The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the senior professorship of art at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and London. The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collector and philanthropist Felix Slade, with studentships also created in the University of London. The studentships allowed for the creation of the Slade School of Art, now part of University College London. The chair at Oxford is named after the first holder John Ruskin. The Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Felix Slade (1790 - 1868), was an English art collector and philanthropist who endowed chairs of fine art (professorships) at Oxford University and Cambridge University, and at University College London, where he also endowed scholarships which formed the beginning of the Slade School of Art. ... A studentship is similar to a scholarship but involves summer work on a research project. ... The Slade School of Fine Art is an art school based at University College London in the UK. The school traces its roots back to 1868 when Felix Slade decided to establish three Chairs in Fine Art, to be based at Oxford, Cambridge and London—though with only London offering... University College London, commonly known as UCL, is a college of the University of London. ... Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ...

Slade Professors, University of London

• Edward Poynter (1871)
• Alphonse Legros (1876)
• Fred Brown (1882)
• Henry Tonks (1917)
• Randolph Schwabe (1930)
• William Coldstream (1949)
• Lawrence Gowing (1975)
• Patrick George (1985)
• Bernard Cohen (1988)
• John Aiken (2000)

Edward Poynter: Cave of the Storm Nymphs Sir Edward John Poynter (March 20, 1836 - July 26, 1919) was a British painter. ... Alphonse Legros (May 8, 1837 - December 8, 1911), painter and etcher, was born at Dijon. ... Sir William Coldstream (1908-1987) was an English painter. ... See also Bernard Cohen (disambiguation) for other people by this name. ...

Slade Professors, Cambridge University

Sir (Matthew) Digby Wyatt (1820 – 1877) was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. ... Sidney Colvin (1845-1927), English literary and art critic, was born at Norwood, London, on the 18th of June 1845. ... Charles Waldstein, later Sir Charles Walston KBE , was an Anglo-American archaeologist. ... Sir William Martin Conway (April 12, 1856 - April 19, 1937), English art critic and mountaineer, was the son of Reverend William Conway, afterwards canon of Westminster. ... // Edward Prior was instrumental in establishing the Arts and Crafts Movement. ... River with Poplars, circa 1912, Tate Gallery. ... William George Constable (born Derby, England, 27 October 1887, died Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 February 1976, was an art historian and gallery director. ... Sir Nikolaus Pevsner CBE (January 30, 1902 – August 18, 1983) was a German-born British historian of art and, especially, architecture. ... Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) CBE, was an art historian, who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. ... Sir Michael Vincent Levey MVO (born 1927) is a British art historian and former director of the National Gallery, London. ... John Wyndham, Sir Pope-Hennessy (1913 - 1994) was a British art historian. ... Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983) was an English art historian and the Fourth Man of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ... Sir John Newenham Summerson (1904-1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. ... Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) is an English novelist and art historian born in London. ... Rudolf Wittkower (1901 - October 11, 1971) was a German art historian. ... Ernst Kitzinger (born December 12, 1912, Munich; died January 22, 2003, Poughkeepsie) was a historian of late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine art. ... Joseph Rykwert was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926 and emigrated to England in 1939. ... Lothar Ledderose is a professor of the History of Art of Eastern Asia at the University of Heidelberg and dean of its Philosophical-Historical Faculty. ...

Selected Slade Professors, Oxford University

• John Ruskin (1870-1878)
• George Richmond (1878-1883)
• Kenneth Clark (1946-1950)
• Henry Mayr-Harting (1987-88)
• Richard Wentworth (1998 - present)