Judy Egerton

Judith Emilie Egerton (7 August 1928 – 21 March 2012) was an Australian-born British art historian and curator. She specialised in eighteenth-century British art and, particularly, the work of George Stubbs.

Early life and career Egerton was born in Melbourne, Australia as the third of five children to Jean (née Muecke) and Keith Attiwill, a journalist. She was educated at Lauriston Girls' School and, from the age of 17, at Janet Clarke Hall, then the women's college of the University of Melbourne, where she read History and graduated with first-class honours in 1948. She married Ansell Egerton in 1949 (dissolved in 1974 The Egertons returned to London in 1956. She also wrote Hogarth's Marriage-A-La-Mode, which was re-published by Yale University press in 2011 with an accompanying DVD narrated by Alan Bennett.

Egerton was employed by the National Gallery from 1988 to 1998 to revise the British school catalogue and became a senior research fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art from 1997 until 2007.

Exhibitions Joseph Wright of Derby, Tate Gallery, 1990 Stubbs, Tate Gallery & Yale Centre for British Art, 1984-5 George Stubbs, Anatomist and Animal Painter, Tate Gallery, 1976 The Age of Hogarth, Tate Gallery

Publications George Stubbs, painter: catalogue raisonné (Paul Mellon Centre by Yale University Press, 2007) The British School (National Gallery, 1998) D. Davies, F. Luard & J. Egerton, Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode (National Gallery, 1997) Turner: The Fighting Temeraire (National Gallery, 1995) Wright of Derby (Tate Gallery, c1990) J. Egerton & E. Einberg, The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709 (Tate Gallery with the assistance of J. Paul Getty Trust, 1988) J. Egerton & C. Newall, George Price Boyce (Tate Gallery, 1987) British Watercolours (Tate Gallery, 1986) British Sporting Paintings: the Paul Mellon Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Art, c1985) Stubbs: Portraits in Detail (Tate Gallery, 1984) George Stubbs 1724-1806 (Tate Gallery, 1984) The Ingenious Mr Seymour: James Seymour, 1702-1752 (British Sporting Art Trust, 1978) J. Egerton & D. Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Drawings c.1500-1850 (Tate Gallery for Yale Center for British Art, 1978) British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 (Tate Gallery for Yale Center for British Art, 1978) Drawings and Paintings by Sir Thomas Monnington PRA, 1902-1976 (Royal Academy of Arts, 1977) George Stubbs: Anatomist and Animal Painter (Tate Gallery Publications, 1976)