Tim Barringer  is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He has published widely on the art of Britain and its empire and on American landscape painting. He has co-curated many exhibitions, including “American Sublime,” “Art and Emancipation in Jamaica,” “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde,” “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings,” and “Victorian Radicals.” His writings on art and music have appeared in Art History and in collections such as British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960, The Edwardian Sense, and Vaughan Williams in Context.