Jennifer Montagu

Jennifer Iris Rachel Montagu (born 20 March 1931) is a British art historian with emphasis in the study of Italian Baroque sculpture. Early life Montagu is a daughter of Ewen Montagu, a British judge, writer and Naval intelligence officer. She was educated at Brearley School, New York, Benenden School, Kent, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she gained a BA in PPE, then studied under Ernst Gombrich at the Warburg Institute, London, where she gained her PhD degree. Career Montagu lectured in History of Art at Reading University 1958–64, and was assistant Curator 1964–71, and Curator 1971–91, of the Photographic Collection at the Warburg Institute. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art and fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1980–81. She was Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 1991 and Invited Professor at the Collège de France, Paris, in 1994. She was a trustee of the Wallace Collection 1989–2001 and of the British Museum 1994–2001. Publications Bronzes, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1963. Alessandro Algardi, Yale University Press 1985. Roman baroque sculpture : the industry of art, Yale University Press, 1989. The expression of the passions, Yale University Press, 1994 (originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis, Warburg Institute, 1959). Gold, Silver and Bronze: metal sculpture of the Roman Baroque, Princeton University Press, 1996.