AIL PANEL MEMBERS
Five members of the AIL Panel were appointed by the Museums, Libraries and Archives
Council (MLA) which administered the AIL scheme prior to its transfer to Arts Council
England in October 2011. Arts Council England appointed the Chairman following
consultation with DCMS and also appointed six new members.
Chairman, of AIL Panel: Appointed 21 March 2013.
Edward Harley
Director (Charities) at Cazenove Capital Management for over
a decade and recently retired from his post as President of the
Historic Houses Association. Trustee of Samuel Courtauld
Trust and President of Friends of Herefordshire Record Office.
Professor Brian Allen
Chairman, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox.
Formerly, Director of The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art and before that Professor of Art History at Yale
University.
Lucinda Compton
Conservator, member of the Historic Houses Association,
former committee member of the British Antique Restorers’
Association.
Patrick Elliott
Senior Curator, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh.
Kate Eustace
Formerly, Curator 20th century portraits, National Portrait
Gallery. Editor of the Sculpture Journal.
Jonathan Harris
Dealer and collector Formerly Director Harris Lindsay Gallery,
London. Specialist in English and Continental furniture.
Pilar Ordovas
Owner, Ordovas Gallery.
Formerly, Director at Gagosian Gallery and before that
International Director and Deputy Chairman, Post-War and
Contemporary Art, Europe, at Christie’s.
David Scrase
David Scrase, Assistant Director Collections, Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge.
James Stourton
Recently retired Chairman of Sotheby’s UK.
Author: Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting since 1945
(2007), The British as Art Collectors: From the Tudors to the
Present (2012), Great Houses of London (2012).
Robert Upstone
Director, Modern British Art, the Fine Art Society. Formerly
Curator of Modern British Art at Tate Britain.
Barnaby Wright
Daniel Katz Curator of 20th century art at The Courtauld
Gallery, University of London.
Christopher Wright OBE Formerly, Keeper of Manuscripts, British Library, member of
RCEWA (Reviewing Committee for Export of Works of Arts).