Education
He was educated at Smithills Grammar School in Bolton, the University of Reading and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
He was educated at Smithills Grammar School in Bolton, the University of Reading and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
From 2006 to 2010 he was director and president of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, District of Columbia He has also been head of research for the ceramics and glass Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Modern Ideal: The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in the Visual Arts from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism.