He retired from Oxford in 1995, and was made an honorary fellow of his college. In November 1971, he was made a member of the British School at Rome for the next three years. He was additionally a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1967 to 1995. In 1967, he was elected Professor of Art History at the University of Oxford, where he remained until his retirement in 1995 the position made him, ex officio a visitor-that is, a trustee-of the Ashmolean Museum. He was additionally librarian of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Cambridge, from 1962 to 1967. In 1954, however, he was elected a fellow of the King's College, Cambridge. Haskell began his career not in academia but as a junior library clerk in the House of Commons from 1953 to 1954. At Cambridge, he was a member of the semi-secretive Cambridge Apostles society, a debating club largely reserved for the brightest students. He read history before switching to English, and among his tutors were Eric Hobsbawm and Dadie Rylands. In 1948, after serving in the Royal Army Educational Corps, Haskell matriculated into King's College, Cambridge. From ages 5 to 8, Francis attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London, and then at Eton College. His first language was French, the language shared by his parents, and he was fluent in English, French and Italian. He was the son of Arnold Haskell, an influential ballet critic and writer and Vera Saitzoff, daughter of a Russian industrialist. He wrote one of the first and most influential patronage studies, Patrons and Painters. Francis James Herbert Haskell, FBA (7 April 1928 – 18 January 2000) was an English art historian, whose writings placed emphasis on the social history of art.
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