Gerard Vaughan
- January 11, 2024
- Art Historian
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Gerard Vaughan Biography
| Birthday | Sep 27 |
| Birth Year | 1953 |
Gerard Vaughan is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on September 27, 1953 in Devonport, Australia. Vaughan is a native of Devonport, Tasmania in 1953. He studied through Melbourne through Christian Brothers College, St Kilda and the University of Melbourne where he was awarded an honours Master of Arts with Honours and an MA of Arts, writing his thesis on French artist and symbolist Maurice Denis.
The year 2014 saw Vaughan became director at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in place of Ron Radford who had headed NGA for the previous ten years.
Vaughan appears in the 2019 movie D’art directed by Karl von Möller
The year 1999 saw Vaughan came back to Australia and was appointed director and chief executive officer for the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). While at the NGV it was his goal to raise funds by the private market in particular, for the NGV’s 1999-2003 renovation program, which included Mario Bellini’s revision the Sir Roy Grounds Principal building from the 1960s and a brand-new facility for Australian art located in the nearby Federation Square, by Lab Partners. He also devoted his attention to the foundation of the gallery, increasing their capital resources from 9 million dollars in 1999, to fifty million dollars in the 2011 and assisting in the financing of significant acquisitions. As of 2011, Vaughan became a member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours, for his contributions to the arts.
Gerard Vaughan Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Art Historian |
| House | Living in own house. |
Gerard Vaughan is one of the richest Art Historian from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gerard Vaughan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Gerard Ronald Vaughan AM (born 27 September 1953) is an Australian curator and art historian. Director of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1999 to 2012 and the director at the National Gallery of Australia from 2014 until 2018.
The year 1981 was the time that Vaughan completed his doctoral studies with the University of Oxford on the collection of Roman antiquities in the 18th century of England with a focus on the antiquary and collector Charles Townley, in the context of neoclassical taste. He was in England for 18 years, and held various academic positions in Oxford, including visiting scholar and the resident scholar at Wolfson College, London-based consultant for the Felton Bequest at the National Gallery of Victoria as well as private secretary to vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Sir Patrick Neill and, then Sir Richard Southwood. The year 1991 saw Vaughan became deputy director for Campaign for Oxford, the university’s appeal for fundraising. in 1994 Vaughan was named the first Director of the British Museum Development Trust, with the responsibility of securing funding for Norman Foster’s Great Court.
In September 2017, Vaughan announced his retirement, allowing the NGA a year to find his successor. In April 2018, it was announced that Nick Mitzevich, the director of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), would take over at the start of July.
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