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Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures

Professor Anthony Blunt, PhD MA FSA FBA 1945-1973 - Formerly Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO, until he was stripped of his titles after being found to be a spy.


Jane, Lady Roberts

On 13 December 1975, she married Hugh Roberts (now Sir Hugh Roberts), who was the Director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art until April 2010.

Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art

He is also concurrently Director of the Royal Collection for which he chairs a management committee of professional curators and administrators, including Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.


see also

Abraham van der Doort

George Vertue's notes on the former Royal Collection were published in 1757, which is the reason that, following its long series of the Vertue notebooks, a collated edition of the four manuscript catalogues was published by the Walpole Society as its Volume 37 (1958–60); it was edited by Millar, who later followed van der Doort as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.