Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art

The Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art is a professorship at the University of Edinburgh.

History

The chair was founded in 1880. John Watson Gordon was a Scottish painter who died in 1864. His brother and sister endowed the professorship in his memory in 1879.^[1] The establishment of the chair resulted in progress in the teaching of art history.^[2][3]

Professors

• Gerard Baldwin Brown 1880–1930
• Herbert Read 1931–1933
• David Talbot Rice 1934–1972
• Giles Robertson 1973–1981
• Eric Fernie 1984–1995
• Richard Thomson 1996–^[4]