Professor Mark Hallett is the Märit Rausing Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Mark’s scholarly research has focused on British art from the seventeenth century onwards. Books he has written and edited include The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth (Yale University Press, 1999); Hogarth (Phaidon Press, 2000); Reynolds: Portraiture in Action (Yale University Press, 2014); and Court, Country, City: British Art and Architecture, 1660–1735 (edited with Nigel Llewellyn and Martin Myrone, Yale University Press, 2016). He also co-edited the major online publication, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018 (Paul Mellon Centre, 2018). He has also been involved in curating and co-curating numerous exhibitions, including Hogarth at Tate Britain (Tate Britain, 2007), William Etty: Art and Controversy (York Art Gallery, 2011), Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint (Wallace Collection, 2015) and George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field (Yale Center for British Art, 2018).
Before taking on his role at the Courtauld in 2023, Mark was the Director of Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, from 2012. Between 2018 and 2023 he co-chaired BAN’s Steering Group together with Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain.
