Mark Hallett (historian)
| Mark Louis Hallett | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 March 1965 |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Art historian |
Professor Mark Hallett (born 11 March 1965) is an art historian specialising in the history of British art. He is currently Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Professor Hallett moved to the Paul Mellon Centre in October 2012, after having spent eighteen years teaching at the University of York, where he was appointed a Professor in 2006. He was Head of the History of Art department at York between 2007 and 2012, and a member of the University’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. He took his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University, graduating in 1986, and studied for a master's degree (1989) and a PhD (1996) at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Yale University in 1990–91.
Hallett is best known for his writings on 18th-century graphic satire and on Georgian portraiture, and on the artists William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. He has also published essays on the new exhibition culture of Georgian London and about the visual imagery of London and York in the 18th century, and co-edited a catalogue on the work of the early-nineteenth-century painter William Etty. Hallett has also been involved in curating a number of major exhibitions, including James Gillray: The Art of Caricature (Tate Britain, 2001); Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain, 2005); Hogarth (Tate Britain, 2007); William Etty: Art and Controversy (York Art Gallery, 2011); and Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint (Wallace Collection, 2015). Working with colleagues from Tate Britain, he led the major AHRC research project Court, Country, City: British Art 1660–1735.
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