George Speake

George Speake
FSA
NationalityEnglish
EducationSlade School of Fine Art
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forLeading authority on Anglo-Saxon animal art
Scientific career
FieldsArt history and archaeology
InstitutionsInstitute of Archaeology at Oxford
Thesis The beginnings and developments of Salin's style II in England  (1974)
Doctoral advisorSonia Chadwick Hawkes[1]
Other academic advisors

George Speake, FSA is an English art historian and archaeologist.[2][3] He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford,[2][3] and "a leading authority on Anglo-Saxon animal art."[2] Currently Speake is the Anglo-Saxon Art and Iconography Specialist for the Staffordshire Hoard conservation team,[4] and is working on the reconstruction of the Staffordshire helmet.[5][6]

  1. ^ Henig, Martin; Smith, Tyler Jo (2007), "Introduction", Collectanea Antiqua: Essays in Memory of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, BAR International Series, no. 1673, BAR Publishing, p. 2
  2. ^ a b c Barbican Research.
  3. ^ a b Speake CV.
  4. ^ Butterworth et al. 2016, pp. 34, 41.
  5. ^ ICON 2016.
  6. ^ Peopling Insular Art 2017.