William Vaughan

William Vaughan is a British art historian and has been emeritus professor of history of art at Birkbeck College, University of London since 2003.

He is also a printmaker, and regularly exhibits in London and Bristol under the name Will Vaughan. He is Chair of the Bruton Art Society.

Selected publications Caspar David Friedrich 1774–1840: Romantic landscape painting in Dresden: (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery London 6 September – 16 October 1972), Tate Gallery, London, 1972. Romantic Art, Thames & Hudson, London, 1978. German Romanticism and English Art, Yale, 1979. Art and the natural world in nineteenth-century Britain: Three essays (The Franklin D. Murphy lectures), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1990. German Romantic Painting, Yale 1994. Romanticism and Art, Thames & Hudson, London, 1994. William Blake, Tate Publishing, London, 1999. British Painting: The Golden Age: From Hogarth to Turner. Thames & Hudson, London, 1999. Gainsborough, Thames & Hudson, London, 2002. John Constable, Tate Publishing, London, 2002. Friedrich, Phaidon, London, 2004. Samuel Palmer: 1805–1881, Vision and Landscape, Lund Humphries, 2005. (Editor) Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall, Yale University Press, 2015.