1770-1830

Michael Rosenthal is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He is the keynote speaker for the upcoming Art of Landscape symposium, organised by the Australian National University in conjunction with the Canberra Museum and Gallery, to coincide with their major exhibition Elioth Gruner: the texture of light, on display at CMAG from Saturday 8 March to Sunday 22 June 2014.

Michael Rosenthal studied at the Courtauld Institute, and was Leverhulme Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, before arriving at Warwick. He held various fellowships in Australia and the US, and was lead curator of the Gainsborough exhibition at Tate Britain in 2002. His research concentrated on the arts within British social and cultural histories, mainly of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He had an abiding concern with landscape. His research on colonial art in Australia 1788-1840 will inform a book, A Roo with a View.
 

To register for the Art of Landscape symposium go to: /event/art-landscape