Ph.D. 1964, Princeton University
Research interests
Spanish and New Spanish Painting, 1500-1800
History of Collecting
Art at European Courts, 17th c.
Sample courses
Painting in Spain 1580-1700; El Greco; The Late Goya; Historiography of Painting
in New Spain; Devotional Imagery in Spain and Spanish America.
Selected Publications
Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Brown, Jonathan and John Elliot. A Palace for a King: The
Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980;
2nd revised edition, 2003.
Velazquez. Painter and Courtier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Kings and Connoisseurs. Collecting Art in 17th Century
Europe. The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in
Fine Arts. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1995
Project Director, Los siglos de oro en los virreinatos de
America 1550-1700, Madrid, Museo de America, 1999.
Selected Honors
American Academy of Arts and Science
American Philosophical Society
Gran Cruz, Order of Alfonso X el Sabio (Spain)
Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes (Spain)
Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Oxford University
Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.