Background
PARKER, Karl was born in 1895. Son of the late R. W. Parker and Marie Luling.
PARKER, Karl was born in 1895. Son of the late R. W. Parker and Marie Luling.
Bedford, Paris, Zurich. Continental art centres and British Museum.
Assistant Keeper Department, of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. Keeper Department, of Fine Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1934-1935. Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1945-1962 (retired).
Trustee, National Gallery 1962-1969. Honorary Antiquary to the Royal Academy. Honorary Fellow Oriel College, Oxford.
Honorary Doctor of Letters (Oxford) 1972.
North Italian Drawings of the Quattrocento, Drawings of the Early German Schools, Alsatian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries, Drawings of Antoine Watteau, Catalogue of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museums (Vol. I 1938, Vol. II 1956), Holbein’s Drawings at Windsor Castle 1945, The Drawings of Antonio Canaletto in Windsor Castle 1948, Antoine Watteau: Catalogue Complet deson Oeuvre dessine Vol. I (with J. Mathey) 1957, Vol.
Married Audrey James (died in 1976).