Marc Gotlieb is an American art historian who specializes in French Romantic art and Orientalist painting.
in international relations from Oxford University in 1982.
He is currently Director of the Graduate Program and Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of Art at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
He was the president of the National Committee for the History of Art from 2012-2016 He wrote The Plight of Emulation: Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting (1996) and several essays on French Romantic art, on the image of the artist, and on Orientalist painting.
His more recent research centers on Henri Regnault and Orientalism and on Eugène Delacroix.