Giles Waterfield

{{Use British English|date=June 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Giles Adrian Waterfield | image = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date|1949|7|24|df=yes}}<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U38967 WATERFIELD, Giles Adrian], ''Who's Who 2016'', A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015)</ref> | birth_place = | death_date ={{death date and age|2016|11|5|1949|7|24|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/20/giles-waterfield-obituary|title=Giles Waterfield obituary|first=Anna Somers|last=Cocks|date=20 November 2016|publisher=|accessdate=21 November 2016|via=The Guardian}}</ref> | death_place = | occupation = {{flatlist| * Novelist * art historian * curator}} | genre = Fiction | alma_mater = [[Magdalen College]], [[Courtauld Institute of Art]] | website = | spouse = | children = | signature = }}

'''Giles Waterfield''' (24 July 1949 – 5 November 2016) was a British, [[McKitterick Prize]]—winning novelist, art historian and curator.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/mckitterick-past-winners |title=The McKitterick Prize past winners |publisher=The Society of Authors |accessdate=20 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626123954/http://www.societyofauthors.org/mckitterick-past-winners |archive-date=26 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1373677.stm |title=Zadie Smith wins sixth literary award |publisher=BBC News |date=6 June 2001 |access-date=20 June 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life and education== Giles Waterfield spent his childhood in Paris and Geneva,<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Long Afternoon page, Amazon.com |isbn=0747268487 }}</ref> and was educated at [[Magdalen College]], Oxford and the [[Courtauld Institute of Art]].

==Career==

In 1971 Giles Waterfield began his one-year work as an assistant teacher at the [[w:de:Merz-Schule|Merz-Schule]], Stuttgart. From 1976 until 1979 he worked as Education Services Officer at the [[Royal Pavilion]], Brighton. In 1979 he became the (first) Director of the [[Dulwich Picture Gallery]], where he remained until 1996. After that he was an independent curator, writer and university lecturer.

His consultancies included [[Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies|Britten-Pears Foundation]], [[South Bank Centre]], [[Royal Academy of Arts]], [[Sotheby’s]] London, [[Department for Culture, Media and Sport]], [[National Trust]] for England and Wales, [[Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment]], [[Ince Blundell]] (for [[English Heritage]]). In 1996–2000 he was an expert adviser to Museums, Libraries and Archives Expert Panel of the [[Heritage Lottery Fund]] where he assessed and monitored around 100 applications for capital projects. As a special adviser on arts and heritage to [[Esmée Fairbairn Foundation]] (2002–2007) he initiated a [[Regional Museums Initiative]] to fund exhibitions in regional museums. He was also a trustee of [[National Heritage Memorial Fund]]/[[Heritage Lottery Fund]] (2000–2006) and member of various committees: South East Regional Committee, [[National Trust]] (1982–1988); National Heritage Executive Committee and Judge, Museum of the Year Awards (1998–2003); Executive Committee, [[The London Library]] (1998–2001); Vice-President, [[National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies]] (1998–2006); trustee, [[Holburne Museum]], [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] (1999–2003); trustee, [[Edward James Foundation]], [[West Dean, West Sussex]] (1999–2003); Advisory Committee, [[Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art]] (2002–2007); Arts Panel, [[National Trust]] for England and Wales (2004–2015); Expert Advisory Panel, National Heritage Memorial Fund (2006–2013); trustee 2005–2013, [[Charleston Trust]] Chair (2007–2010). From 1994 Giles Waterfield was deeply involved in the activity of The Attingham Trust, first as a Joint Director of the [[Attingham Summer School]] (1994 - 2003) and from 1995 as Director of [[Royal Collection Studies]]. He was Chair, [[Old Houses New Visions]] (2010–2016); Trustee, [[Garden Museum]], London (2010–2016); Trustee, [[Emery Walker Foundation]] (2013– ) and Member, Acceptance in Lieu Panel, [[Arts Council England]].

He was an Associate Lecturer at The [[Courtauld Institute of Art]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/people/associate-scholars.shtml |title=Research Forum Associate Scholars |publisher=The Courtauld Institute of Art |accessdate=20 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513143902/http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/people/associate-scholars.shtml |archivedate=13 May 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref> and also taught at the [[University of Notre Dame]] (London center) and [[Arcadia University]] (in London).

Waterfield curated numerous exhibitions, notably ''Soane and After'' ([[Dulwich Picture Gallery]], 1987) ''Palaces of Art'' ([[Dulwich Picture Gallery]] and [[National Gallery of Scotland]], 1991), ''Art Treasures of England'' [[Royal Academy of Arts]], London (1998), ''In Celebration: the Art of the Country House'' ([[Tate]], London, 1998-9), ''Below Stairs'' ([[National Portrait Gallery, London]] and [[National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh]], 2003-4), ''The Artist’s Studio'' (Compton Verney and Sainsbury Centre, UEA, 2009–10).

==Works==

* ''The Long Afternoon'' (2000) * ''The Hound In the Left Hand Corner'' (2002) * ''Markham Thorpe'' (2006) * ''The Iron Necklace'' (2015)

==Art publications==

* ''Soane and After: The Architecture of Dulwich Picture Gallery'' (1987) * ''Rich Summer of Art: A Regency Collection seen through Victorian Eyes'' (1988) * ''Palaces of Art: Art Galleries in Britain 1790–1990'' (1991) * ''The Gallery Catalogue in Nineteenth Century Britain'' in ''New Research in Museum Studies'', 1994 volume (1994) * ''Art for the People'', editor and contributor (1994) * ''Art Treasures of England'', joint editor and contributor (1998) * ''A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum'', contributor (1998) * ''Below Stairs: The Servant’s Portrait'', joint editor and contributor (2004) * ''Opening Doors: Learning and the Historic Environment, a report for the Attingham Trust'', editor and principal contributor (2004) * ''Realms of Memory: changing perceptions of the country house'' in (ed.) [[Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean|Michael Forsyth]], ''Understanding historic building conservation'' (2007) * ''The Artist’s Studio'' exhibition catalogue, editor (2009) * ''The People's Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Victorian Britain'', to be published by Yale University Press (2015)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Cite web|title = Giles Waterfield & Lucy Worsley: 'I gave a talk about a woman who went mad in the Tower; he told me it was a lot of feminist nonsense'| website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/giles-waterfield--lucy-worsley-i-gave-a-talk-about-a-woman-who-went-mad-in-the-tower-he-told-me-it-was-a-lot-of-feminist-nonsense-10316533.html|accessdate = 2015-06-30}} *gileswaterfield.com *[https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/archives-and-library/archive-collections/giles-waterfield Giles Waterfield Archive]

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