David Bindman (1940–2025) wasemeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of thehistory of art atUniversity College London and has been a research fellow at theHutchins Center for African & African American Research (formerly W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute) atHarvard University since 2006. He was the brother of human rights lawyerGeoffrey Bindman.^[1]

David Bindman was born in 1940. He was educated atOxford University, Harvard University and theCourtauld Institute of Art, London.^[2]

Bindman was emeritus professor of thehistory of art atUniversity College London. In 2015, afestschrift was published in his honour by UCL Press, titledBurning Bright.^[3][4]

• Blake as an artist. Phaidon, 1977.ISBN 978-0714816371
• Hogarth.Thames & Hudson, London, 1981.
• Shadow of the guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution. British Museum Publications, London, 1989.ISBN 0714116378
• Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Sculpture as Theatre.Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995. (With Malcolm Baker)ISBN 978-0300063332
• Hogarth and his times: Serious comedy. British Museum Press, London, 1997. US:University of California Press.
• William Blake: The complete illuminated books. Thames & Hudson, London, 2000.ISBN 0500510148
• Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the idea of race in the 18th century.Cornell University Press, 2002.ISBN 978-0801440854
• John Flaxman: Line into contour. Ikon Gallery, 2013.ISBN 978-1904864813

• Burning bright: Essays in honour of David Bindman. Edited by Diana Dethloff, Tessa Murdoch and Kim Sloan, with Caroline Elam. UCL Press, London, 2015.ISBN 978-1-910634-34-9 (Free pdf download)

• Luke Syson,"‘A revolutionary flame burned bright within him’: David Bindman (1940–2025)",Apollo, 12 June 2020.

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