Brian Sewell
| Brian Sewell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Brian Perkins 15 July 1931 London, England, UK |
| Died |
19 September 2015 (aged 84) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London |
| Occupation | Art critic, journalist, art dealer |
| Parent(s) |
Philip Heseltine (father) Mary Jessica Perkins (mother) |
| Military career | |
| Rank | Second lieutenant |
| Unit | Royal Army Service Corps |
 The roles of religion and politics in art, Brian Sewell interview, 3:40, 2nd of 31 parts, Web of Stories. |
Brian Sewell (/ˈsjuːəl, -uːl/; 15 July 1931 – 19 September 2015) was an English art critic and media personality. He wrote for the London Evening Standard and was noted for his acerbic view of conceptual art and the Turner Prize.The Guardian described him as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic", while the Standard called him the "nation’s best art critic", and Artnet News called him the United Kingdom's "most famous and controversial art critic".
Sewell was born on 15 July 1931. The man who in later life he claimed to have been his father, composer Philip Heseltine, better known as Peter Warlock, died in unexplained circumstances seven months before he was born. Brian was brought up in Kensington, west London, and elsewhere by his mother, Mary Jessica Perkins, who married Robert Sewell in 1936.
He was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hampstead, northwest London. Offered a place to read history at Oxford, Sewell instead chose to enter the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where his tutors included Anthony Blunt, who became his close friend.
Sewell graduated in 1957 and worked at Christie's auction house, specialising in Old Master paintings and drawings. After leaving Christie's he became an art dealer. He completed his National Service as a commissioned officer in the Royal Army Service Corps. He took LSD as a young man, describing it in 2007 as a drug "for people of my age. It's wonderful. The one thing you could not do, however, was drip it into your eyeballs. It sent you absolutely bonkers."
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