Michael Rosenthal is Professor of the History at Art at Warwick University. His publications include The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: 'a little business for the eye' (Yale University Press, 1999), and Constable: The Painter and His Landscape (Yale University Press, 1983). He was guest curator of the major Gainsborough retrospective at Tate Britain and is currently working on a book on early colonial art in Australia.