Marcia Pointon

Marcia Pointon is a historian of British art. She trained at the University of Manchester, receiving her PhD there in 1974. From 1975, she was at the University of Sussex, becoming Professor of the History of Art in 1989. In 1992, she moved to the University of Manchester to take the ''Pilkington Professorship in the History of Art'', a position she held until 2002. She now works as a free-lance consultant and researcher. Provided by Wikipedia