Christopher White

Bio

Christopher White was director of the Ashmolean Museum 1985-1997, and is an emeritus fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He began his career in the department of prints and drawings at the British Museum, London, and has since held the posts of curator of graphic arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and director of studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He has written widely on Dutch art, particularly on Rembrandt, and is also the author of books on Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Albrecht Dürer, and the English landscape.