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Marina Vaizey

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Marina Vaizey was art critic for the Financial Times, then the Sunday Times, edited the Art Quarterly, has been a judge for the Turner Prize, and a trustee of several museums; books include 100 Masterpieces, The Artist as Photographer and Great Women Collectors. She's currently a freelance art critic and lecturer. This drawing of Marina as a character from Jane Austen is 40 years old.

Articles By Marina Vaizey

Moore Rodin, Henry Moore Foundation

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Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars, Victoria & Albert Museum

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George Catlin: American Indian Portraits, National Portrait Gallery

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Federico Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, National Gallery

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Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901, Courtauld Gallery

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Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch, National Gallery

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Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind, British Museum

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Juergen Teller: Woo!, ICA

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Yuletide Scenes 1: The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch

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Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape, Royal Academy

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Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now, Fine Art Society

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Francesco Clemente, Blain Southern

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Jean Dubuffet/ Gwen John and Celia Paul, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

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Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British Library

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Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum

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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012, National Portrait Gallery

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