Richard Wendorf

Richard Harold Wendorf (born 17 March 1948) is an American and British art historian, literary critic, and museum and library director. He served as the director of the American Museum & Gardens near Bath, England (formerly the American Museum in Britain) from January 2010 until his retirement in December 2021.

Before this, Wendorf was the Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, the Librarian (director) of Harvard University's Houghton Library, and Professor of English and art history at Northwestern University. His book on Sir Joshua Reynolds won the biennial Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is currently working on a critical study of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Provided by Wikipedia