Professor Edward Paul de Gruyter Chaney PhD FSA FRHistS | |
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| Born | 1951 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England |
| Occupation | University professor |
| Title | Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Solent University |
| Board member of | Governor of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust |
| Spouse | Lisa Chaney |
| Children | 2, including Olivia Chaney |
| Awards | Commendatore of the Italian Republic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | Warburg Institute, University of London |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cultural history |
| Sub-discipline | Art, architecture, collecting, Anglo-Italian relations |
| Institutions | Southampton Solent University |
| Main interests | Grand Tour, Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations, History of Collecting, Inigo Jones, Legacy of Ancient Egypt, 20th century British Art |
| Notable works | Evolution of the Grand Tour (1998) |
| Website | https://www.solent.ac.uk/staff-profiles/academic-profiles/edward-chaney/edward-chaney |
Edward Chaney FSA FRHistS (born 1951) is a British cultural historian.[1] He is Professor Emeritus at Solent University and Honorary Professor at University College London (School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) – Centre for Early Modern Exchanges London).[2] He is an authority on the evolution of the Grand Tour, Anglo-Italian cultural relations, the history of collecting, Inigo Jones and the legacy of ancient Egypt. He also publishes on aspects of 20th-century British art. In 2003, he was made a Commendatore of the Italian Republic.[3] He is the biographer of Gerald Basil Edwards, author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page which he succeeded in publishing following the author's death in 1976.[4] This has since been recognised as a twentieth-century classic.[5]