Clovis Whitfield

Clovis Whitfield

Clovis Whitfield is an art historian and art dealer based in London, where he runs Whitfield Fine Art. He is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers.

As well as being the author of a number of books on art history, in recent years he has identified several "lost" works by Baroque and Renaissance painters.

Career as Art Historian

Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and then the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He was later a visiting Professor at Indiana University, 1967/1968.

In the course of his career, Whitfield has organized art exhibitions and lectured at important museums around the world, including the Royal Academy, London and the Capitoline Museums Rome.

Whitfield has published on Baroque Art extensively since 1971, notably discovering Temps Calme by Nicolas Poussin in The Burlington Magazine in 1977 and organising and writing the catalogue of Painting in Naples 1606 – 1705, Caravaggio to Giordano held at the Royal Academy in 1982.

He is currently writing on Caravaggio and working on a catalogue raisonné of Antonio Marziale Carracci

Exhibitions Organised

England and the Seicento, Agnew's, 1973, (Bolognese painting in England).

Painting in Florence, Royal Academy, London, 1979.

Painting in Naples, Caravaggio to Giordano, Royal Academy, London, 1982; National Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1983; Grand Palais, Paris, 1983; Palazzo Reale, Turin, 1983.

Classicismo e Natura: La Lezione di Domenichino Rome, Gallerie Capitoline, Nov 1996 - Feb. 1997 (jointly with Sir Denis Mahon)

Publications

“The Camerino of Cardinal del Monte” Paragone, LIX, n.77, 2008, pp. 3–38

“Cardinal Del Monte & Caravaggio” in Caravaggio, exh. cat., New York 2007, p.37-43;

“Caravaggio and a New Technique” in Caravaggio, exh. cat., New York 2007, p.23-36;

“Caravaggio’s Shepherd Corydon” Paragone, LVIII, n.73, May 2007, p.55-68;

"Prospero Orsi, interprète du Caravage" Revue de l' Art 2007-1, No. 155, pp. 9–20

“Landscape paintings and drawings by Antonio Carracci” Paragone. November 2006 pp. 3–20

Caravaggio, exh. cat., Düsseldorf Kunsthalle 2006, cat. 7,11 & 33;

“Landscapes by Francesco Cozza” Apollo Magazine, July 2005;

“A name for a ridiculous man – Rinaldo Coradini by the Carracci” Festrift for Dr. Alfred Bader 2004;

“Portraiture: From the ‘Simple Portrait’ to the ‘Resemblance Parlante” The Genius of Rome 1592 – 1623, exh. cat. London, Royal Academy, 2001 pp.140–171;

Francesco Brizio; Prospetti e paesaggi, Atti dell’ Accademia Clementina, Bologna 1998;

“Antonio Carracci” Studi di storia dell’arte in onore di Denis Mahon, Electa, Milano, 2000, pp.132–152;

Classicismo e Natura; La Lezione di Domenichino, exh. cat. ed. Sir Denis Mahon & C. Whitfield, Rome, Gallerie Capitoline 1996/97 (article on ‘Paesi dal natural rapportati’ and most of the catalogue entries);

Domenichino exhibition Catalogue, Rome, Palazzo Venezia, 1996 Catalogue entry on G.B. Viola’s Flight into Egypt p. 536/37;

A propos des paysages du Poussin, in Colloque Poussin (Paris, Louvre, October 1994) 1996, Vol I, pp. 245–67;

“Les Paysages du Dominiquin et de Viola”, in Monuments et Mémoires, Fondation E. Piot, vol.69, p.61-127, 1988;

“The Landscapes of Agostino Carracci, Reflections on his role in the Carracci School”, in Les Carrache et les décors profanes, Actes du Colloque organisé par l’Ecole française de Rome, (1986), p. 73-95, 1988;

“Claude and a Bolognese Revival”, Studies in the History of Art, Washington DC., vol.14, p. 83-91, 1984;

“La décoration du Palazzetto” in Le Palais Farnèse, Ecole française de Rome, 1983;

“A Parmigianino Discovery”, The Burlington Magazine, CXXV, 950, p.276-280, May 1982;

Painting in Naples 1606 – 1705, Caravaggio to Giordano, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1982;

“Poussin Problems”, The Burlington Magazine, CXXII, 933, p.838-39, Dec. 1980;

“Early Landscapes by Annibale Carracci”, in Pantheon, XXXVIII, p.50-58, Jan-March 1980;

“Poussin’s Early Landscapes”, The Burlington Magazine, CXXI, 910, p.10-19, Jan. 1979;

“Nicolas Poussin’s ‘Orage’ and ‘Temps Calme’” The Burlington Magazine, CXIX, 886, p.4-12, Jan. 1977;

“A Programme for ‘Erminia and the Shepherds’ by G.B, Agucchi” Storia dell’Arte, no.19, 1973;

“Révélations sur une tentation d’Eve”, (Baldung Grien) in Connaissance des Arts, juin 1971, p.72-81 [edit];

External links

• Whitfield Fine Art
• Society of London Art Dealers
• Master Paintings Week

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