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
- Dr Wendy Baron OBE
- Caroline Butler
- Richard Calvocoressi CBE
- Professor Michael Craig-Martin RA CBE
- Christopher Lloyd CVO
- James Lingwood
- Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn FBA FSA
- Jonathan Marsden LVO FSA
- Sally Osman
- Charles Sebag-Montefiore FCA FSA
- Timothy Stevens OBE
- Dr Deborah Swallow
- 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: 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; Member of The Blackstone Group European Advisory Board; 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: Chairman, Zuckerman & Associates Ltd; Director, Pall Mall Capital Ltd; Director, BlackRock Hedge Funds; Chairman, Bioversity International, Rome; Board member, International Women’s Health Coalition, NY.
Favorite ArtFunded work
I have always enjoyed the works of Duncan Grant. Charleston in its beautiful setting evokes the spirit of the '30s and it seems appropriate that the Treasurer should select an image of Maynard Keynes. It is delicate, poignant, and colourful and appeals to me as a painting in its own right.
Dr Wendy Baron OBE
Elected 1998
Positions include: Director, Government Art Collection, 1978–97. Exhibitions include: Sickert Paintings, Royal Academy, 1992. Publications include: Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, 2006; Perfect Moderns, 2000.
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.
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.
Favorite ArtFunded work
The Forest Fire (c 1505) by Piero di Cosimo was acquired in 1933 by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with the help of the Art Fund. It formed part of a series of pictures illustrating th early history of man based on a long poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe) by the Roman philosopher-poet Lucretius. It is the subject of much, often heated, debate, which is summarised in my Catalogue of the Earlier Italian Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum (1977).
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. Exhibitions include: Susan Hiller, Baltic, 2004.
Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn FBA FSA
Elected 2000
Positions include: Disney Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, University of Cambridge; Trustee, British Museum, 1991–2001; Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1990–2004; Master, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1986–97. Publications include: Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind, 2008.
Favorite ArtFunded work
Anselm Kiefer's Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom is more than a painting: festooned with ageing brambles and decaying roses, it seems to evoke a remote past, although in fact the painting depicts a larger-than life staute of Chairman Mao, such as Kiefer would have seen in China during the early 1990s. But the flowers have faded now. Like his earlier confrontations with his own twentieth century German inheritance, it seems momentous, tragic perhaps, and in this case certainly unresolved. This is a past, not yet faded from memory, not yet buried, yet returning to haunt us. Here a great artist interrogates the legacy of one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. As in many of Kiefer's paintings, time itself seems here an ominous presence. Perhaps time will tell.
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: Integrated Marketing and Communications Consultant; Fellow and former Vice Chairman, Royal Television Society; Art Fund Museum Prize judge, 2009; Head, Marketing, Communications and Audiences, BBC Television, 2005–6; Trustee, National Foundation for Youth Music, 2003–; Head, Communications, BBC, 2000–7; Head, Corporate and Public Relations, Channel 5, 1996–9; Publishing Director, Redwood Publishing, 1994–6.
Charles Sebag-Montefiore FCA FSA
Elected 2000
Positions include: Director, Ludgate Investments Ltd and other companies including Hightex Group plc; Hon Treasurer, Friends of the National Libraries; Friends of Lambeth Palace Library and the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust. Publications: contributions to Dictionary of National Biography.
Timothy Stevens OBE
Elected 2000
Positions include: Director, Gilbert Collection, 2002–8; Director, Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House, 2001–2; Assistant Director (Collections), Victoria and Albert Museum, 1994–2000, and posts in Cardiff and Liverpool.
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; Trustee, Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust; Trustee, Textile Conservation Centre Foundation.
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–; Trustee and Chairman, Deveopment Committee for the National Museum of Science and Industry; Chairman, National Media Museum, Bradford; 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
- Philippa Glanville FSA
- Sir Nicholas Goodison FBA FSA
- Antony Griffiths FBA
- 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
- Sir Denis Mahon CH CBE FBA
- Jeremy Montagu FSA
- Richard Morphet CBE
- Anthony Radcliffe FSA
- 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
