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Template:Use dmy dates The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London.

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The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collector and philanthropist Felix Slade, with studentships also created at University College London. The studentships allowed for the creation of the Slade School of Art, now part of University College London, whose Director holds the Slade Professorship. They are normally therefore a practising artist.

The chair at Oxford is a visiting professorship, with duties restricted to a series of eight public lectures per year, on the "History, Theory, and Practice of the Fine Arts",<ref>"Slade Professorship of Fine Art", University of Oxford, retrieved 21 June 2017</ref> to which four seminars have been added from 2011. The professorship is associated with All Souls College, Oxford.<ref>Oxford University website</ref> The bequest was also indirectly responsible for the foundation of the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, which was financed by the first Oxford professor, John Ruskin, who announced his intention in his inaugural lecture "to the general dismay of his listeners".<ref>Official History of Oxford University, Vol VII</ref>

The Cambridge Lectures are also a series of eight public lectures by a visiting professor. The Oxford and Cambridge professors are most often art historians or critics, but some artists have held the posts, especially at Oxford. The lectures are often subsequently published in book version.

Slade Professors, University College, LondonEdit

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Slade Professors, Cambridge UniversityEdit

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Source: <ref>List of Slade Professors in the Department from 1869, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge</ref>

Slade Professors, Oxford UniversityEdit

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Template:Div col end Source: <ref>Oxford Slade Professors – History of Art Department Template:Webarchive, Oxford University</ref>

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