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The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the senior professorship of art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 at the universities of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
, Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 and London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collector and philanthropist Felix Slade
Felix Slade

Felix Joseph Slade FRA , was an England collector of glass, books and engravings, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a philanthropist who endowed chairs of fine art at Oxford University and University of Cambridge, and at University College London, where he also endowed scholarships which formed the beginning of the Slade School of...
, with studentship
Studentship

A studentship is similar to a scholarship but involves summer work on a research project. The financial amount paid to the recipient is normally tax-free, but the recipient is required to fulfill work requirements....
s also created in the University of London. The studentships allowed for the creation of the Slade School of Art, now part of University College London
University College London

University College London is a university institution and constituent college of the University of London based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom....
. The chair at Oxford is named after the first holder John Ruskin
John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
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The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the senior professorship of art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 at the universities of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
, Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 and London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collector and philanthropist Felix Slade
Felix Slade

Felix Joseph Slade FRA , was an England collector of glass, books and engravings, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a philanthropist who endowed chairs of fine art at Oxford University and University of Cambridge, and at University College London, where he also endowed scholarships which formed the beginning of the Slade School of...
, with studentship
Studentship

A studentship is similar to a scholarship but involves summer work on a research project. The financial amount paid to the recipient is normally tax-free, but the recipient is required to fulfill work requirements....
s also created in the University of London. The studentships allowed for the creation of the Slade School of Art, now part of University College London
University College London

University College London is a university institution and constituent college of the University of London based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom....
. The chair at Oxford is named after the first holder John Ruskin
John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
.

Slade Professors, University College, London

  • Edward Poynter
    Edward Poynter

    File:Sir Edward John Poynter ? Cave of the Storm Nymphs.jpgSir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet, Knight Bachelor PRA was a United Kingdom Artist, designer, draughtsman and art administrator....
     (1871)
  • Alphonse Legros
    Alphonse Legros

    Alphonse Legros , Painting and etcher, was born in Dijon. his father was an accountant, and came from the neighbouring village of V?ronnes.Young Legros frequently visited the farms of his relatives, and the peasants and landscapes of that part of France are the subjects of many of his pictures and etchings....
     (1876)
  • Fred Brown (1882)
  • Henry Tonks
    Henry Tonks

    File:Henry Tonks02.jpgHenry Tonks, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons was an England surgeon, artist and art teacher.He was one of the first English artists to be influenced by the France Impressionists, he exhibited with the New English Art Club and was an associate of many of the more progressive artists of late Victorian England...
     (1917)
  • Randolph Schwabe (1930)
  • William Coldstream
    William Coldstream

    Sir William Menzies Coldstream was a British Realism Painting and a long standing art teacher....
     (1949)
  • Lawrence Gowing
    Lawrence Gowing

    Sir Lawrence Gowing was a United Kingdom artist, writer, curator, and teacher. Initially recognized as a portrait painting and landscape painting, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator, writer, and, eventually, curator and museum trustee....
     (1975)
  • Patrick George (1985)
  • Bernard Cohen
    Bernard Cohen (painter)

    See also Bernard Cohen for other people by this name.Bernard Cohen is a United Kingdom artist. Ten of his works are in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery....
     (1988)
  • John Aiken (2000)


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