Martin Royalton-Kisch
Senior Curator
Dutch and Flemish prints and
drawings around 1400-1880, French drawings from around
1400-1880
Department: Prints and
Drawings
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8662
Email: mkisch @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Curator with specialist interests in the
period from around 1550-1670, with particular emphasis on the work
of artists well represented in the British Museum, including Pieter
Bruegel the Elder, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt (and his
circle). The history of collecting and other aspects of art history
are also of interest.
Current British Museum projects
Previous British Museum projects
Many exhibitions, including those for which see catalogues below
as key publications.
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Master
Drawings
Specialist Consultant to the London Diocesan Advisory
Committee
Member of Steering Committee of the International Database of
Watermarks in Paper of Prints and Drawings
Publications
M. Royalton-Kisch, Adriaen van de Venne's Album in the
Department of Prints and Drawings in the British
Museum, (London, The British Museum Press, 1988)
M. Royalton-Kisch, Drawings by Rembrandt
and his Circle in the British Museum (London, The British
Museum Press, 1992) (exhibition catalogue)
M. Royalton-Kisch, The Light of Nature:
Landscape Drawings and Watercolours by Van Dyck and his
Contemporaries (London and Antwerp, 1999) (exhibition
catalogue)
M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the
Printmaker, with E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, P. Schatborn,
(Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, and London, British Museum, 2000-2001)
(exhibition catalogue)
M. Royalton-Kisch, ‘Pieter Bruegel as a
Draftsman: The Changing Image’, in Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Drawings and Prints, with N. M. Orenstein (ed.), (Yale
University Press, New Haven and London, 2001) pp.12-39
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Museum Boijmans Van
Bauningen, Rotterdam exhibition catalogue)