As the Trustee body of the Art Fund, the Board has the primary task of considering applications from museums and galleries for grants towards the purchase of works of art, and offers of gifts as well as bequests. Members include art historians, collectors and others with relevant artistic or business expertise.
The combined knowledge of the Board covers art of all kinds and periods. When additional specialist knowledge is required, members of the Advisory Council and other experts may be consulted.
- David Verey CBE
- Paul Zuckerman
- Caroline Butler
- Richard Calvocoressi CBE
- Professor Michael Craig-Martin RA CBE
- Professor Chris Gosden
- Antony Griffiths FBA
- Christopher Lloyd CVO
- James Lingwood
- Jonathan Marsden LVO FSA
- Sally Osman
- Philippa Glanville FSA
- Professor Deborah Swallow
- Professor Lisa Tickner FBA
- Professor William Vaughan FSA
- Michael G Wilson OBE
CHAIRMAN
David Verey CBE
Elected 2004
David Verey CBE has been Chairman of the Art Fund since 2004. Positions include: Lead non-executive Director of DCMS; Trustee of the Pilgrim Trust; Trustee of the Teaching Awards Trust; Director, Daily Mail and General Trust plc; Director, Sofina SA; Member of the Supervisory Board of Bank Gutmann; Fellow of Eton College; Member of the Finance Committee of Trinity College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford; Chairman of the Tate Gallery Trustees, 1998–2004.
TREASURER
Paul Zuckerman
Elected 2004
Positions include: Director, Arcelor Mittal Limited, Brazil; Director, J M Financial Limited, India; Director, BlackRock Hedge Funds; Chairman, Bioversity International, Rome; Past Treasurer, International Women’s Health Coalition, New York; Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Honorary Fellow of King’s College London.
Caroline Butler
Elected 2009
Positions include: Director, PAN Holding, Luxembourg 2008–; Chairman of China Children and Teenagers Fund – UK Council 2006-; Director, Lord North Street Limited Private Investment Office 2004–11; Managing Director, Head of Private Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank London 2001–4.
Richard Calvocoressi CBE
Elected 2008
Positions include: Director of The Henry Moore Foundation, 2007–; Keeper, then Director, of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1987–2007. Publications include Lucian Freud on Paper, 2008. Exhibitions include Lee Miller, National Portrait Gallery, 2005.
Professor Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA
Elected 2005
Positions include: Emeritus Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London; Tate Trustee, 1990–9. Exhibitions include Signs of Life, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2006. Commissions include The 5 Senses, HDI/Gerling Assurance, Hannover, 2010.
Professor Chris Gosden
Elected 2010
Positions include: Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford 2006-; Chairman of the Wainwright Fund, 2010–; Chairman of Trustees of Oxford Archaeology, 2010–; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 2007–; Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, 2006–; Fellow of the British Academy, 2005–.
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Antony Griffiths FBA
Elected 2010
Positions include: Deputy Keeper then Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, 1991–2011; Founding member of Print Quarterly 1984 and chairman of the charity 1993; Fellow of the British Academy, 2000. Publications include Prints for Books: Book Illustration in France 1760–1800, 2004.
Christopher Lloyd CVO
Elected 2005
Positions include: Patron, Living Paintings Trust, 2009–; Governor, Gainsborough’s House, 2005–; President, NADFAS, 2005–; Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures, 1988–2005. Publications include In Search of a Masterpiece, 2011 and Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolours, Drawings, 2011 and 2012.
James Lingwood
Elected 2008
Positions include: Trustee, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, 2003–; Co-director, Artangel, 1991– and Artangel Media, 2000–; Curator, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1986–90. Publications include Writings on Thomas Struth (ed), 2009.
Jonathan Marsden LVO FSA
Elected 2005
Positions include: Director of The Royal Collection 2010-; Hon Editorial Secretary, Furniture History Society, 2005–11; Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art, 1996–2010. Publications include Victoria & Albert: Art & Love, 2010.
Sally Osman
Elected 2007
Positions include: Director of Corporate Communications for Europe, Sony Europe 2011–; Integrated Marketing and Communications Consultant; Art Fund Museum Prize judge, 2009–10; Trustee, National Foundation for Youth Music, 2003–; Director of Communications, BBC, 1999–2007.
Philippa Glanville FSA
Elected 2011
Positions include: Senior Research Fellow, V&A, 2005-8; Academic Director, Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild Collection) 1999-2003; Associate Curator Gilbert Collection 2000-2003; Keeper of Metalwork, V&A 1989-1999; Assistant Keeper ,V&A 1980-1989; Head of Tudor & Stuart Dept , Museum of London 1972-1980; Assistant Curator, London Museum 1966-1972. Publications include London in Maps 1972; Silver in Tudor & Early Stuart England 1990; The Art of Drink 2007.
Professor Deborah Swallow
Elected 2007
Positions include: Märit Rausing Director, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2004–; Director of Collections and Keeper, Asian Department, V&A, 2001–4; Executive Trustee, Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at V&A; Trustee, the Indian National Trust for Art 7 Cultural Heritage (INTACH) UK.
Professor Lisa Tickner FBA
Elected 2010
Positions include: Fellow of the British Academy, 2008–; Visiting Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2007–; Emeritus Professor of Art History, Middlesex University, 2007–; Blue Plaques Panel, English Heritage 2007–. Publications include The Spectacle of Women: imagery of the suffrage campaign 1907-1914, 1988 and Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century, 2000.
Professor William Vaughan FSA
Elected 2005
Positions include: Pevsner Professor Emeritus of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London, 2003–. Senior Research Fellow, Tate Britain, 2009-. Exhibitions include Samuel Palmer, British Museum, 2005. Publications include Romanticism and Art, 1994.
Michael G Wilson OBE
Elected 2010
Positions include: Managing Director, Eon Productions, 1979–;Chair of the Science Museum Foundation. Publications include contributions to 100 Greatest Photographs, 2006; Pictorialism in California: Photographs 1900-1940, Getty Publications, 1994.
ADVISORY COUNCIL
- Professor Brian Allen FSA
- Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS
- John Ayers
- Professor Malcolm Baker FSA
- Dr Geoffrey Beard OBE FSA
- Claude Blair CVO OBE MA LittD FSA
- Sir Alan Bowness CBE
- Dr Andrew Burnett FBA
- John Cherry FSA
- John Christian FSA
- Joe Earle
- Sir Nicholas Goodison FBA FSA
- Professor Mark Haworth-Booth OBE
- Simon Swynfen Jervis FSA
- Professor Michael Kauffmann FBA FSA FMA
- Alastair Laing FSA
- Santina Levey DLitt FSA
- Jeremy Lewison
- Professor John Mack FSA
- Jeremy Montagu FSA
- Richard Morphet CBE
- Professor Dame Jessica Rawson DLitt FBA
- Sir Hugh Roberts KCVO FSA
- Professor Michael Rogers FBA FSA
- Sam Sachs
- Robert Skelton OBE
- Lord Stewartby PC RD LittD FBA FRSE FSA
- Richard Temple
- Dr Jon Whiteley
- Christopher Wilk
