AIL PANEL MEMBERS
One member of the AIL Panel was 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 nine new members.
Chairman of AIL Panel.
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.
Specialist in British portraiture and a Trustee of the National
Portrait Gallery.
Formerly Director of The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art and previously 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.
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 previously
International Director and Deputy Chairman, Post-War and
Contemporary Art, Europe, at Christie’s.
Nicholas Penny
Formerly Director of the National Gallery. Worked as a
curator in the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Author of books on and
catalogues of sculpture as well as paintings.
James Stourton
Formerly 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.
Giles Waterfield
Independent curator and writer. Formerly Director, Dulwich
Picture Gallery; formerly Expert Adviser and then Trustee,
Heritage Lottery Fund. Trustee, Emery Walker Trust and
Garden Museum. Author, The People’s Galleries: Art
Museums and Exhibitions in Britain 1800 – 1914 ((2015)
Joan Winterkorn
Archives and manuscripts consultant. Formerly a Director
of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Barnaby Wright
Daniel Katz Curator of 20th-century art at The Courtauld
Gallery, London.