Dr Martin Postle is Deputy Director for Grants and Publications at the Paul Mellon Centre. Between 1998 and 2007 he was Head of British Art to 1900 at Tate. Martin's research and publication interests focus principally on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art, including portraiture, landscape and the history of art academies. He has curated exhibitions on a wide range of subjects, including the artist’s model, the Fancy Picture and the art of the garden, as well as monographic exhibitions on Joshua Reynolds, Johan Zoffany, Richard Wilson, Stanley Spencer and George Stubbs. Martin is project leader and commissioning editor of ‘Art & the Country House’, to which he has contributed a number of essays and catalogue entries.
Contributions
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Art and the Country House: a research project by the Paul Mellon Centre
by Martin Postle
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Trewithen
Trewithen Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Trewithen
Trewithen Catalogue of Paintings: Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Trewithen
Patrons and Painters: Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and James Northcote at Trewithen
by Martin Postle
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Doddington Hall
Doddington Hall Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Doddington Hall
Catalogue of Paintings: Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Doddington Hall
Arthur Pond, Doddington and the Patronage of the Delavals
by Martin Postle
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Doddington Hall
Doddington and the Delavals: collecting and display in the 1760s
by Martin Postle
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Castle Howard
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle as a collector of contemporary British Art
by Martin Postle
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Petworth House
Petworth Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Mount Stuart
Mount Stuart Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Mount Stuart
Honours and Insignia: Georgian Portraiture at Mount Stuart
by Martin Postle and Lisa Ford
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Raynham Hall
Raynham Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Raynham Hall
A Catalogue of Paintings at Raynham Hall, Norfolk
by Martin Postle
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Raynham Hall
The Curious Case of the Townshend Heirlooms Sale
by Martin Postle
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Mells Manor
Mells Manor: Introduction to the Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings
by Martin Postle
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Mells Manor
Object in Focus: William Pars, Sir John Coxe Hippisley
by Martin Postle