# Giles Waterfield > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Giles_Waterfield > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Giles_Waterfield.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Waterfield > Source revision: 1354815641 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Giles Adrian Waterfield Born (1949-07-24)24 July 1949[1] Died 5 November 2016(2016-11-05) (aged 67)[2] Occupation Novelist art historian curator Alma mater Magdalen College, Courtauld Institute of Art Genre Fiction **Giles Waterfield** (24 July 1949 – 5 November 2016) was a British, [McKitterick Prize](/source/McKitterick_Prize)—winning novelist, art historian and curator.[3][4] ## Personal life and education Giles Waterfield spent his childhood in Paris and Geneva,[5] and was educated at [Magdalen College](/source/Magdalen_College), Oxford and the [Courtauld Institute of Art](/source/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art). ## Career In 1971 Giles Waterfield began his one-year work as an assistant teacher at the [Merz-Schule](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merz-Schule), Stuttgart. From 1976 until 1979 he worked as Education Services Officer at the [Royal Pavilion](/source/Royal_Pavilion), Brighton. In 1979 he became the (first) Director of the [Dulwich Picture Gallery](/source/Dulwich_Picture_Gallery), where he remained until 1996. After that he was an independent curator, writer and university lecturer. His consultancies included [Britten-Pears Foundation](/source/Britten-Pears_School_for_Advanced_Musical_Studies), [South Bank Centre](/source/South_Bank_Centre), [Royal Academy of Arts](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Arts), [Sotheby’s](/source/Sotheby%E2%80%99s) London, [Department for Culture, Media and Sport](/source/Department_for_Culture%2C_Media_and_Sport), [National Trust](/source/National_Trust) for England and Wales, [Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment](/source/Commission_for_Architecture_and_the_Built_Environment), [Ince Blundell](/source/Ince_Blundell) (for [English Heritage](/source/English_Heritage)). In 1996–2000 he was an expert adviser to Museums, Libraries and Archives Expert Panel of the [Heritage Lottery Fund](/source/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](/source/Esm%C3%A9e_Fairbairn_Foundation) (2002–2007) he initiated a [Regional Museums Initiative](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regional_Museums_Initiative&action=edit&redlink=1) to fund exhibitions in regional museums. He was also a trustee of [National Heritage Memorial Fund](/source/National_Heritage_Memorial_Fund)/[Heritage Lottery Fund](/source/Heritage_Lottery_Fund) (2000–2006) and member of various committees: South East Regional Committee, [National Trust](/source/National_Trust) (1982–1988); National Heritage Executive Committee and Judge, Museum of the Year Awards (1998–2003); Executive Committee, [The London Library](/source/The_London_Library) (1998–2001); Vice-President, [National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies](/source/National_Association_of_Decorative_and_Fine_Art_Societies) (1998–2006); trustee, [Holburne Museum](/source/Holburne_Museum), [Bath](/source/Bath%2C_Somerset) (1999–2003); trustee, [Edward James Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_James_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1), [West Dean, West Sussex](/source/West_Dean%2C_West_Sussex) (1999–2003); Advisory Committee, [Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art](/source/Paul_Mellon_Centre_for_Studies_in_British_Art) (2002–2007); Arts Panel, [National Trust](/source/National_Trust) for England and Wales (2004–2015); Expert Advisory Panel, National Heritage Memorial Fund (2006–2013); trustee 2005–2013, [Charleston Trust](/source/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attingham_Summer_School&action=edit&redlink=1) (1994 - 2003) and from 1995 as Director of [Royal Collection Studies](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Collection_Studies&action=edit&redlink=1). He was Chair, [Old Houses New Visions](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_Houses_New_Visions&action=edit&redlink=1) (2010–2016); Trustee, [Garden Museum](/source/Garden_Museum), London (2010–2016); Trustee, [Emery Walker Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emery_Walker_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1) (2013– ) and Member, Acceptance in Lieu Panel, [Arts Council England](/source/Arts_Council_England). He was an Associate Lecturer at The [Courtauld Institute of Art](/source/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art)[6] and also taught at the [University of Notre Dame](/source/University_of_Notre_Dame) (London center) and [Arcadia University](/source/Arcadia_University) (in London). Waterfield curated numerous exhibitions, notably *Soane and After* ([Dulwich Picture Gallery](/source/Dulwich_Picture_Gallery), 1987) *Palaces of Art* ([Dulwich Picture Gallery](/source/Dulwich_Picture_Gallery) and [National Gallery of Scotland](/source/National_Gallery_of_Scotland), 1991), *Art Treasures of England* [Royal Academy of Arts](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Arts), London (1998), *In Celebration: the Art of the Country House* ([Tate](/source/Tate), London, 1998-9), *Below Stairs* ([National Portrait Gallery, London](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery%2C_London) and [National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery%2C_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](/source/Michael_Forsyth%2C_Baron_Forsyth_of_Drumlean), *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 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [WATERFIELD, Giles Adrian](http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U38967), *Who's Who 2016*, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Cocks, Anna Somers (20 November 2016). ["Giles Waterfield obituary"](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/20/giles-waterfield-obituary). Retrieved 21 November 2016 – via The Guardian. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["The McKitterick Prize past winners"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150626123954/http://www.societyofauthors.org/mckitterick-past-winners). The Society of Authors. Archived from [the original](http://www.societyofauthors.org/mckitterick-past-winners) on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Zadie Smith wins sixth literary award"](https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1373677.stm). BBC News. 6 June 2001. Retrieved 20 June 2015. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** *The Long Afternoon page, Amazon.com*. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0747268487](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0747268487). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Research Forum Associate Scholars"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150513143902/http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/people/associate-scholars.shtml). The Courtauld Institute of Art. Archived from [the original](https://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/people/associate-scholars.shtml) on 13 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015. ## External links - ["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'"](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). *[Independent.co.uk](/source/Independent.co.uk)*. Retrieved 30 June 2015. - gileswaterfield.com - [Giles Waterfield Archive](https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/archives-and-library/archive-collections/giles-waterfield) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Netherlands Poland Israel Belgium Other IdRef Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Giles Waterfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Waterfield) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Waterfield?action=history)). 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