Michael Rosenthal
Michael J. Rosenthal (born 1950) is emeritus professor of the history of art at the University of Warwick. He is a specialist both in British art and culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the arts of early colonial Australia. Early life and education. Michael Rosenthal attended Colchester Royal Grammar School, then under the aegis of headteacher, Jack Elam. He received his BA from the University of London, his MA from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 1978. Academic career and interests. Michael Rosenthal was  Leverhulme Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge before taking up a post in the Department of History of Art at the University of Warwick. His scholarship examines British art, particularly landscape, within social and cultural contexts, and focusing on the 18th and early 19th centuries. His 1977 PhD thesis at the Courtauld Institute of Art was entitled "Constable and the valley of the Stour". He has authored a number of books including "British landscape painting" (1982); "Constable, the painter and his landscape" (1983); "The art of Thomas Gainsborough: "a little business for the eye"" (1999); and "Thomas Gainsborough: 1727-1788