Peter Alexander Tomory

Peter Alexander Tomory (3 January 1922 – 25 March 2008) was a British art historian, museum curator and director.

Biography Tomory was born in Hong Kong and educated in India and the UK.

In 1950 he was appointed Assistant Curator of York Art Gallery under Hans Hess.

He left the art gallery in 1964 to take up a post in the newly formed Art History department of the University of Auckland. He left that post to teach at Columbia University and Hunter College. He also worked as the Senior Curator of Baroque Art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

In 1972 he was appointed Professor of the History of Art at La Trobe University where he worked for fifteen years. He was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1974 and served on its council from 1984 to 1986. He was also a founding member of the Art Association of Australia.

In 1987 he retired and returned to the UK.

Select publications 1979. (with J H Füssli). The poetical circle: Fuseli and the British 1989. (with Robert Gaston) European paintings before 1800: in Australian and New Zealand public collections 1997. (with Anne Kirker). British Painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand Collections. Sydney, Beagle Press.