Jane Martineau

Jane Martineau is a British art historian who has served as acting editor of The Burlington Magazine. She completed her undergraduate education with a bachelor's degree in 1969.

Martineau's professional career includes a tenure at London's Royal Academy of Arts, where she worked as a curator and editor in the Exhibitions Office from 1982 to 1984. She also held the position of deputy editor at the Grove Dictionary of Art for a duration of six years, from 1989 to 1995. During her career, she has collaborated as a freelance curator on various exhibitions, notably on topics such as the Gonzaga family, which was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1982, and Shakespeare in Art, showcased in Ferrara and Dulwich in 2003.

Beginning in 2004, Martineau joined The Burlington Magazine as an associate editor and subsequently became acting editor of the publication.

In her personal life, Martineau married William Mostyn-Owen, an art historian, in 1992. William Mostyn-Owen was born in 1929 and passed away in 2011; Jane Martineau was his third wife.

Her notable publications include works on Shakespeare in Art, Andrea Mantegna, the art of Venice between 1500 and 1600, and the art in Venice during the eighteenth century.