Edward Chaney

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Edward Chaney PhD FSA FRHistS (born 1951) is a British cultural historian. 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). 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. 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. This has since been recognised as a twentieth-century classic.

He was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, Ealing School of Art and subsequently gained a first class degree in History of Art at Reading University. He completed an MPhil and PhD at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He also has a Laurea from the University of Pisa. He married biographer Lisa Chaney (née Jacka) in Paris, 1973, and has two daughters, Jessica Chaney, former art director of Apollo magazine, and singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney. Marriage dissolved 2002.

From 1978 to 1985 he lived in Florence where he was a ‘Ricercatore’ at the European University Institute, adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Villa Le Balze, an Associate of Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti and taught at the University of Pisa. From 1985 to 1990 he was the Shuffrey Research Fellow in Architectural History at Lincoln College, Oxford. He subsequently worked for English Heritage as historian to the London region and lectured in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. In 1997 was appointed Professor Fine and Decorative Arts at the Southampton Institute, now Southampton Solent University, where he established the History of Collecting Research Centre. In 2014 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Art History at the New College of the Humanities and January–March 2015 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.

[This book] will be indispensable to anyone with an interest in the development of the cultural history of England in the 17th century. That it is also stimulating, informative and very readable are the book’s incidental merits. Thomas Tuohy, The British Art Journal, V:1, Spring/Summer 2004

For the Early Modern period, Edward Chaney’s path-breaking ‘The Grand Tour and the Great Rebellion’ on English royalists … underlines the dynamics of exile and the varied forms of interaction between exiles and their host societies. Philip Mansel & Torsten Riotte, Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

We tend to think of the Grand Tour as the province of Georgian lords and gentlemen living in a golden age of light and proportion and good taste. The reality began much earlier, lasted longer and was neither so tidy nor so predictable. Professor Chaney’s constant endeavour – and success – in expanding the boundaries and exploring the diversity of the concept stimulates us all to a new appreciation of the enormous indebtedness of our island culture to Renaissance Italy, and of the manifold ways in which the transalpine lands remain our spiritual home. Kerry Downes (Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Reading).

This book’s 107 black-and-white illustrations and photographs and 11 colour plates are a tremendous boon; … But the real skill on show here is Edward Chaney and Timothy Wilks’ recreation of the social and artistic milieu for this originary moment of one of the most important cultural practices to shape elite young Englishmen for more than 300 years. Claire Jowitt, Times Higher Education Supplement, 20 March 2014

… the author’s researches and his personal knowledge of Edwards do bring this strange and wayward man to life..’
William Palmer, ‘Guernsey’s Finest’, Literary Review, August 2016

A consistently fascinating attempt to chart the life of a geniune literary outsider.’ D.J. Taylor, ‘Patches, tricks and wickedness’, Times Literary Supplement, 9 September 2016

In 2016 he was appointed Governor of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

‘No one is better fitted than Edward Chaney to write this book. It is a seminal study of a great, but neglected writer, and it places G.B. Edwards in his proper historical, literary and philosophical context for the first time.‘
Peter Goodall

‘This is a remarkable book which sets out to show us that the half-forgotten Gerald Edwards, author of a single magnum opus, should (like Lampedusa) be acknowledged as one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Writing with skill and conviction, calling on some impressive witnesses (in particular John Stewart Collis) to give evidence, Chaney makes a powerful case that will surprise and impress readers to-day.’ Sir Michael Holroyd

No one interested in the impact of Italy on English civilisation from the Middle Ages onwards will read this remarkable book without finding out something he did not know and experiencing the thrill of a connection he has not seen. Professor Chaney’s range is as wide and refreshing as his learning is exact. He uses his eyes and his judgement is never indecisive. Richard Ollard

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