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- ↑ "Slade Professorship of Fine Art", University of Oxford, retrieved 21 June 2017
- ↑ Oxford University website
- ↑ Official History of Oxford University, Vol VII
- ↑ List of Slade Professors in the Department from 1869, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge
- ↑ Oxford Slade Professors – History of Art Department Archived 2015-02-13 at the Wayback Machine , Oxford University
