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

  • Art and the Country House: a research project by the Paul Mellon Centre

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Trewithen

    Trewithen Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Trewithen

    Trewithen Catalogue of Paintings: Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Trewithen

    Patrons and Painters: Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and James Northcote at Trewithen

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Doddington Hall

    Doddington Hall Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Doddington Hall

    Catalogue of Paintings: Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Doddington Hall

    Arthur Pond, Doddington and the Patronage of the Delavals

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Doddington Hall

    Doddington and the Delavals: collecting and display in the 1760s

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Castle Howard

    Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle as a collector of contemporary British Art

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Petworth House

    Petworth Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Mount Stuart

    Mount Stuart Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Mount Stuart

    Honours and Insignia: Georgian Portraiture at Mount Stuart

    by Martin Postle and Lisa Ford

  • Castle Howard Raynham Hall

    Raynham Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Raynham Hall

    A Catalogue of Paintings at Raynham Hall, Norfolk

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Raynham Hall

    The Curious Case of the Townshend Heirlooms Sale

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Mells Manor

    Mells Manor: Introduction to the Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Mells Manor

    Object in Focus: William Pars, Sir John Coxe Hippisley

    by Martin Postle