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Catalogues
1. Old Master Paintings at Bridley Manor, Surrey, in the collection of Mr and Mrs J.V. Feather, privately printed, London, 1974.
2. Introduction to the Peter Arnold exhibition, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 1977
3. Jan van Goyen, poet of the Dutch landscape, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, 1977.
4. Realism in Painting in the exhibition catalogue, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1977.
5. Certaines Eaux-fortes de Rembrandt, Galerie Faustus, Geneva, 1978.
6. Dutch and Flemish 16th and 17th Century Paintings from the Shipley Collection, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London; Art Gallery, Wolverhampton; Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne; Gemeentelijk Museum ‘Het Princesschof’, Leeuwarden, 1979-80.
7. Introduction to the catalogue Three Centuries of Flower Painting, Marshall Spink, London, 1980.
8. Introduction to the exhibition catalogue New Life for Old Masters, City Art Gallery, Bradford, 1981
9. Old Master Paintings: Cranach to Corot, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982.
10. Harold Hitchcock, a Retrospective, 1965-1981. The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania, 1982.
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12. Dutch Landscape Painting, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1983.
13. ‘The Collector and the Critic’, introduction to the exhibition catalogue, Dutch and Flemish XVIIth Century Old Master Paintings, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, 1984.
14. ‘John and Josephine Bowes as 17th Century Dutch and Flemish collectors’, introduction to the exhibition catalogue Dutch and Flemish XVIIth Century Old Master Paintings, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, 1984.
15. Catalogue of Old Master Paintings from a private collection in the United States, privately printed, 1984, reprinted New York, Christie’s Sale, 9th May 1985.
16. Catalogue entries on Metsu, Jan van der Heyden, Terbrugghen, Koninck, Lunden and Steen, in Art, Commerce, Scholarship, Colnaghi’s, 1984.
17. ‘The History of the Dutch and Flemish Collection in the National Gallery of Scotland’, introduction to the exhibition catalogue Dutch and Flemish XVII th Century Old Master Paintings, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London 1984.
18. Catalogue entry on Sébastien Bourdon in Old Master Paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Gallery, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 1985-6.
19. Catalogue entry on Lubin Baugin, in French and Spanish Pictures, London, Colnaghi’s, 1986.
20. Cheltenham, Museum and Art Gallery, The De Ferrieres Collection, 1988.
21. West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art, Kyril Vassilev, 1989.
22. Checklist of Paintings by Julius Caesar Ibbetson in UK Public Collections, in James Mitchell, Julius Caesar Ibbetson 1659-1816, London, 1999.
23. Introduction to Highlights from the Beecroft, Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, 2000.
24. Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Medieval to Regency, 2002
25. Compton Verney, Warwickshire, Georges de La Tour, Master of Candlelight, 2007
26. Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, From Victorian to Edwardian, 2009
27. A private Swiss Foundation, Canale, Turin, 2009
28. Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, A Collector’s Eye, Cranach to Pissarro, 2010
29. The Schorr Collection, 2 Vols, London, 2014
30. The Davis Collection, Neil Davis, Herzliya Pituach, Israel, 2017
Reviews
1. ‘L ‘Opera completa di Nicolas Poussin’, by Jacques Thuillier, Antologia di Belli Arte, 1977.
2. ‘Aelbert Cuyp en zijn Familie’, exhibition, Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, The Connoisseur, 1978.
3. ‘The Queen’s Pictures’, by Sir Oliver Millar, The Art Bulletin, 1979.
4. ‘Carel Fabritius’ by Christopher Brown, Art and Artists, 1981.
5. ‘The partnership’ by Colin Simpson, ‘Bernard Berenson, a biography Vol.II’ by Ernest Samuels, The Sunday Times, August 1987.
Articles
1. ‘A suggestion for Etienne de La Tour’, The Burlington Magazine, 1969.
2. ‘Elsheimer: a third piece from the Frankfurt Tabernacle’, The Burlington Magazine, 1970.
3. ‘Georges de La Tour – a note on his early career’, The Burlington Magazine, 1970.
4. ‘A new painting by Georges de La Tour’, The Burlington Magazine, 1971 (with Benedict Nicolson).
5. ‘Georges de La Tour et la Grande Bretagne’, La Revue du Louvre, 1972 (with Benedict Nicolson).
6. ‘Mattia Preti’s Martyrdom of St Bartholomew’, Bulletin of the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1972.
7. ‘Un opera di Hugh Douglas Hamilton’ Arte Illustrata, 1973.
