15 Facts About Richard Dorment

Richard Dorment worked as chief art critic for The Daily Telegraph from 1986 until 2015.

Richard Dorment's post-graduate work was at Columbia University, where he was a faculty fellow from 1968 until 1972.

Richard Dorment completed his doctorate at Columbia University in 1975 with a dissertation on Edward Burne-Jones's mosaics for the American Church in Rome.

Richard Dorment then moved to London where he wrote a Catalogue of British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1986 and a biography of the British sculptor Alfred Gilbert.

Richard Dorment became chief art critic for The Daily Telegraph in 1986.

In 1989, Richard Dorment served on the judging panel for the Turner Prize.

Richard Dorment has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Government Art Collection, a member of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art, and a member of the British Council's Advisory Committee for the Visual Arts.

Richard Dorment was a trustee of the Wallace Collection and has been a trustee of the Watts Gallery since 1996.

Richard Dorment is a contributor for The New York Review of Books, and has written for The Burlington Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Review.

In 1994 until 1995, Richard Dorment was a co-curator for the James McNeill Whistler exhibition at the Tate Gallery.

Richard Dorment curated the Alfred Gilbert: Sculptor and Goldsmith exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1986.

Richard Dorment contributed to the Victorian High Renaissance exhibition catalogue in 1978.

Richard Dorment was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2013.

Richard Dorment won the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism in Great Britain in 1992, in 2000 he was named Critic of the Year in the British Press Awards, and in 2014 his review of the reopening of the Rijksmuseum won the Holland Prize.

Richard Dorment married the novelist Harriet Waugh in 1985 and has two children from a previous marriage.