2026 Berger Prize shortlist announced

The Walpole Society is delighted to present the shortlist for the 2026 Berger Prize.

The leading book prize for art history, the Berger Prize celebrates excellence in writing and scholarship on the arts and architecture of Britain. The prize is offered by the Walpole Society through the generosity of the Berger Collection Educational Trust. We are pleased to announce the following shortlisted titles:

Christine Casey

Architecture and Artifice: The Crafted Surface in Eighteenth-Century Building Practice

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Amy Concannon

Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals

Tate Publishing

John Hilary

Magnates and Masterpieces: The German-Jewish Collectors of Edwardian Britain

Yale University Press

Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves

Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings

Modern Art Press

Jonathan Marsden

European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty The King

Modern Art Press

Sam Smiles

Turner and the Slave Trade

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The winner will be announced on 3 December.