Michael Rosenthal

[3] Michael Rosenthal was Leverhulme Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge before taking up a post in the Department of History of Art at the University of Warwick.

[6] Rosenthal is interested not only in the aesthetics of landscape painting but also its social and ideological meaning and uses, for example in asserting a family's ownership over the land, structures and living things depicted.

[7] His study of Thomas Gainsborough examines not only the paintings but also the artist's canny exploitation of the developing art market of the time.

[1] In July 2012, Walkabout: A symposium in honour of Professor Michael Rosenthal, was held at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London.

In 2002 he was lead curator of Tate Britain's exhibition, Gainsborough, which brought together from around the world the largest ever collection of paintings and drawings by the artist.