Dr Brian Allen

Brian Allen was Director of Yale University’s Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London for twenty year and has published widely on art of the 17th to 19th centuries. He is now (non-executive) Chairman of the London fine art dealers Hazlitt Ltd.He was Chairman of the Art Fund and is currently a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and several other regional museums. Among his many appointments he is a member of the Art’s Council’s Acceptance-in-Lieu panel and sits on the Advisory Panel of the National Heritage Memorial Fund.