15 July 2003
The Prime Minister has today appointed Mr Richard Dorment as a Trustee of the Wallace Collection for a term of four years.
Biographical Notes
Richard Dorment has been the art critic for the Daily Telegraph since 1986 and was curator of the James McNeill Whistler Exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1994. A former keeper at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he has written widely on British 18th and 19th century painting and sculpture. He is also a past member of the judging panel for the Turner Prize, a member of the Advisory Committee for the Government Art Collection since 1996, and member of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art from 1996 to 2000.
He has not carried out any political activity in the last five years.
Notes for Editors
The Wallace Collection is the custodian of Lady Wallace’s collection of paintings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armour and other works or art bequeathed to the nation in 1897.
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