William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2020
![]() | Hugh Belsey Thomas Gainsborough. The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ISBN 978-0-300232097 20 vols pp1112 hb £150 bw & col 1300 |
![]() | Louise Campbell Studio Lives. Architect, Art and Artist in 20th-Century Britain Lund Humphries ISBN 978-1848223134 pp288 hb £35 bw 70 col 40 |
![]() | Caroline Elam Roger Fry and Italian Art Ad Ilissum/The Burlington Magazine (distributed by Paul Holberton) ISBN 978-1912168088 pp452 hb £100 250 ill |
![]() | Elizabeth Goldring Nicholas Hilliard. Life of an Artist Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ISBN 978-0300241426 pp352 hb £40 col 250 |
![]() | Carol Jacobi, ed The EY exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain Tate Publishing ISBN 978-1849766029 pp240 pb £25 col 227 |
![]() | Sarah Lodge Inventing Edward Lear Harvard University Press ISBN 978-0674971158 pp448 hb £23.95 bw 81 col 17 |
Long List
Andrew Lambirth
Life of Bryan – A Celebration of Bryan Robertson
Unicorn Press
ISBN 978-1916495739 pp320 hb £30 col 100
Andrew Lambirth
John Nash: Artist & Countryman
Unicorn Press
ISBN 978-1916495702 pp256 hb £40 bw 100 col200
Ian Collins
Two Lives in Colour: Fred Dubery
and Joanne Brogden
Unicorn Press
ISBN 978-1911604730 pp160 hb £25 col 300
James Bartos
The Geometry of Beauty:
The Not Very British Art of Six British Artists
Unicorn Press
ISBN 978-1912690343 pp320 hb £30 col 96
Penny Hunting
My Dearest Heart:
The Artist Mary Beale 1633–1699
Unicorn Press
ISBN 978-1912690084 pp208 hb £25 col 120
Jim Davies
Illustrating Armageddon:
Fortunino Matania and the First World War
Uniform Press (an imprint of Unicorn)
ISBN 978-1912690015 pp416 hb £30 bw200 col 20
Rob Donovan
The Remarkable Life of Jago Stone:
Once a Burglar, Always an Artist
Unicorn Press
ISBN 978-1912690428 pp240 pb £20 col 64
Peter Humfrey
The Stafford Gallery: The Greatest Art Collection
of Regency London
Unicorn Press
ISBN 978-1916495753 pp342 hb £60 col 150
David Bindman, ed
Hogarth, Place and Progress
Soane Museum
ISBN 978-1999693213 pp144 pb £24.95
bw 68 col 121
Peter Wakelin
Refuge and Renewal:
Migration and British Art
Sansom & Co
ISBN 978-1911408543 pp112 pb £20 ill
Anne Anderson
Beyond the Brotherhood:
The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy
Sansom & Co
ISBN 978-1911408 550 pp 128 pb £17.50 ill
Paul Moorhouse
Bridget Riley A Very Very Person.
The Early Years
Ridinghouse
ISBN 978-1909932500 pp272 pb £20 bw19 col 11
Paul Moorhouse
John Virtue
Ridinghouse
ISBN 978-1909932524 pp286 hb £38 bw 230
Suzanne Fagence Cooper and Richard Johns
Ruskin, Turner & The Storm Cloud
Paul Holberton
ISBN 978-1911300601 pp120 pb £20.00 col 50
Diane Bilbey
Britain Can Make It:
The 1946 Exhibition of Design
Paul Holberton
ISBN 978-1911300540 pp256 pb £20 col 230
Eric Akers-Douglas, ed Lawrence Hendra
Divine People: The Art and Life of Ambrose McEvoy 1877–1927
Paul Holberton
ISBN 978-1911300793 pp288 hb £35 col 100
Anthony Spira, Martin Postle and Paul Bonaventura
George Stubbs: ‘All done from Nature’
Paul Holberton
ISBN 978-1911300687 pp224 pb £35 col 150
Caroline Elam
Roger Fry and Italian Art
Ad Ilissum/The Burlington Magazine (distributed by Paul Holberton)
ISBN 978-1912168088 pp452 hb £100 250 ill
Arthur MacGregor
Company Curiosities Nature,
Culture and the East India Company, 1600–1874
Reaktion Books
ISBN 978-1789140033 pp400 hb £40 bw 61 col 116
Kate Retford and Susanna Avery-Quash, eds
The Georgian London Town House.
Building, Collecting and Display
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN 978-1501337291 pp364 hb £90 bw 60 col 32
ISBN 978-1501337307 EPUB/MORI £97.20
ISBN 978-1501337314 pdf eBook £97.20
Maria Quirk
Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England, 1880–191: The Hustle and the Scramble
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN 978-1501343056 pp248 hb £85 tables 5
ISBN 978-1501343063 EPUB/MORI £91.80
ISBN 978-1501343070 pdf eBook £91.80
Rosika Desnoyers
Pictorial Embroidery in England
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN 978-1350071759 pp184 hb £85 bw 41 col 19
ISBN 978-1350071773 EPUB/MOBI eBook £91.80
ISBN 978-1350071766 pdf £91.80
William Dalrymple
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company
Philip Wilson Publishers (imprint of Bloomsbury)
ISBN 978-1781301012 pp192 hb £35
Tobias Capwell and Hannah Higham
Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads
Philip Wilson Publishers (imprint of Bloomsbury)
ISBN 978-1781300770 pp160 pb £25 col 110 (ebook available)
William Feaver
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth, 1922–1968
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 978-1408850930 pp704 hb £35 bw 48 col 28
ISBN 978-1408850947 EPUB/MOBI eBook £29.40
Louise Campbell
Studio Lives. Architect, Art and Artist in 20th-Century Britain
Lund Humphries
ISBN 978-1848223134 pp288 hb £35 bw 70 col 40
Monica Bohm-Duchen
Insiders Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe
and their Contribution to British Visual Culture
Lund Humphries
ISBN 978-1848223462 pp256 hb £40 col 144
Alicia Foster
Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries
Lund Humphries
ISBN 978-1848223707 pp128 hb £35 bw 7 col 64
Valeria Carullo
Moholy-Nagy in Britain: 1935–1937
Lund Humphries
ISBN 978-1848223769 pp96 pb £29.95 col 80
Eleanor Clayton and Helen Little
Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works
Lund Humphries
ISBN 978-1848223752 pp112 pb £24.99 bw 15 col 60
Philip Modiano
Petit’s Tours of Old Staffordshire
RPS Publications
ISBN 978-1916493100 pp180 pb £14 bw14 col 173 col maps 57
Francis Hutton-Williams
Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde
Cork University Press
ISBN 978-1782053569 pp160 hb €39 ill
Catharine MacLeod
Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver
National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 978-1855147324 pp25 hb £14.95 col 140
Jan Marsh et al.
