Tim Barringer

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. His books include Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain, Reading the Pre-Raphaelites and Constable was largely concerned with the writings of John Ruskin. He has published widely on the art of Britain and its empire and on American landscape painting, and has co-edited essay collections including Art and the British Empire, Colonialism and the Object, On the Viewing Platform: The Panorama from Canvas to Screen and Victorian Jamaica. He has co-curated many international loan exhibitions including American Sublime, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica, Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde and Victorian Radicals. Frederic Church: Global Artist will open in 2026 and Human Drama: The Body in British Art in 2027. His writings on art and music have appeared in Art History and in edited collections, and he is finishing a three-volume study Broken Pastoral: Art and Music in Britain.