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.

Rosenthal attended Colchester Royal Grammar School, then under the aegis of headteacher, Jack Elam, and home to not one but several inspirational English teachers. 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, for a thesis accepted in 1977 titled Constable and the valley of the Stour.

In 2013 he was the curator, with Steven Parissien, of the exhibition Turner and Constable sketching from nature held first at Compton Verney, and subsequently at both the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate and the Laing in Newcastle.

• British landscape painting. Phaidon Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0714821986
• Constable: The painter and his landscape. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1983. ISBN 0300030142
• Constable. Thames & Hudson, London, 1987. (World of Art) ISBN 9780500202111
• Prospects for the nation: Recent essays in British landscape, 1750-1880. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997. (With Christiana Payne and Scott Wilcox) ISBN 978-0300063837
• The art of Thomas Gainsborough: "A little business for the eye". Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999. ISBN 978-0300081374
• Gainsborough. Tate Publishing, London, 2002. (Editor with Martin Myrone) ISBN 978-1854374448
• Hogarth. Chaucer Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1904449300
• Turner and Constable sketching from nature: Works from the Tate collection. Tate Publishing, London, 2013. ISBN 978-1849762069