David Cordingly
Currently the Deputy Head of the Department of Pictures in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, David Cordingly is the author of Marine Painting in England, the first substantial modern survey of the subject. He read history at Oxford and later took a doctorate at Sussex University. After several years as designer, including four years in the British Museum exhibition office, he became Keeper of the Art Gallery and Museum at Brighton where he organised the Painters of the Sea exhibition. Following a period as Assistant Director of the Museum of London he moved to Greenwich, where he was co - organiser of The Art of Van de Veldes exhibition, a highly important tribute to the greatest marine painters of all time. As one of the serie editors for Conway's Marine Artists he is joinly responsible fo developing new contributions to the series, and is himself on a book about the types of shipping and craft represented in Dutch marine painting.
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