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Francis Haskell (Francis James Herbert Haskell) was born on 7 April, 1928, is an English art historian. Discover Francis Haskell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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1928

Francis James Herbert Haskell, (7 April 1928 – 18 January 2000) was an English art historian, whose writings placed emphasis on the social history of art.

He wrote one of the first and most influential patronage studies, Patrons and Painters.

Haskell was born on 7 April 1928.

He was the son of Arnold Haskell, an influential ballet critic and writer and Vera Saitzoff, daughter of a Russian industrialist and sister of writer Boris Zaytsev. His first language was French, the language shared by his parents, and he was fluent in English, French and Italian.

From ages 5 to 8, Francis attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London, and then at Eton College.

1948

In 1948, after serving in the Royal Army Educational Corps, Haskell matriculated into King's College, Cambridge.

He read history before switching to English, and among his tutors were Eric Hobsbawm and Dadie Rylands.

At Cambridge, he was a member of the semi-secretive Cambridge Apostles society, a debating club largely reserved for the brightest students.

1953

Haskell began his career not in academia but as a junior library clerk in the House of Commons from 1953 to 1954.

1954

In 1954, however, he was elected a fellow of the King's College, Cambridge.

1958

His interest in the circumstances in which paintings were displayed, which reflected the esteem in which they were held and influenced the way they were perceived runs as a leitmotiv through his published work, beginning with an article jointly written with Michael Levey in Arte Veneta, 1958, that was devoted to art exhibitions in eighteenth-century Venice.

His wife, Larissa Salmina, had been a curator at the Hermitage Museum.

1962

He was additionally librarian of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Cambridge, from 1962 to 1967.

1965

They married in 1965 and lived in Walton Street, Oxford.

They did not have any children.

1967

In 1967, he was elected Professor of Art History at the University of Oxford, where he remained until his retirement in 1995; the position made him, ex officio a visitor—that is, a trustee—of the Ashmolean Museum.

He was additionally a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1967 to 1995.

1971

In November 1971, he was made a member of the British School at Rome for the next three years.

In 1971, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

1976

He was a trustee of the Wallace Collection from 1976 to 1997.

In 1976 Haskell, who often served on advisory committees for museum loan exhibitions, joined the National Art Collections Fund committee and became one of its most vocal members, defending the purchase of Poussin's Rebecca and Eliezar for the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (the government refused to accept the painting because it had been in the collection of the disgraced Anthony Blunt).

Haskell's research focused beyond art works to people that surrounded them, including their patrons and history of the academic study of art.

1977

His book Rediscoveries in Art won the first Jan Mitchell Prize in 1977.

Haskell had been made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the President of France in recognition of his work.

1979

In 1979, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1985

He was awarded the Serena medal for Italian studies by the British Academy in 1985.

1994

He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1994.

1995

He retired from Oxford in 1995, and was made an honorary fellow of his college.

2000

Haskell died of liver cancer on 18 January 2000, aged 71.