H. Perry Chapman
University of Delaware (emerita)
Rembrandt’s Art History
Kress-Beinecke and Samuel H. Kress Professors
In addition to pursuing independent research, the Kress-Beinecke Professor is the senior member of the Center and counsels predoctoral fellows.
The one-year Samuel H. Kress Professorship was established by the National Gallery, with the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, in 1965. From 2018 this appointment, newly endowed by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in response to a challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, became known as the Kress-Beinecke Professorship.
2022–2023
2021–2022
Lowery Stokes Sims
Museum of Arts and Design (emerita)
The Emergence of a New Black Art Canon
2020–2021
Dell Upton
University of California, Los Angeles
Graven Images: The Unsettled Lives of Public Monuments
2019–2020
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Harvard University
Drawing Conclusions: Diagrams in the Middle Ages and Other Projects
2018–2019
Maryan W. Ainsworth
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art of Discovery: Early Netherlandish Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2017–2018
Diane Favro
University of California, Los Angeles (emerita)
Constructing Victories: Arches as Celebrations of Roman Infrastructure
2016–2017
Dale Kinney
Bryn Mawr College (emerita)
Santa Maria in Trastevere: The Life of a Medieval Building in Early Modern Rome
2015–2016
Iain Boyd Whyte
University of Edinburgh
Survey and Anthology
2014–2015
Robert S. Nelson
Yale University
Gifts of Presence: Itineraries of a Greek Manuscript from Constantinople to Florence and from the Middles Ages to the Enlightenment
2013–2014
S. Hollis Clayson
Northwestern University
Electric Paris: Episodes from the Visual Culture of the City of Light in the Era of Thomas Edison
2012–2013
Oskar Bätschmann
University of Bern (emeritus)
Last Works
2011–2012
Julian Gardner
University of Warwick (emeritus)
What's in a Name? Giotto di Bondone
2010–2011
Joseph J. Rishel
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2009–2010
Bert W. Meijer
Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence / Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus)
2008–2009
John House
Courtauld Institute of Art
2007–2008
Rudolf Preimesberger
Freie Universität Berlin (emeritus)
2006–2007
Wanda M. Corn
Stanford University
2005–2006
Annamaria Petrioli Tofani
Galleria degli Uffizi (emerita)
2004–2005
Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
2003–2004
Virginia Spate
University of Sydney
2002–2003
Wolf-Dieter Dube
formerly Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2001–2002
Richard Ormond
formerly National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
2000–2001
Juergen Schulz
Brown University (emeritus)
1999–2000
Mina Gregori
Università di Firenze
1998–1999
Ilene H. Forsyth
University of Michigan (emerita)
1997–1998
1997–1998
Bezalel Narkiss
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1996–1997
Hubert Damisch
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1995–1996
David R. Coffin
Princeton University (emeritus)
1994–1995
Jean Sutherland Boggs
formerly Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1993–1994
Anthony Radcliffe
Victoria and Albert Museum (emeritus)
1992–1993
Anne Coffin Hanson
Yale University (emerita)
1991–1992
John Coolidge
Harvard University (emeritus)
1990–1991
Per Bjurström
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
1989–1990
Milton W. Brown
City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center
1988–1989
Sylvie Béguin
Musée du Louvre
1987–1988
Craig Hugh Smyth
Harvard University (emeritus)
1956–1987
Lawrence Burnett Gowing
Royal Academy
1985–1986
George Alexander Kubler
Yale University, emeritus
1984–1985
Charles Mitchell
Bryn Mawr College, emeritus
1983–1984
Philippe M. Verdier
Université de Montréal, emeritus
1982–1983
Harold Edwin Wethey
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, emeritus
Spring 1982
Jean V. Bony
University of California – Berkeley, emeritus
Fall 1981
Frank Edward Brown
formerly American Academy in Rome
1980–1981
Leopold David Ettlinger
University of California – Berkeley
Spring 1980
Otto Von Simson
Freie Universitiit, Berlin, emeritus
Fall 1979
William Sebastian Heckscher
Duke University, emeritus
1978–1979
George Heard Hamilton
Williams College, emeritus
1977–1978
Agnes Mongan
Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, emerita
Spring 1977
Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fall 1976
Wolfgang Lotz
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
1975–1976
Francis J. B. Watson
Wallace Collection
1974–1975
Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London
1973–1974
Ary Bob De Vries
Mauritshuis, The Hague, emeritus
1972–1973
Carl A. J. Nordenfalk
University of Cambridge
1971–1972
William Chapin Seitz
University of Virginia
1970–1971
Wolfgang Stechow
Cleveland Museum of Art
1969–1970
Rudolf Wittkower
Columbia University, emeritus
1968–1969
Egbert Haverkamp-Begeman
Yale University
1967–1968
René Huyghe
College de France
1965–1966, 1966–1967
Jakob Rosenberg
Harvard University, emeritus