Delacroix

About Dr Simon LeeSimon Lee

Simon Lee is Associate Professor in the History of Art University of Reading. He specializes in French and Spanish art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries particularly the work of Jacques-Louis David Eugène Delacroix and Francisco de Goya. His particular interests are in the relationship between the visual arts and the social and political upheavals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Lee is the author of Phaidons A&I series volume on the French Neo-classical painter David (1999).