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 978-1855147270 pp224 hb £35 col 160
Museum of Art Lucerne, ed
Contributions by D Blayney Brown, L Breitschmid,
F Fetzer, C Nooteboom, E Suter, B Wisner
Turner: The Sea and the Alps
Hirmer Verlag
ISBN 978-3777432663 pp180 hb £32 col 100
Giovanni Aloi
Lucian Freud Herbarium
Prestel Publishing
ISBN 978-3791385334 pp176 hb £39.99 col 119
Elain Harwood
Art Deco Britain: Buildings of the Interwar Years
Batsford (imprint of Pavilion Books)
ISBN 978-1849945271 pp272 hb £25 col 119
Twentieth Century Society
100 Churches 100 Years
Batsford (imprint of Pavilion Books)
ISBN 978-1849945141 pp208 hb £25 col 230
Colin Thom
Robert Adam and his Brothers.
New light on Britain’s leading architectural family
Liverpool University Press
ISBN 978-1848023598 pp280 hb £65 bw 79 col 153
Adrian Eeles, ed
Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered
The Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon,
in association with Paul Holberton
ISBN 978-1911300571 pp159 hb £35 bw 24 col 172
ISBN 978-1911300748 pb £25
Andrew Dempsey, Lulu Norman and Jackie Wullschlager
Leon Kossoff. A London Life
Piano Nobile Publications
ISBN 978-1901192537 pp144 hb £45 bw 4 col 71
Carol Jacobi
The EY exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain
Tate Publishing
ISBN 978-1849766029 pp240 pb £25 col 227
Dennis T Lanigan and Ronald Lessens
Henry Wallis (1830–1916).
rom Pre-Raphaelite Painter to Collector/Connoisseur
ACC Art Books
ISBN 978-1788840279 pp320 hb £45 bw 119 col 164
Martin Harrison, ed
Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology
(Francis Bacon Studies)
The estate of Francis Bacon Publishing in association with Thames & Hudson
ISBN 978-0500970973 pp156 pb £28 ill
David Dawson, Joseph Leo Koerner, Jasper Sharp
and Sebastian Smee
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 978-1912520060 pp152 hb £35 ill
Roy Strong
The Elizabethan Image
Yale University Press
ISBN 978-0300244298 pp224 hb £35 col 230
Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe
Ernest Gimson Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect
Yale University Press
ISBN 978-0300246261 pp372 hb £50 ill 320
Clarissa Campbell Orr
Mrs Delany: A Life
Yale University Press
ISBN 978-0300161137 pp448 hb £30 illl 50
Richard Cork
Young Bomberg and the Old Masters
National Gallery London / Yale University Press
ISBN 978-1857096477 pp64 pb £16.95 col 65
Elizabeth Goldring
Nicholas Hilliard. Life of an Artist
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 978-0300241426 pp352 hb £40 col 250
Sarah Thomas
Witnessing Slavery – Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 978-1913107055 pp304 hb £45 col 168
David Cannadine
Westminster Abbey. A Church in History
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
in association with Westminster Abbey
ISBN 978-1913107024 pp456 hb £35 bw 100 col 100
Hugh Belsey
Thomas Gainsborough.
The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 978-0-300232097 20 vols pp1112 hb £150 bw & col 1300
Sarah Lodge
Inventing Edward Lear
Harvard University Press
ISBN 978-0674971158 pp448 hb £23.95 bw 81 col 17
Matthew C Potter
British Art for Australia, 1860–1953:
The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom
by Australian National Galleries
Routledge / Taylor & Francis
ISBN 978-1472426369 pp262 hb £96 bw 38 col 12
ISBN 978-0429423666 eBook £44.99
Katherine Field (cat and essay),
essays by Gábor Bellák and Beáta Somfalvi
Philip de László: ‘I am an Artist of the World’
De László Archive Trust
The de Laszlo Archive Trust
ISBN 978-1-5272-4619-5 pb £15 (office@delaszlo.com)
pp90 bw 74 col 60
Douglas Fordham
Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9781913107048 pp328 hb £45 bw col251

2019 WINNER
The prize of £5000 for the best book in the field published in 2018 was presented by Rachel Campbell Johnston to Nicholas Savage for:
Burlington House: Home of the Royal Academy of Arts
Published by the Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781910350805 pp368 hb £60 bw col
The assessors commented:
Nicholas Savage writes brilliantly, and this book is a entertaining as any novel in its account of what is an archetypal instance of a much-abused London landmark. It is rare indeed to find someone who can distil so much complex material into such limpid prose and with such wit. The book is beautifully produced, with a most original sense of design, and is a model of exemplary and complex research presented with lucidity in all respects.