2022 Berger Prize for British Art History

Posted in books by Editor on December 15, 2022

From The British Art Journal, with the full long list available here:

Adriano Aymonino’s Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland is the winner of the 2022 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History.

The annual prize was created in 2001 to recognize excellence in the field of British art history by the Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal in honor of the late American collector and patron William M. B. Berger (1925–1999), who amassed a serious collection of British paintings, which was gifted to the Denver Art Museum in 2019.

S H O R T L I S T

• David Alexander, A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714–1820 (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022), 1120 pages, ISBN: 978-1913107215, £75.

• Adriano Aymonino, Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021), 400 pages, ISBN: 978-1913107178, £50.

• Manolo Guerci, London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650 (London: Paul Mellon Centre, 2021), 336 pages, ISBN: 978-1913107239, £50.

• Kenneth McConkey, Towards the Sun: The Artist-Traveller at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2021), 260 pages, ISBN: 978-1913645083, £50.

• Cicely Robinson, ed, Henry Scott Tuke (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 160 pages, ISBN: 978-0300265842, £20 / £30.

1 8 t h – C E N T U R Y O F F E R I N G S O N T H E L O N G L I S T

• David Alexander, A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714–1820 (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022), 1120 pages, ISBN: 978-1913107215, £75.

• Malcolm Andrews, A Sweet View: The Making of an English Idyll (London: Reaktion Books, 2022), 352 pages, ISBN: 978-1789144987, £35.

• Rosemary Baird Andreae, Huguenots, Apothecaries, Gardeners and Squires: The Garniers of Rookesbury, Hampshire (Exeter: Short Run Press, 2021), 52 pages, ISBN: 978-0907473237, £10.

• Tristram Hunt, The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood (Metropolitan Books, 2021), 352 pages, ISBN: 978-1250128348, £25.

• François Marandet, with prefaces by Emmanuelle Delapierre and Robin Simon, Louis Chéron (1655–1725): L’ambition du dessin parfait (Ballan-Miré: Illustria Librairie des Musées, 2022), 288 pages, ISBN: ‎978-2354040956, 30€.

• Simon Martin, Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists (Chichester: Pallant House Gallery, distributed by Yale University Press, 2022), 192 pages, ISBN: 978-1869827755, £25.

• Susan Sloman, Gainsborough in London (London: Modern Art Press, 2021), 412 pages, ISBN: 978-0956800787, £35.

• Cathryn Spence, Nature’s Favourite Child: Thomas Robins and the Art of the Georgian Garden (Bradford-on-Avon: Stephen Morris, 2021), 312 pages, ISBN: 978-1838472634, £40.

• David Stacey, Art and Industry: Seven Artists in Search of an Industrial Revolution in Britain (London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2021), 176 pages, ISBN: 978-1913491291, £25.

• Allen Staley, Copley and West in England, 1775–1815 (London: Burlington Press, 2021), 176 pages, ISBN: 978-1916237803, £35.

• Christina Strunck, Britain and the Continent, 1660–1727: Political Crisis and Conflict Resolution in Mural Paintings at Windsor, Chelsea, Chatsworth, Hampton Court and Greenwich (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), 528 pages, ISBN: 978-3110729610, £29.

• Adrian Tinniswood, Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House (New York: Vintage Publishing, 2021), 416 pages, ISBN: 978-1787331785, £30.

• Joseph Viscomi, William Blake’s Printed Paintings: Methods, Origins, Meanings (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021), 256 pages, ISBN: 978-1913107208, £40.