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
- Christopher Lloyd CVO
- James Lingwood
- Jonathan Marsden LVO FSA
- Sally Osman
- Philippa Glanville
- Dr Deborah Swallow
- Professor Lisa Tickner
- Professor William Vaughan
- Michael G Wilson
CHAIRMAN
David Verey CBE
Elected 2004
David Verey CBE has been Chairman of the Art Fund since 2004. Positions include: Senior Adviser to Lazard & Co., Limited; Lead Non-Executive Director Department of Culture, Media and Sport; Director, Daily Mail and General Trust plc; Director, Sofina SA; Member of the Supervisory Board of Bank Gutmann, Trustee of the Pilgrim Trust; Trustee of the Teaching Awards Trust; Fellow of Eton College; Member of the Finance Committee of Trinity College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford; Trustee of Tate Gallery from 1992, Chairman from 1998 – 2004.
TREASURER
Paul Zuckerman
Elected 2004
Positions include: Chairman, Zuckerman & Associates Ltd; Director, Pall Mall Capital Ltd; Director, BlackRock Hedge Funds; Chairman, Bioversity International, Rome; Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London; Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Caroline Butler
Elected 2009
Positions include: Non-Executive Director Pan-Holding, Luxembourg 2008–; Director, Lord North Street Limited Private Investment Office 2004–; Managing Director, Head of Private Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank London 2001–4; Park Place Capital Ltd, 1998–2000; President and Founder, Auction Forum LTD/ Publishing Agent for The Art Newspaper USA and Corporate adviser to Art Forum Magazine, 1989–96. Publications include: Auction Forum USA/Forbes Magazine, Editor/Contributing Writer 1989–92.
Richard Calvocoressi
Elected 2008
Positions include: Director of The Henry Moore Foundation, 2007–; Keeper, then Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1987–2007; Curator (Modern Collection), Tate Gallery, 1979–87. Publications include: Lucian Freud on Paper, 2008; Kokoschka, 1992; Magritte, 1979. Exhibitions include: Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2005; Lee Miller, National Portrait Gallery, 2005.
Professor Michael Craig-Martin RA CBE
Elected 2005
Positions include: Emeritus Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2001–; Tate Trustee, 1990–9; British representative at 24th São Paulo Bienal, 1998. Exhibitions include: A is for Umbrella, Gagosian Gallery, London, 2007; Michael Craig-Martin: Works 1964–2006, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2006–7; Signs of Life, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2006. Commissions include: Parade and One World, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, 2008; Street Life, Woolwich Arsenal DLR Station, 2008.
Professor Chris Gosden
Elected 2010
Positions include: 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–; Executive Editor of World Archaeology, 2005-08; Dean of St Cross College, Oxford, 2004-06; Curator of The Phantom Museum: an exhibition of Sir Henry Wellcome’s collection exhibition, British Museum, 2003. Publications include: Origins of agriculture in western Central Asia: archaeological and environmental investigations in southern Turkmenistan, 2010; The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology, 2009; Rethinking Celtic Art, 2008; Who Owns Objects, 2006.
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Antony Griffiths
Elected 2010
Positions include: Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings, The British Museum, 1991 –2011; Chairman of Print Quarterly Publications and member of the editorial board of Print Quarterly, 2010–; Fellow of the British Academy, 2000–. Publications include: Prints for Books: book illustration in France 1760-1800, 2004; The Print in Stuart Britain 1603-1689, 1998; Prints and Printmaking an introduction to the history and techniques, 1996 (2nd. ed.).
Christopher Lloyd CVO
Elected 2005
Positions include: Patron, Living Paintings Trust, 2009–; Governor, Gainsborough’s House, 2005–; Trustee, Living Paintings Trust, 2005–; President, NADFAS, 2005–; Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures, 1988–2005; Assistant Keeper, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Department of Western Art), 1968–88. Publications include: Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Seventeenth Century Paintings in the Royal Collection, 2004; Camille Pissarro, 1981; In Search of a Masterpiece: An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland, 2011.
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; Member of the International Advisory Boards of the Museu de Serralves in Porto, the Atelier Calder in Saché and Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como. Publications include: Writings on Thomas Struth (ed), 2009; Roger Hiorns: Seizure, 2008; Thomas Schütte: Political Work (contrib), 2007. Recent exhibitions include: Susan Hiller, Baltic, 2004 and Thomas Struth, Photographs 1978-2010, Kuntshaus Zurich/Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2010-11.
Jonathan Marsden LVO FSA
Elected 2005
Positions include: Director of The Royal Collection; Hon Editorial Secretary, Furniture History Society, 2005–; Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art, 1996–2010; Historic Buildings Representative, National Trust (North Wales/ Thames and Chilterns regions), 1985–95. Publications include: The Wisdom of George the Third, 2005 (ed).
Sally Osman
Elected 2007
Positions include: Director of Corporate Communications for Europe, Sony Europe September 2011–; Integrated Marketing and Communications Consultant; Fellow and former Vice Chairman, Royal Television Society; Art Fund Museum Prize judge, 2009/10; Museum Prize Trustee 2011-; Trustee, National Foundation for Youth Music, 2003–; Director, Communications, BBC, 1999–2007; Head, Corporate and Public Relations, Channel 5, 1996–9; Publishing Director, Redwood Publishing, 1994–6; Head of Communications, BskyB, 1990-94.
Philippa Glanville
Elected 2011
Positions include: Trustee, Society of Antiquaries May 2011–; Trustee, Geffrye Museum; Trustee, Bishopsland Educational Trust; 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.
Dr Deborah Swallow
Elected 2006
Positions include: Märit Rausing Director, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2004–; Director of Collections and Keeper, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001–4; Executive Trustee, Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at Victoria and Albert Museum, 1989-; Chairman, Emslie Horniman Anthropological Fund; Trustee, UK Friends of the Hermitage; Trustee, Elmley Foundation.
Professor Lisa Tickner
Elected 2010
Positions include: Visiting Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2007–; Emeritus Professor of Art History, Middlesex University, 2007–; Fellow of the British Academy, 2008–; Publications Committee, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2004–10; British National Committee, CIHA, 1993-2000; Member of the English Heritage Blue Plaques Committee since 2007. Publications include: Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution, 2008; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 2003; Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century, 2000; The Spectacle of Women: imagery of the suffrage campaign 1907-1914, 1988.
Professor William Vaughan
Elected 2005
Positions include: Pevsner Professor Emeritus of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London, 2003–. Exhibitions include: Samuel Palmer, British Museum, 2005. Publications include: Romanticism and Art, 1994.
Michael G Wilson
Elected 2010
Positions include: Managing Director, Eon Productions, 1979–; Chairman, the Albert R & Dana Broccoli Charitable Foundation, Los Angeles; Chairman, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation; Trustee and Chairman, Development Committee for the National Museum of Science and Industry; Chairman, National Media Museum, Bradford; Trustee, Carnegie Science Foundation; Trustee, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California: Trustee, Cape Farewell, London; Trustee of Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1993–99. Publications include: contributions to 100 Greatest Photographs, 2006.
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
