Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport Minutes of Evidence


Annex C

Membership of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest during 2005-06

LORD INGLEWOOD (CHAIRMAN)

  Lord Inglewood, previously Richard Vane, has been called to the Bar and is also a Chartered Surveyor. Between 1989-94 and 1999-2004 he was Conservative Spokesman on Legal Affairs in the European Parliament. He has chaired the Development Control Committee of the Lake District Planning Board and is Chairman of Cumbrian Newspaper Group, and of Carr's Milling Industries plc. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department of National Heritage between 1995-97. In 1999 he was elected an hereditary member of the House of Lords, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) in 2003. He owns and lives at Hutton-in-the-Forest, his family's historic house in Cumbria.

Appointed 1 December 2003: appointment expires on 30 November 2007

AMANDA ARROWSMITH

  A qualified and registered archivist, Ms Arrowsmith worked in archives for Northumberland, Berkshire and Suffolk County Councils before being appointed Director of Libraries and Heritage for Suffolk in 1990, a post from which she retired in March 2001. She has served as a member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Public Records and is a past president of the Society of Archivists. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Friends of the National Libraries, the East of England Cultural Consortium and the Eastern Region Committee of the South East Museums Service, and has chaired the Heritage Lottery Fund Committee for the East of England.

Appointed 1 February 2002; resigned 5 May 2006

PROFESSOR DAVID EKSERDJIAN

  Professor of the History of Art and Film, University of Leicester. He is an expert on Italian renaissance paintings and drawings and the author of Correggio (1997) and Parmigianino (forthcoming). Formerly a Fellow of Balliol College Oxford (1983-86) and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1987-91), he worked in the Old Master Paintings and Master Drawings departments at Christie's in London from 1991-1997, and, in addition, from 1992 was Head of European Sculpture and Works of Art Department there. He was editor of Apollo magazine from 1997-2004. He has organised and contributed to the catalogues of numerous exhibitions, including Old Master Paintings from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Royal Academy 1988) and Andrea Mantegna (Royal Academy, London and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992). In 2004, he was made an Honorary Citizen of the town of Correggio. In September 2006, he became a Trustee of the National Gallery.

Appointed 14 November 2002: appointment expires 13 November 2006

JOHNNY VAN HAEFTEN

  Chairman and Managing Director of Johnny Van Haeften Ltd, the gallery specialising in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Old Master pictures, which he has run for 30 years, since leaving Christie's. He is also on the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of The European Fine Art Foundation and is an advisor to the Fine Art Fund. He was Vice Chairman of the Society of London Art Dealers, a former council member of the British Antique Dealers Association, and a former Chairman of Pictura, the pictures section of the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht.

Appointed 28 June 2001: appointment expires on 27 June 2008

DR CATHERINE JOHNS

  Former curator of the Romano-British collections at the British Museum. She was trained in prehistoric and Roman Archaeology, and has published and lectured extensively, especially on Roman provincial art, jewellery and silver. Her publications include Sex or Symbol; erotic images of Greece and Rome (1982), The jewellery of Roman Britain (1996), museum catalogues of Roman treasure finds, and more than a hundred articles in scholarly journals. She has served on the committees of the Society of Antiquaries, the Roman Society, and the British Archaeological Association. She was a former Chair of the Society of Jewellery Historians and is currently a trustee of the Roman Research Trust.

Appointed 19 February 2003: appointment expires on 18 February 2007

TIM KNOX

  Director of Sir John Soane's Museum from 1 May 2005. Head Curator of the National Trust from 2002-05 and its Architectural Historian previously. Between 1989 and 1995 he was Assistant Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection. He is a Trustee of the Pilgrim Trust and of the Stowe House Preservation Trust. He was appointed Historic Buildings Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2005 and is a member of the Conseil scientifique de l'établissement public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles. He was a founding member of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust, and its Chairman 2000-05. He regularly lectures and writes on aspects of architecture, sculpture and the history of collecting.

Appointed 14 March 2002: appointment expires 13 March 2009

MARTIN LEVY

  Chairman of H Blairman & Sons. He was Chairman of the British Antique Dealer's Association 1993-94, Council member of the Furniture History Society 1994-96, and is a member of the Collections Committee for the Jewish Museum and a member of the Spoliation Advisory Panel. He has been published by various journals including Furniture History, Apollo and Country Life.

Appointed 1 March 1997: appointment expires on 28 February 2007

PROFESSOR PAMELA ROBERTSON

  Currently Senior Curator of the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (since 1998). She was appointed Professor of Mackintosh Studies in 2003. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Interiors and Collections Committee of the National Trust for Scotland, and Chair of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society. Previously, she was a member of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland (1998 to 2002). She has organised a range of exhibitions and her publications include Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Architectural Papers (ed.;1990); Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Art is the Flower (1995); The Chronycle: The Letters of CR Mackintosh to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (2001)

Appointed 2 December 2003: appointment expires on 1 December 2007

September 2006






 
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