Charles Saumarez Smith

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Full Name	Charles Saumarez Smith
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	May 28, 1954(1954-05-28)
Age	70
Birthplace	Redlynch
Country	Australia
Birth City	Queensland
Horoscope	Gemini

Charles Saumarez Smith Biography

Charles Saumarez Smith is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on May 28, 1954 in Redlynch, Queensland, Australia.

In 1982, Saumarez Smith was appointed by Sir Roy Strong as an Assistant Keeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he helped to establish the V&A/RCA MA Course in the History of Design and was a contributor to The New Museology, published in 1989. In 1990, his PhD thesis was published by Faber and Faber under the title The Building of Castle Howard and was awarded the Alice David Hitchcock medallion. In the same year, he was appointed as Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 1994 he published a book on 18th century interior design, before becoming director of the National Portrait Gallery. There he more than doubled visitor figures by staging exhibitions by contemporary photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber and the fashion photographer Mario Testino. He also presided over the building of an extension to the NPG in 2000, the Ondaatje Wing designed by Sir Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones. From 2001 to 2002 Saumarez Smith held the Slade Professorship at Oxford University, where he lectured on “The State of the Museum”.

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.

Charles Saumarez Smith Net Worth

Charles Saumarez Smith is one of the richest Art Historian from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Charles Saumarez Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sir 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.

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Saumarez Smith was Knighted in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

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