Charles Saumarez Smith
| Charles Saumarez Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 May 1954 Redlynch, Wiltshire, England |
| Occupation | Art historian and museum director |
| Spouse(s) | Romilly Le Quesne Savage |
| Children | Ferdinand Saumarez Smith Otto Saumarez Smith |
| Parent(s) | William Hanbury Saumarez Smith Alice Elizabeth Harness Raven |
| Website | [1] |
Charles Robert Saumarez Smith CBE (born 28 May 1954) is a British cultural historian specialising in the history of art, design and architecture. He is the current Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1994 to 2002 and the Director of the National Gallery from 2002 to 2007. He has published various articles and books including The Company of Artists:The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and was a judge at the World Architecture Festival 2014 in Singapore and the Young Masters 2014 awards in London.
A great-grandson of the 19th-century Archbishop of Sydney William Saumarez Smith and son of William Hanbury Saumarez Smith, a former Indian civil servant, Charles Saumarez Smith was born in an old rectory in the Wiltshire village of Redlynch, near Salisbury. He was educated at Marlborough College, where a Gainsborough portrait belonging to the school first awakened his interest in art. He then studied history and history of art at King's College, Cambridge, gaining a double first, and, following graduation, was awarded a Henry Fellowship to study at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge Massachusetts. He studied for his doctorate under Michael Baxandall at the Warburg Institute, London, and his thesis was entitled "Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle and the architecture of Castle Howard" was awarded a PhD in 1986. Meanwhile, he was appointed Christie's Research Fellow in the History of Applied Arts at Christ's College, Cambridge and taught part-time in the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex.
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