Edward Chaney
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Professor Edward Paul de Gruyter Chaney PhD FSA FRHistS |
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| Born | 1951 Hillingdon, Middlesex |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | University Professor |
| Title | Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Solent University |
| Board member of | Governor of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Chaney |
| Children | Jessica Chaney, Olivia Chaney |
| Awards | Commendatore of the Italian Republic |
| Website | www |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | Warburg Institute, University of London |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cultural Historian |
| Sub discipline | Art, Architecture, Collecting, Anglo-Italian relations |
| Institutions | Southampton Solent University |
| Main interests | Grand Tour, Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations, History of Collecting, Inigo Jones, Legacy of Ancient Egypt, 20th century British Art |
| Notable works | Evolution of the Grand Tour (1998) |
Edward Chaney PhD FSA FRHistS (born 1951) is a British cultural historian. He is currently Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts at Southampton Solent University. He is an authority on the evolution of the Grand Tour, Anglo-Italian cultural relations, the history of collecting, Inigo Jones and the legacy of ancient Egypt. He also publishes on aspects of 20th-century British art. In 2003, he was made a Commendatore of the Italian Republic. He is the biographer of Gerald Basil Edwards, author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page which he succeeded in publishing following the author’s death in 1976. This has since been recognised as a twentieth-century classic.
He was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, Ealing School of Art and subsequently gained a first class degree in History of Art at Reading University. He completed an MPhil and PhD at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He also has a Laurea from the University of Pisa. He married biographer Lisa Chaney (née Jacka) in Paris, 1973, and has two daughters, Jessica Chaney, former Art Director of Apollo magazine, and singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney. Marriage dissolved 2003.
From 1978 to 1985 he lived in Florence where he was a 'Ricercatore' at the European University Institute, adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University's Villa Le Balze, an Associate of Harvard University's Villa I Tatti and taught at the University of Pisa. From 1985 to 1990 he was the Shuffrey Research Fellow in Architectural History at Lincoln College, Oxford. He subsequently worked for English Heritage as historian to the London region and lectured in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. In 1997 was appointed Professor Fine and Decorative Arts at the Southampton Institute, now Southampton Solent University, where he established the History of Collecting Research Centre. In 2014 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Art History at the New College of the Humanities and January–March 2015 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.
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