Richard Dorment

Richard Dorment
Born	1946
Nationality	British
Education	Princeton University, Columbia University
Occupation	Art critic, author

Richard Dorment, (born 1946) is an art historian and exhibition organizer who worked as chief art critic for The Daily Telegraph from 1986 until 2015. In 2014 Richard Dorment received the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) the New Year Honours for Services to the Arts. He became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 2013.

Dorment was born in the United States in 1946. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1968 where he studied art history. His post-graduate work was at Columbia University where he was a faculty fellow from 1968 until 1972. He completed his doctorate at Columbia University in 1975 with a dissertation on Edward Burne-Jones's mosaics for the American Church in Rome.

Dorment worked as assistant curator in the department of European painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He then moved to London where he wrote a Catalogue of British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1986 and a biography of the British sculptor Alfred Gilbert. He became chief art critic for The Daily Telegraph in 1986. After his retirement in 2015, he published a collection of his reviews entitled Exhibitionist: Writing about Art for a Daily Newspaper in 2016.

In 1989, Dorment served on the judging panel for the Turner Prize. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Government Art Collection, a member of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art, and a member of the British Council's Advisory Committee for the Visual Arts. He was a trustee of the Wallace Collection and has been a trustee of the Watts Gallery since 1996. Dorment is a contributor for The New York Review of Books, and has also written for The Burlington Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Review.

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