Trustee

Christopher Baker

Christopher is an art historian and curator and was a Director at the National Galleries of Scotland for ten years; he has also worked at Christ Church, Oxford, and the National Gallery in London. He is the 2022-23 Paul Mellon Rome Fellow and has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale University.

Christopher has published and lectured widely on eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and European art and the history of collecting, and organised numerous exhibitions in the UK and internationally. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art, the Spoliation Advisory Panel and the Recognition Committee (Museums Galleries Scotland), as well as being a Trustee of the Compton Verney Collection Settlement.