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.
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.
Patrick Elliott
Senior Curator, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh.
Katharine Eustace
Formerly Curator 20th Century Collections, National Portrait
Gallery and previously Curator Sculpture (1540 to the Present
Day) and 20th Century Collections, Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford. Editor, Sculpture Journal (2004-2014).
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.
David Scrase
Formerly Assistant Director Collections, Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge.
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.
Barnaby Wright
Daniel Katz Curator of 20th-century art at The Courtauld
Gallery, London.
Christopher Wright OBE Formerly Keeper of Manuscripts, British Library. Member of
RCEWA (Reviewing Committee for Export of Works of Arts).