8. Granet’s Interior of the Capuchin Monastery, Rome’, Leeds Art Calendar, 1974.
9. ‘Dipinti neoclassiche nelle collezione Britanniche’, Arte Illustrata, 1974.
10. ‘A Virgin and a Child by Poussin in Brighton’, The Burlington Magazine, 1974.
11. ‘Claude Vignon’s Croesus and Solon’, The Burlington Magazine, 1976.
12. ‘Philippe de Champaigne’s St Veronica’s Veil’, The Connoisseur, 1979.
13. ‘British Taste in Dutch 17th Century Painting’, The Connoisseur, 1979.
14. ‘Dutch 17th Century Paintings from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation’, The Connoisseur, 1979.
15. ‘Fake’ The Connoisseur, 1980 (with Diana de Marly).
16. ‘Cheat’, The Connoisseur, 1980.
17. ‘Rembrandt’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt’, Pantheon, 1981.
18. ‘Paintings by Claude and Poussin’, National Art Collections Fund Review, 1984.
19. ‘The “Choirboy” by Georges de La Tour’, The Burlington Magazine, 1984.
20. On the compiling of indexes in ‘De Arte et Libris’, Festschrift for Erasmus, 1984.
21. A note on the state of Provincial Museums in the United Kingdom, The International Journal of Museums Management and Curatorship, 1984.
22. ‘Curators, Collections and Catalogues’, The International Journal of Museums Management and Curatorship, 1988.
23. ‘The Language of Art’, Professional Translator and Interpreter, 1989.
24. Articles on Berchem, Bosschaert, Aelbert Cuyp, van Goyen, Willem Claesz, Heda, Jan Davidsz, de Heem, Hobbema and Rachel Ruysch in International Dictionary of Art and Artists, 2 Vols, Chicago and London, 1990.
25. ‘The reputation of great masters….’ The Antique Collector, February 1991.
26. ‘Georges de La Tour’s St Sebastian’, Apollo, 1996.
27. ‘The St Jerome Reading – pictures by Georges de La Tour reassessed’, Pantheon, 1996.
28. ‘The Vanitas Piece in Dutch and Flemish 17th Century Painting’, The Low Countries, Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands, A Yearbook, 1997.
29. ‘Georges de La Tour, l’Angleterre et saint Jérôme’ in the exhibition catalogue, Vic sur Seille, Musée départemental Georges de La Tour, Saint Jérôme Georges de La Tour, 2013
Miscellaneous
Observer Map, Art Britain, London, George Philips Group, 1977.
Introduction to Harold Hitchcock by Dr Ian Williamson, New York, 1982.
Art of England, Illustrated Diary, 1992.
Journalism
Articles in the following publications:
Nihon Keizei Shimbun, Tokyo, 1979-80
‘Poussin’s Nurture of Jupiter at Dulwich’; ‘Murillo’s Flower Girl at
Dulwich’; ‘Murillo’s Virgin and Child at Dulwich’.
Art and Artists
1981
‘Bonington’s Abbey of St Bertin at Nottingham’ (October);
‘Hendrick ten Oever’s Landscape with Figures Bathing at
Edinburgh’ (November);
‘Simone Martini’s Christ Discovered in the Temple at Liverpool’
(December).
1982
‘Claude Lorrain’ (January);
‘Atkinson Grimshaw’s Autumn Regrets at Gateshead’ (January)
‘Hugo van der Goes’s Adoration of the Kings in the Victoria Art
Gallery, Bath’ (February);
‘Georges de La Tour’s Dice Players at Stockton-on-Tees’ (March);
‘Hans van Meegeren’ (April);
‘John Constable’s Hampstead Heath in the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge’ (May);
‘Hobbema’s Wooded Landscape with Cottages at Doncaster’
(June);
‘Renoir’s La Parisienne at Cardiff and Tissot’s Bridesmaid at
Leeds’ (November);
1983
‘Berchem, David Cox’ (January);
‘The Wallace Collectin’ (March);
‘Impressionist Works in British Galleries and Museums’ (June);
‘The Dutch Taste of George III’ (December);
1984
‘A National Lack, British taste in Dutch 17th Century Painting’
(May);
‘His Own Man’ (Harold Hitchcock) (August)
R.A. (magazine for the Friends of the Royal Academy), London.
1984 ‘Going Dutch, Vermeer and Terborch’.
The Palm Beach Life
1988 ‘The Small Museums of Paris’;
1989 ‘Kyril Vassilev’ (January)