George David Smith Henderson (born 1931 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British art historian, author, and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge.
He is a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries of London (elected January 1975)[1] and a member of the Association of Art Historians.
[2] He was awarded the Reginald Taylor Prize by the British Archaeological Association in 1962 for his paper "The Sources of the Genesis Cycle at St.-Savin-sur-Gartempe".
Henderson was appointed to Cambridge University as a Lecturer in the History of Art and Fellow of Downing College in 1974, having previously worked at Downing College for a brief period in the early 1960s.
A book to honour his work was published in 2001, New Offerings, Ancient Treasures: Studies in Medieval Art for George Henderson, edited by Paul Binski and William Noel[8] and he is also recognised in The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture[9] as being an influence on the art historian and medievalist Michael Camille.