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'''Robin Simon''' (born 1947), FSA, DLitt, is a British art historian and critic, editor of the ''[[British Art Journal]]''. He is also an experienced critic and writer of cricket.<ref name="Debretts">{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/s/15749/Robin%20John%20Hughes+SIMON.aspx|title=Robin Simon, Esq, FSA, DLitt |publisher=''[[Debretts]]''|accessdate=11 January 2013}}</ref> ▼
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Simon was a tenured academic at the [[University of Nottingham]], teaching both English Literature and Art History, and was then Director of the Institute of European Studies in London before becoming editor of ''[[Apollo (magazine)|Apollo]]'' magazine in 1990. He has written and lectured extensively on Italian art of the fourteenth century and on British art, especially of the eighteenth
Simon is the son of the late Archbishop of Wales [[Glyn Simon]]; he is married to the wine and food writer [[Joanna Simon (wine writer)|Joanna Simon]].
==Selected books and publications==
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*''Public Artist, Private Passions: The world of Edward Linley Sambourne'' (ed) (2001)
*''The Tyranny of Treatment: Samuel Johnson, his friends, and Georgian medicine'' (co-ed) (2003)
*''Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century Britain'' (2007)
*''Johan Zoffany: Society Observed'' (contrib) (2011)
*''Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting'' (ed with Martin Postle) (2014)
*''Hogarth Reynolds Turner: Pittura inglese verso la modernità'' (contrib) (
*''The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections'' (ed) (2018)
*''Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick: Plays, Painting and Performance'' (April 2023)
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